Max W. Schmidt
Assistent Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Max Schmidt has been a tenure track Assistent Professor since August 2001, and Full Professor since June 2006 at the Institute for Mineralogy and Petrology (dual professorship ETH / University Zurich). Max Schmidt was born in 1964 in Innsbruck, Austria. His undergraduate studies were at Kiel, Germany, his Masters in Geology (1988) and his Ph.D. (1992) in Experimental Petrology at ETH Zurich. During his PhD, he obtained an ETH scholarship for 6 months at Arizona State University. Afterwards, a SNF-fellowship allowed for a year of Post-Doc at Clermont-Ferrand, France. In 1994 he started a tenure track research position at Bayreuth, Germany, where he was in charge of the large volume high-pressure laboratories. In 1996, he obtained a (permanent) CNRS research position at Clermont-Ferrand where he habilitated (1999) and was awarded the "médaille de bronze" (2000). Sabbatical at RSES at the Australian National University in 2000/2001.
Research Interest
Thermodynamic; Crystallographic
