Olivier Bachmann
Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Olivier Bachmann has been a Professor of Magmatic Petrology at the Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology in the Department of Earth Sciences since 2012. He was born in Geneva in 1973. Olivier Bachmann obtained a BSc in earth sciences at the University of Geneva in 1995, an MSc in 1997 and a PhD in Volcanology-Petrology-Geochronology in 2000. From 2001 to 2003 he was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. In 2003 he returned to Switzerland to work as a lecturer at the University of Geneva until 2007. In 2007 he was appointed as an Assistant Professor and in 2011 an Associate Professor at the University of Washington.
Research Interest
The causes and consequences of large, explosive, volcanic eruptions; Magmatic differentiation; Magma reservoir dynamics; Controls on eruptive styles.
