Peter Ulmer
Professor
Department of Earth Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Peter Ulmer is Titularprofessor since June 2003 at the Institute for Mineralogy and Petrology at ETH Zurich. Peter Ulmer is born in 1958 in Adliswil/ZH. He did his undergraduate at ETH Zurich, graduating in 1983 in geology, and finished in igneous petrology in 1986. From 1986 - 1988 he was postdoctoral fellow at the Geophysical Laboratory, Canregie Institution of Washington, where he performed high-pressure experimental research. In 1989 he returned to ETH Zuich as a lecturer at the Insitute for Mineralogy and Petrology, where he obtained his habilitation in 2001.
Research Interest
Igneous Petrology and Geochemistry; Experimental Petrology; Magma Rheology und Volcanology; Mineralphysics
