NILS REINHARDT SUCCESFULLY COMPLETED HIS POSTGRADUATE STUDIES AT THE RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY

We are glad to announce that Nils Reinhardt, one of our few foreign members of the Student Chapter, was granted a Master´s degree in Applied Geosciences at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany.

He first came into contact with the Student Chapter while carrying out a year-long Erasmus stay at the faculty of geology of the UB. After moving back to Germany to pursue his Master´s degree studies in Aachen, he then opted to carry out his master thesis project at the UB in collaboration with the RWTH University.

His project “Geochemistry and mineralogy of rare earth elements in bauxite ores of the Llacuna-Medion area, Catalonia, Spain” was supervised by Dr.Joaquín Proenza as well as Dr.Thomas Aiglsperger andDr. Cristina Villanova-de-Benavent, two of the founding members of the Student Chapter. The study focused on the distribution patterns of rare earth elements in Spanish karst bauxite deposits of the Catalan Coastal Range and also represents the first-ever qualitative description of the rare earth mineralogy in these deposits.