Contact
Prof. Dr. Anton Wallner
Head Accelerator Mass Spectrometry and Isotope Research
Head
anton.wallner
hzdr.de
Phone: +49 351 260 3274
Teaching and Thesis Projects
Teaching:
TU Dresden: Dating (C-14), Environmental Research and Supernovae (Prof. Wallner)
Tue. 14:50 - 16:20, ASB/328
Exercises: Tue. before lecture up for discussion, ASB/328
TU Dresden: Lab Course IKTP (Dr. Rugel)
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at DREAMS
Dates by arrangement
TU Chemnitz: Nuclear & particle physics (Dr. Lachner)
Dates:
Nuclear & particle physics 2022/23
Nuclear & particle physics 2024
Nuclear & particle physics 2025/2026
Thesis:
You would like to do a thesis in nuclear physics, astrophysics, environmental research, geology or in applied chemistry or physics?
We are happy to welcome motivated national and international students!
Write us or come around, we are happy about your visit.
Available topics (German possible, linked contacts):
Astrophysics
Nuclear physics
Environmental physics
- Radionuclides in Greenland ice
- Nuclear fallout in Dresden
- Global nuclear fallout in a deep-ocean ferromanganese crust
- Mass extinction events traced by Pu-244
- Tracing the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation by Sr-90 and U-236 signatures from Sellafield, La Hague, and global fallout in the North Atlantic (PhD, MSc)
- Tracing the anthropocenic history of water transport in the Indian ocean using Global fall-out radionuclides (PhD)
- Comparing exotic radionuclide tracers in the the deep water formation region of the Labrador sea (MSc)
- Exploring Am-241/Pu-241 dating in environmental matrixes (PhD, MSc)
Geology
- Cosmic-ray produced Be-10 to understand the growth of underwater metallic rocks
- Tracing the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation by Sr-90 and U-236 signatures from Sellafield, La Hague, and global fallout in the North Atlantic (PhD, MSc)
- Tracing the anthropocenic history of water transport in the Indian ocean using Global fall-out radionuclides (PhD)
- Comparing exotic radionuclide tracers in the the deep water formation region of the Labrador sea (MSc)
Ion beam physics
Current thesis projects:
Laurenz Widermann: Development of Hf-182 AMS measurements for nuclear astrophysics (PhD, TU Dresden)
Alexander Wieser: Development of Ion Laser Interaction Mass Spectrometry for the detection of Cs-135 and Cs-137 by AMS (Dual-PhD, TU Dresden und Uni Wien)
Janis Wolf: Characterization of Pa-231 in environmental samples (PhD, TU Dresden)
Sebastian Zwickel: Interstellar and cosmogenic radioisotopes on the surface of the Moon (PhD, TU Dresden)
Finished thesis projects:
Shruti Dabke: Assessment of chemical binding sites of anthropogenic actinides in soil and sediment samples using selective leaching (M.Sc., 2026, TU Dresden)
Annika Seltmann: The first Al-26/Be-10 time profile in the Greenland ice core NEEM (B.Sc., 2026, TU Dresden)
Annabel Rolofs: Search for Interstellar Fe-60 in Antarctic Ice Tracing the Local Interstellar Cloud (M.Sc., 2024, Uni Bonn)
Josua Vahle: Bestimmung der kosmogenen Radionuklide Be-10 und Al-26 in ausgewählten Mondproben mittels Beschleuniger-Massenspektrometrie (B.Sc., 2023, TU Dresden)
Dominik Koll: A 10-million year time profile of interstellar influx to Earth mapped through supernova Fe-60 and r-process Pu-244 (PhD, 2023, TU Dresden und ANU)
