After receiving my doctorate from the University of Vienna (Austria) in 2013, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Free University of Brussels (VUB; Belgium), and during my time there, I taught a module on Solar System and Craters. From the VUB, I moved to the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, where I was a postdoctoral researcher for two years before being appointed as a senior lecturer. I joined UWC in 2021. I have taught at university level for 10 years at undergraduate and Honours levels, including preparation of curriculum and organization of numerous field trips to relevant geological locations and mines around South Africa. In 2020, I won first prize in category of “Innovation in Technology Enhanced Learning” in the UFS Excellence in Learning and Teaching Awards. I have collaborated with De Beers, Kumba Iron Ore, Exxaro, and VBKOM for teaching materials for students. Twelve Honours students have successfully completed research projects under my supervision, two with distinctions.
Currently, I am lecturing the modules APG 231 (Remote Sensing), APG 321 (Economic Geology and Exploration Geology), and APG 322 (Field trip), and APG 721 (African Geology). I also serve as the coordinator of Honours reserarch projects. I am currently supervising 1 Honours student research project, utilizing a contract with De Beers Corp. I am supervising 3 Master's students and a doctoral student, and 1 additional student is in the final stages of receiving his degree.
Peer-reviewed publications:
1. Koeberl, C., Schultz, T., and Huber, M.S., In Press. Precambrian Impact Structures and Ejecta on Earth: A Review. Precambrian Research.
2. Huber, M.S., Kovaleva, E., Zamyatin, D.A., Davletshina, A.A., Fernandez, V., and Salge, T., 2024. Post-cratering melting of target rocks at the impact melt contact: observations from the Vredefort impact structure, South Africa. Chemical Geology.
3. McKibbin, S., Hecht, L., Makarona, C., Huber, M.S., Terryn, H., and Claeys, P., 2024. Forsteritic olivine in EH (enstatite) chondrite meteorites: A record of nebular, metamorphic, and crystal-lattice diffusion effects. Meteoritics and Planetary Science.
4. Fourie F.D., Huber M.S., Kovaleva E., Clark M.D., 2023, Shallow depth extent of the Lesutoskraal granophyre dike in the Vredefort impact structure: Geophysical surveys and trenching data. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 58:1345-1364.
5. Huber M.S., Kovaleva E., Rae A.S.P., Tisato N., Gulick S.P.S., 2023, Can Archean Impact Structures Be Discovered? A Case Study From Earth's Largest, Most Deeply Eroded Impact Structure. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 128:-.
6. Huber M.S., Kovaleva E., Clark M.D., Riller U., Fourie F.D., 2022, Evidence from the Vredefort Granophyre Dikes points to crustal relaxation following basin-size impact cratering. Icarus, 374:-.
7. Huber M.S., Roelofse F., Koeberl C., Tredoux M., 2021, New field, geochemical, and petrographic evidence from the Bon Accord nickel body: Contamination of a komatiite by deep mantle or meteorite source?. Special Paper of the Geological Society of America, 550:333-349.
8. Huber M.S., Kovaleva E., Clark M.D., Prevec S.A., 2021, Inhomogeneous distribution of lithic clasts within the Daskop granophyre dike, Vredefort impact structure: Implications for emplacement of impact melt in large impact structures. Special Paper of the Geological Society of America, 550:255-267.
9. Clark M.D., Kovaleva E., Huber M.S., Fourie F., Harris C., 2021, Post-impact faulting of the holfontein granophyre dike of the vredefort impact structure, south africa, inferred from remote sensing, geophysics, and geochemistry. Geosciences (Switzerland), 11:1-27.
10. Kovaleva E., Huber M.S., Dixon R., 2020, Material mixing in shock-induced pseudotachylites, Vredefort impact structure, South Africa. Lithos, 370-371:-.
11. Goderis S., Soens B., Huber M.S., McKibbin S., van Ginneken M., Van Maldeghem F., Debaille V., Greenwood R.C., Franchi I.A., Cnudde V., Van Malderen S., Vanhaecke F., Koeberl C., Topa D., Claeys P., 2020, Cosmic spherules from Widerøefjellet, Sør Rondane Mountains (East Antarctica). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 270:112-143.
12. Huber M.S., Kovaleva E., Riller U., 2020, Modeling the geochemical evolution of impact melts in terrestrial impact basins: Vredefort granophyre dikes and Sudbury offset dikes. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 55:2320-2337.
13. Huber M.S., Kovaleva E., 2020, Identifying gaps in the investigation of the vredefort granophyre dikes: A systematic literature review. Geosciences (Switzerland), 10:1-21.
14. Huber M.S., Koeberl C., Smith F.C., Glass B.P., Mundil R., McDonald I., 2019, Geochemistry of a confirmed Precambrian impact ejecta deposit: The Grænsesø spherule layer, South Greenland. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 54:2254-2272.
15. Huber M.S., Kovaleva E., 2019, Microstructural dynamics of central uplifts: Reidite offset by zircon twins at the Woodleigh impact structure, Australia. Geology, 47:e465-e465.
16. Kovaleva E., Huber M.S., Roelofse F., Tredoux M., Praekelt H., 2019, Reply to the comment made by W.U. Reimold on “Pseudotachylite vein hosted by a clast in the Vredefort Granophyre: Characterization, origin and relevance” by E. Kovaleva et al., South African journal of geology, 2018, 121, 51-68. doi:10.25131/sajg.121.0002. South African Journal of Geology, 122:109-115.
17. Kovaleva E., Huber M.S., Habler G., Zamyatin D.A., 2019, Zircon microstructures record deformation history of shock- and tectonically-generated pseudotachylites: A case study from the vredefort impact structure, South Africa. Journal of Petrology, 60:2529-2546.
18. Fourie F.D., Huber M.S., Kovaleva E., 2019, Geophysical characterization of the Daskop granophyre dyke and surrounding host rocks, Vredefort impact structure, South Africa. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 54:1579-1593.
19. Mueller S.B., Kueppers U., Huber M.S., Hess K.-U., Poesges G., Ruthensteiner B., Dingwell D.B., 2018, Aggregation in particle rich environments: a textural study of examples from volcanic eruptions, meteorite impacts, and fluidized bed processing. Bulletin of Volcanology, 80:-.
20. Huber M.S., Byerly G.R., 2018, Volcanological and petrogenetic characteristics of komatiites of the 3.3 ga saw mill complex, weltevreden formation, barberton greenstone belt, South Africa. South African Journal of Geology, 121:463-486.
21. Kovaleva E., Huber M.S., Roelofse F., Tredoux M., Praekelt H., 2018, Pseudotachylite vein hosted by a clast in the Vredefort Granophyre: characterization, origin and relevance. South African Journal of Geology, 121:51-68.
22. Kovaleva E., Huber M.S., Zaccarini F., 2018, Petrography and geochemistry of coarse-crystalline veins within vredefort granophyre, vredefort impact structure, South Africa. South African Journal of Geology, 121:383-402.
23. Kovaleva E., Huber M.S., Fourie F., Pittarello L., 2018, Comparative study of pseudotachylite microstructures in felsic and mafic rocks from the vredefort impact structure, South Africa. Implications for the experimental studies. South African Journal of Geology, 121:403-420.
24. Huber M.S., Koeberl C., 2017, Accretionary lapilli from the Sudbury impact event. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 52:1257-1276.
25. Dehant V., Asael D., Baland R.M., Baludikay B.K., Beghin J., Belza J., Beuthe M., Breuer D., Chernonozhkin S., Claeys P., Cornet Y., Cornet L., Coyette A., Debaille V., Delvigne C., Deproost M.H., De WInter N., Duchemin C., El Atrassi F., François C., De Keyser J., Gillmann C., Gloesener E., Goderis S., Hidaka Y., Höning D., Huber M., Hublet G., Javaux E.J., Karatekin Ö., Kodolanyi J., Revilla L.L., Maes L., Maggiolo R., Mattielli N., Maurice M., McKibbin S., Morschhauser A., Neumann W., Noack L., Pham L.B.S., Pittarello L., Plesa A.C., Rivoldini A., Robert S., Rosenblatt P., Spohn T., Storme J.-Y., Tosi N., Trinh A., Valdes M., Vandaele A.C., Vanhaecke F., Van Hoolst T., Van Roosbroek N., Wilquet V., Yseboodt M., 2016, PLANET TOPERS: Planets, Tracing the Transfer, Origin, Preservation, and Evolution of their ReservoirS. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, 46:369-384.
26. Losiak A., Wild E.M., Geppert W.D., Huber M.S., Jõeleht A., Kriiska A., Kulkov A., Paavel K., Pirkovic I., Plado J., Steier P., Välja R., Wilk J., Wisniowski T., Zanetti M., 2016, Dating a small impact crater: An age of Kaali crater (Estonia) based on charcoal emplaced within proximal ejecta. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 51:681-695.
27. Losiak A., Golebiowska I., Ferrière L., Wojciechowski J., Huber M.S., Koeberl C., 2016, WIP: A Web-based program for indexing planar features in quartz grains and its usage. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 51:647-662.
28. Huber M.S., McDonald I., Koeberl C., 2014, Petrography and geochemistry of ejecta from the Sudbury impact event. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 49:1749-1768.
29. Huber M.S., Črne A.E., McDonald I., Hecht L., Melezhik V.A., Koeberl C., 2014, Erratum to Impact spherules from Karelia, Russia: Possible ejecta from the 2.02 Ga Vredefort impact event. Geology, 42:714.
30. Huber M.S., črne A.E., McDonald I., Hecht L., Melezhik V.A., Koeberl C., 2014, Impact spherules from Karelia, Russia: Possible ejecta from the 2.02 Ga Vredefort impact event. Geology, 42:375-378.
31. Galiazzo M.A., Bazsó A., Huber M.S., Losiak A., Dvorak R., Koeberl C., 2013, A statistical dynamical study of meteorite impactors: A case study based on parameters derived from the Bosumtwi impact event. Astronomische Nachrichten, 334:936-939.
32. Huber M.S., Ferrière L., Losiak A., Koeberl C., 2011, ANIE: A mathematical algorithm for automated indexing of planar deformation features in quartz grains. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 46:1418-1424.