Usage of ThermoFisher Neoma ICP-MS and IsotopX Phoenix TIMS instruments.
Sample preparation for TIMS, SIMS, and LA-ICP-MS.
Workflow in clean laboratories and manipulation of dangerous substances.
Python: experience with Pandas, NumPy, and Plotly libraries to organize, operate, and plot large data sets, and Tkinter library to generate user-friendly and interactive Graphic User Interface for python codes.
QGIS: Geographic information system for spatial data analysis and composition of graphical maps.
LaTeX: Document generator for scientific content using LyX.
Inkscape: Vector graphics editor for creation of complex figures and/or posters.
Microsoft Office Pack
Blob3D to characterize morphological aspects in 3D of features scanned using micro high-resolution x-ray computed tomography.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7886-1324
Chen, R., Wu, S., Wang, H., Senger, M. H., Paul, A.N., Sylvester, P., Yang, Y., Yang, J., Wu, F. 2024. Baddeleyite SK10-3: A Natural Reference Material for Microbeam U-Pb Geochronology and Hf Isotopic Measurements. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research. http://doi.org/10.1111/ggr.12591
Naipauer, M.; Ghiglione, M.; Senger, M.H.; Albano, J.; Aramendía, I.; Ronda, G.; Suárez, R.; Valencia, V.; Ramos, M. 2024. Early development of the Patagonian fold and thrust belt and the onset of foreland sedimentation in the Austral-Magallanes basin. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 104721. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2023.104721
Senger, M.H.; Davies, J.H.F.L; Ovtcharova, M.; Beukes, N.; Gumsley, A.; Gaynor, S.P.; Ulianov, A.; Ngobeli, R.; Schaltegger, U. 2023. Improving the chronostratigraphic framework of the Transvaal Supergroup (South Africa) through in-situ and high-precision U-Pb geochronology. Precambrian Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2023.107070.
Barcelona, H., Senger, M.H., Yagupsky, D., 2021. Resource assessment of the Copahue Geothermal Field. Geothermics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2020.101987.
Barcelona, H.; Maffucci, R.; Yagupsky, D.; Senger, M.H.; and Bigi, S. 2020. Discrete fracture network model of the vapor zone leakages at the Copahue geothermal field. Journal of Structural Geology, 104155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2020.104155.
Barcelona, H.; Yagupsky, D.; Vigide, N. and Senger, M.H. 2019. Structural model and slip-dilational tendency analysis at the Copahue Geothermal System: Inferences over the reservoir geometry. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2019.03.007.
Senger, M.H.; Lopes, V.; Kroeger, E.; Anderson, B.N.; Ketcham, R.A.; Ghoshal, G.; Pullen, A.; Ibanez-Mejia, M. 2025. Assessing the natural bias imparted by riverine dynamics in the detrital record in the Bermejo River (Argentina). GSA Connects 2025, San Antonio, USA, 19-22 October 2025.
Lopes, V. L.; Senger, M.H.; Kroeger, E.; Dettman, A.; Campbell, C.F.; Foley, M.L.; Pecha, M.; Pullen, A.; Ibañez-Mejia, M. Multi-instrumental approach to better characterize zircon populations in the geological record. GSA Connects 2025, San Antonio, USA, 19-22 October 2025.
Stevens, J.; Carrapa, B.; Ibañez-Mejia, M.; Muller, V.; Senger, M.H.; Fellin, G.; DeCelles, P.; Di Giulio, A.; Jepson, G. Testing Models of Collisional Magmatism: A Source-to-Sink Approach Applied to the Central Alps. GSA Connects 2025, San Antonio, USA, 19-22 October 2025.
Kennedy, R.; Orme, D.A.;, Foley, M.L.; Alberts, D.G.; Senger, M.H.; Ibañez-Mejia, M.; Gehrels, G. A 3.82 Ga granodioritic gneiss with Hadean xenocrystic zircon grains in the Bridger Range, Montana: Remnants of Earth's early crust. GSA Connects 2025, San Antonio, USA, 19-22 October 2025.
Senger, M.H. and Bindeman, I. 2024. Surface conditions at 2.47 Ga as constrained by triple oxygen isotope system. Goldschmidt Conference 2024, Chicago, USA, 18-23 August. https://doi.org/10.46427/gold2024.23132
Senger, M.H.; Davies, J.F.H.L.; Marin-Carbonne, J.; Greber, N.D.; Schaltegger, U. 2023. Multi-step increase of atmospheric oxygen between ~2.5-2.4 Ga. Goldschmidt Conference 2023, Lyon, France, 10-14 July. https://doi.org/10.7185/gold2023.14056
Senger, M.H.; Greber, N.D.; Davies, J.F.H.L.; Schaltegger, U. 2022. Molybdenum isotopes in the ~2.48 Ga-old Kuruman Formation, South Africa. Swiss Geoscience Meetings 2022, Lausanne, Switzerland, 21-22 November.
Senger, M.H.; Davies, J.F.H.L.; Ovtcharova, M.; Beukes, N.J.; Mukwevho; R.; Gaynor, S.P.; Schaltegger, U. 2022. U-Pb geochronology of the Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa. GSA Connects 2022, Denver, USA, 7-12 October. doi: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-378630
Senger, M.H.; Greber, N.D.; Davies, J.F.H.L.; Ulyanov, A.; Schaltegger, U. 2022. Elemental survey of a drillcore piercing the Kuruman iron formation, South Africa. 12th South American Symposium on Isotope Geology, Santiago, Chile, 3-6 July.
Senger, M.H.; Marin-Carbonne, J.; Davies, J.F.H.L.; Mason, P.R.D.; Bouvier, A.S.; Schaltegger, U. 2022. S-cycle characterization in the Paleoproterozoic Kuruman iron formation, Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa. Goldschmidt Conference 2022, Honolulu, USA, 10-15 July. https://doi.org/10.46427/gold2022.12829
Senger, M.H.; Davies, J.F.H.L.; Ovtcharova, M.; Beukes, N.; Gumsley, A.; Gaynor, S.P.; Ulyanov, A.; Schaltegger, U. 2022. U-Pb zircon geochronology combining both in-situ and bulk-grain techniques in the Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa. EGU General Assembly, 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23-27 May. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-1666
Senger, M.H.; Schaltegger, U.; Reuben, N., Beukes, N.; 2021. New high-precision U-Pb zircon CA-ID-TIMS ages on the Paleoproterozoic Makganyene Formation, Griqualand West Basin, South Africa. Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2021, Geneva, Switzerland.
Barcelona, H.; Senger, M.H.; Maffucci, R.; Yagupsky, D., 2018. Modelado de fracturas en el reservorio geotérmico de Copahue. In: Proc. XVII Reunión de Tectónica, La Rioja.
Postgraduate Research Grants. 2022. 1000 EUR. Understanding the first rise in atmospheric oxygen using Molybdenum isotopes in the Kuruman Formation, Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa. International Association of Sedimentologists, c/o Ghent University, Department of Geology, Campus Sterre, Building S8, Krijgslaan 281, 9000 Gent, Belgium. Validity time period: January 2023-September 2023.
Grant for analytical expenses. 2022. 10.000 CHF. Grant # Req. 4/2022. Unraveling the Earth’s first atmospheric oxygen rise . Fondation Ernst et Lucie Schmidheiny, Quai Ernest-Ansermet 30, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland. Validity time period: June 2022-September 2023.
Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship 2019. Grant # 2019.0659. Dating the Great Oxidation Event in the Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa. University of Geneva. Academic supervisor: Prof. Dr. Schaltegger, Urs. Validity time period: September 2019-September 2022.
Best thesis of the year (2019) - Department of Geology (UBA). Comittee members: Maisonnave, B.; Ostera, H.; Ramos, M.; and Hermann, C.
Pre-conference short course: Methods and Geological Applications in Geo-Thermo-Petro-Chronology I (SC25CN515). GSA Connects 2025, San Antonio, USA, 17 October 2025.
Pre-conference short course: Methods and Geological Applications in Geo-Thermo-Petro-Chronology I (505). GSA Connects 2024, Annaheim, USA, 20 September 2024.
Assistant in Isotopic Geochemistry (Spring 2022) with Prof. Schaltegger, U.; Chiaradia, M.; Spikings, R.; Mortiz, R., Département des sciences de la Terre, Université de Genève.
Assistant in Pétrologie 1 (Autumn 2020, 2021, 2022) with Prof. Chiaradia, M., Faculté des Sciences, Département des sciences de la Terre, Université de Genève.
Assistant in Geochémie (Autumn 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022) with Prof. Moritz, R., Faculté des Sciences, Département des sciences de la Terre, Université de Genève).
Basics of CT Data acquisition, visualization, and analysis for geological applications at UTCT, 10th - 12th July 2024, Austin, USA.
GSA-short course: Detrital Geochronology Data (code 529B), 8th of October 2022, Denver, USA.
GSA-short course: Methods and Geological Applications in Geo-Thermo-Petro-chronology (code 509), 7th of October 2022, Denver, USA.
CUSO course: Porphyry and epithermal ore deposits in Western Anatoloia, Turkey: Biga Peninsula, Menderes Massif, and Cenozoic volcanic province of Western Anatolia, 19th - 26th June 2022, Turkey.
CUSO course: Atom Probe course, 31st of March and 1st of April 2022, Lausanne-Zurich, Switzerland.
Virtual Astrobiology Introductory Course (RED’21), 21th-26th June 2021, Le Teich, France.
CUSO course: Geodynamics, 8th-11th March 2021, Geneva, Switzerland.
Virtual event “Sulfur in the Earth System: From microbes to global cycles through Earth History”, 16th and 17th November, 2020. The Geological Society, London, England.
CUSO course: Volcano-tectonic and sedimentological processes in the Main Ethiopian Rift, Afar triangle, and its escarpment. 23rd January - 2nd February 2020, Ethiopia.
Software “Andino 3D” (31/08/18-01/09/18), Universidad Nacional de La Rioja, Argentina.
GSA (2024-present)
Geochemical Society (2022-2023)
EGU student membership (2022-2023)
Participation in the Virtual Seminar for Precambrian Geology organized by Kovalick, A. and Bekker, A.(2020-present)
Ciclo de Charlas del IDEAN – 2022 – Geocronología U-Pb en circones precámbricos.
Memories of Buenos Aires underground, July 2018, Centro Cultural de la Ciencia C3, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Geology and Paleontology beneath the city of Buenos Aires, Earthscience’s Week 2018, May 2018, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Cycle of Rocks and Fluvial Geomorphology Stands, Earthscience’s Week 2016, May 2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
University of Arizona
Department of Earth Sciences
1040 E. 4th Street
Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
