Author Archives: Alex Quas-Cohen

About Alex Quas-Cohen

I’m Alex, I’m 26 and I heart rocks and minerals! I am a PhD student at the University of Manchester. My supervisors are Dr Giles Droop, Dr Ray Burgess and Prof. Chris J Ballentine from the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences and Dr Simon Cuthbert from the School of Sciences at the University of the West of Scotland. To describe my interest succinctly, I would say that I am most curious about Earth system science – how does the planet work? What has happened over its lifetime? And why? The first thing I remember wanting to be ‘when I grow up’ was a detective and so I like to think of myself as rock detective. During the course of this blog I will tell you about the research I am carrying out for my PhD project and explain some of the analytical techniques that I use to do it.

Planetary Design: A Brief Introduction

Posted on May 3, 2012
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In my last post I tried to explain why I study rocks. In my next few posts I will describe my research focus and exactly what I am doing for my PhD thesis. However, in order to better explain this … Continue reading →

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Why rocks?

Posted on February 13, 2012

Before I get into telling you about my PhD research I thought I would answer this question, most recently posed to me by a French businessman; and it got me thinking…seriously, why rocks? Following some thought, my answer was power … Continue reading →

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A Namibian Interlude

Posted on January 4, 2012
P1.1: field area in Namibia

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I have recently returned from a short work placement with SRK Consulting (UK) Ltd, a mining consultancy company. I joined a team who went to Namibia to carry out geological mapping and geochemical sampling as part of a resource exploration … Continue reading →

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