Wim van Westrenen

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Telefoon	+31 20 59 87279
E-mail	w.van.westrenen@vu.nl
Kamer	E-259

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Wim van Westrenen is interested in the use of experimental high-pressure, high-temperature apparatus to solve mineralogical and petrological problems in Earth and Planetary Science. To do so, his team subjects rock samples to extreme pressure and temperature conditions, and measures their chemical and physical properties.

He teaches (parts of) courses in mineralogy, rock recognition, mantle properties, magmatic processes, mathematics and physics, and planetary science, and is Coordinator of the VU MSc Earth Sciences programme.

Wim van Westrenen is a former member and former board member of the Young Academy of KNAW. In 2013, he was appointed as full professor in Planetary Evolution on a University Research Chair.

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Ancillary activities

ESA Topical Team Lunar Dust Toxicity | Noordwijk | Member | 2017-01-10 - present
European Mineralogical Union | Amstelveen | Treasurer | 2017-12-01 - present
Stichting EARTH | Peize | Directeur | 2019-11-01 - present

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Research Output 2005 2019

86 Article
11 Poster
8 PhD Thesis - Research VU, graduation VU
6 Abstract
10 More

A lunar hygrometer based on plagioclase-melt partitioning of water

Lin, Y. H., Hui, H., Li, Y., Xu, Y. & Van Westrenen, W., 1 Jan 2019, In : Geochemical Perspectives Letters. 10, p. 14-19 6 p.

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

Hygrometers

plagioclase

partitioning

magma

melt

Constraints on planetary formation, accretion and differentiation from experimental petrology

Steenstra, E. S., 2019, 454 p.

Research output: PhD Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research VU, graduation VU › Academic

Open Access

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In situ viscometry of primitive lunar magmas at high pressure and high temperature

Rai, N., Perrillat, J. P., Mezouar, M., Colin, A., Petitgirard, S. & van Westrenen, W., 18 Apr 2019, In : Frontiers in Earth Science. 7, 94.

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

viscosity

titanium

melt

Moon

in situ

LA-ICP-MS analyses of Fe-rich alloys: Quantification of matrix effects for 193 nm excimer laser systems

Steenstra, E. S., Berndt, J., Klemme, S. & Van Westrenen, W., 1 Jan 2019, In : Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. 34, 1, p. 222-231 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Excimer lasers

Laser ablation

Electron probe microanalysis

Metals

Mineralogy, Structure, and Habitability of Carbon-Enriched Rocky Exoplanets: A Laboratory Approach

Hakim, K., Spaargaren, R., Grewal, D. S., Rohrbach, A., Berndt, J., Dominik, C. & van Westrenen, W., 1 Jul 2019, In : Astrobiology. 19, 7, p. 867-884 18 p.

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

habitability

Graphite

mineralogy

extrasolar planets

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