Martin Kunz

Education:

• 2002 Venia Docendi University of Basel, Switzerland (Mineralogy)
• 1991 Ph.D. University of Bern, Switzerland (Earth Science)
• 1988 Diploma University of Bern, Switzerland (Mineralogy)

Professional Career:

• 1992 – 1993: Postdoctoral Fellowship (Swiss National Science Foundation) at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (Prof. I.D. Brown)
• 1993 – 1995: Postdoc SUNY Stony Brook NY (Prof. J.B. Parise)
• 1995 – 1997: Beamline Scientist, ESRF, Grenoble, France (ID30, high-pressure)
• 1997 – 2000: Assistant Professor Dept. Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• 2000 – 2003: Lecturer and Curator for Mineralogy, Museum of Natural History and University of Basel, Switzerland
• 2003 – 2007: COMPRES beamline scientist, ALS BL 12.2.2
• 2007 – 2014: LBL Staff Scientist, beamline scientist ALS BL 12.3.2
• 2014 – present: LBL Staff Scientist, beamline scientist ALS BL 12.2.2

Awards and Honors:

• 1995: Paul Niggli-Medal for research excellence by young Swiss Earth Scientists
• 2004: European Union of Mineralogy Medal for excellence in research
• 2005: Fellow Mineralogical Society of America

• Crystal Chemistry
• Mineral Physics
• Structure – property relationships in Earth materials

• Yen, C.E., Q. Williams, and M. Kunz, “Thermal Pressure in the Laser-Heated Diamond Anvil Cell: A Quantitative Study and Implications for the Density Versus Mineralogy Correlation of the Mantle,” Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 125(10), e2020JB020006 (2020). (doi:10.1029/2020JB020006)
• Kunz, M., Yan, J., Cornell, E., Domning E.E., Yen, C.E., Doran, A., Beavers, C.M., Treger, A., Williams, Q., MacDowell, A.A., “Implementation and application of the peak scaling method for temperature measurement in the laser heated diamond anvil cell,” Review of Scientific Instruments 89(8), (2018) 083903. DOI: 10.1063/1.5028276
• Chen, K., Kunz, M., Tamura, N., and Wenk, H.-R., “Residual Stress preserved in quartz from the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth,” Geology 43(3), 219 – 222, (2015) org/10.1130/G36443.
• Putirka, K., Kunz, M., Swainson, I., and Thomson, J.A., “Journal Impact Factors: Their relevance and their influence on society-published scientific journals,” American Mineralogist 98, 1055 – 1065, (2013). org/10.2138/am.2013.435
• Kunz, M., Tamura, N., Chen, K., MacDowell, A.A., Celestre, R.S., Vhurch, M.M., Fakra, S., Domning, E.E., Glossinger, J.M., Kirschman, J.L., Morriosn, G.Y., Plate, D.W., Smith, B.V., Warwick, T., Yashchuk, V.V., Padmore, H.A., and Ustendag, E., “A dedicated superbend x-ray microdiffraction beamline for materials-, geo-, and environmental sciences at the Advanced Light Source,” Reviews of Scientifc Instruments 80, 035108-01 – 035108-10 (2009). 10.1063/1.3096295
• Kunz, M., Caldwell, W.A., Miyagi, L., and Wenk, H.R., “In situ laser heating and radial synchrotron X-ray diffraction in a diamond anvil cell,” Review of Scientific Instruments 78, 063907, (2007). 10.1063/1.2749443
• Kunz, M., Lager, G., Bürgi, H.-B. and Fernandez-Diaz, M.-T., “Thermal stability and hydrogen bonds in natural chondrodite: A high-temperature single-crystal neutron diffraction study,” Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 33, 17-27 (2006). 10.1007/s00269-005-0035-0
• Kunz, M., MacDowell, A.A., Caldwell, W.A., Cambie, D., Celestre, R.S., Domning, E.E., Duarte, R.M., Gleason, A.E., Glossinger, J.W., Kelez, N., Plate D.W., Yu, T., Zaug, J.M., Padmore H.A., Jeanloz, R., Alivisatos, A.P., and Clark, S.M., “A beamline for high-pressure studies at the Advanced Light Source with a superconducting bending magnet as the source,” Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 12, 650 – 658 (2005). 10.1107/S0909049505020959
• Kunz, M., Gillet, P., Fiquet, G., Sautter, V., Graafsma, H., Conrad, P., and Harris J., “Combined in situ X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy on majoritic garnet diamond inclusions,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 198 485 – 493 (2002). 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00527-7
• Kunz, M. and Brown, I.D., “Out-of-center distortions around octahedrally coordinated d0-transition metals,” Journal of Solid State Chemistry 115, 395-402 (1994). 10.1006/jssc.1995.1150