Andrea Koschinsky holds a Doctoral degree in Geochemistry and is a Professor of Geoscience in the programs Earth and Space Sciences and Integrated Environmental Studies at the Jacobs University Bremen.
Andrea has been working in the field of marine and environmental geochemistry for about 20 years. Her research includes projects on the formation mechanisms and metal associations of marine ferromanganese crusts and nodules and the assessment of environmental consequences of future deep-sea mining. Her second major focus is the geochemisty of hydrothermal fluids and their interactions with the biosphere. Here, the role of organic ligands for the transport of metals from hydrothermal fluids has become a major research focus in the past years. As part of her marine research activities, she participated in numerous cruises in the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. During one of these cruises as part of the German special priority program SPP 1144 she and her team discovered the hottest vent fluids known so far, which emanate at supercritical conditions at the seafloor.
More recent activities include projects in environmental geochemistry, such as on the input and transport of uranium into soils and groundwater from phosphate fertilizers.
