{"id":430,"date":"2023-10-24T16:20:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T14:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceza.de\/?post_type=team&#038;p=430"},"modified":"2026-03-22T10:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:01:40","slug":"dr-michael-brauns","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/ceza.de\/english\/about-us\/team\/dr-michael-brauns","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Michael Brauns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Michael Brauns studied mineralogy at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen from 1984 and received his diploma in 1991. This was followed by his doctorate, which he completed in 1995. After eight years of PostDoc in Giessen and Melbourne, Michael Brauns has been working at CEZA since 2003 and is responsible for the Material Analysis Laboratory. He is a member of the Executive Board for Science at CEZA gGmbH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Academic and professional background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Since 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research Assistant at Curt-Engelhorn-Zentrum-Arch\u00e4ometrie gGmbH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2003-2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head of Laboratory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2001-2003<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post-doctoral fellowship at the Justus-Liebig-University Gie\u00dfen (DFG research program System Earth, Development of the seawater curve for osmium)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1998-2001<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post-doctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne &#8220;Os Isotopes and the Origin of the Tasmanian Dolerites<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1995-1998<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Post-doctoral fellow at the Justus-Liebig-University Gie\u00dfen (DFG research project, development of the Re-Os method for sulphides and rocks)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1995<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PhD, topic: &#8220;Isotope investigations on ores of the Siegerland&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1991<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diploma in Mineralogy Topic: &#8220;Geochemical investigations on metabasites of the Damara Orogen, Namibia\/South West Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1984-1991<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Study of mineralogy at the Justus-Liebig-University Gie\u00dfen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":519,"menu_order":20,"template":"","meta":{"editor_notices":[]},"team_category":[28],"class_list":["post-430","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dr. Michael Brauns - CEZA EN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ceza.de\/english\/about-us\/team\/dr-michael-brauns\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr. Michael Brauns - CEZA EN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Michael Brauns studied mineralogy at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen from 1984 and received his diploma in 1991. 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