Liane G. Benning

Liane G. Benning (* November 1963 ) is a German geologist and professor at the Free University of Berlin and at the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam.

Career

Benning studied marine geology / petrology at the University of Kiel and petrology and geochemistry at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich and received his doctorate in 1995 from the ETH under Terry Seward in aqueous geochemistry. From 1996 to 1998 she was a postdoctoral fellow at Pennsylvania State University (USA). She then moved to the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Leeds . From 1999 to 2004 she was a research assistant and from 2004 a lecturer in geobiology.

Benning has been Professor of Experimental Bio-Geochemistry at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds (UK) since 2007 . Since 2014 she has also been head of the Interface Geochemistry Section at the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam and since 2016 she has been Professor of Interface Geochemistry at the Free University of Berlin and at the GFZ.

research

Benning deals with low to hydrothermal, biogeochemical reactions in inorganic and biological systems. She is researching the chemical reactions that lead to the formation of minerals that make up the surface rocks of the earth, and what role soil microbes play in this.

Another research field of Benning is the adaptations of microbial life under extreme environmental conditions. During her field studies (e.g. in Iceland , New Zealand , Svalbard and Greenland ) she also tries to find out how life adapts to extremely hot or cold environments, such as occurs in ice and snow or in melting processes (see Extremophilia ). Benning has studied how the albedo changes due to the interactions between microbes and particles. Algae protect themselves against too much sunlight through the production of pigments, but these lead to the fact that the snow melts more quickly. Benning is investigating this connection between algal blooms and the melting of the Arctic ice sheets.

Benning was involved in the development of the synchrotron technology . It works together with the British synchrotron source DIAMOND in Oxfordshire (UK) and the European synchrotron source ESRF in Grenoble (France). Another collaboration partner of Benning is the NASA Astrobiology Institute .

Awards

• since 2020 Geochemistry Fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
• since 2018 member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• 2016 Schlumberger Award from the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
• 2016 Bigsby Medal from the Geological Society of London
• 2009–2014 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
• 2015 President of the European Association of Geochemistry
• 2009 European Association of Geochemistry Council
• 2009 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
• 1996–1997 International grant for research in the USA, Swiss National Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (SNSF)

Publications (selection)

• Brinza, L., Vu, HP, Neamtu, M., Benning, LG (2019): Experimental and simulation results of the adsorption of Mo and V onto ferrihydrite. Scientific Reports, 9, 1365. [1]
• Freeman, H., Perez, JPH, Hondow, N., Benning, LG, Brown, AP (2019): Beam-induced oxidation of mixed-valent Fe (oxyhydr) oxides (green rust) monitored by STEM-EELS. Micron, 122, 46-52. [2]
• Grimm, C., Martinez, RE, Pokrovsky, OS, Benning, LG, Oelkers, EH (2019): Enhancement of cyanobacterial growth by riverine particulate material. Chemical Geology, 525, 143-167. [3]
• Hövelmann, J., Stawski, T., Besselink, R., Freeman, H., Dietmann, KM, Mayanna, S., Pauw, BR, Benning, LG (2019): A template-free and low temperature method for the synthesis of mesoporous magnesium phosphate with uniform pore structure and high surface area. Nanoscale, 11, 14, 6939-6951.

Web links

• Liane G. Benning at Google Scholar
• Liane G. Benning on the website of the Free University of Berlin
• Liane G. Benning on the website of the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Liane G. Benning, Terry M. Seward: Hydrosulphide complexing of Au (I) in hydrothermal solutions from 150-400C and 500-1500 bar . In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta . tape 60 , no. June 11 , 1996, pp. 1849 , doi : 10.1016 / 0016-7037 (96) 00061-0 .
2. ^ Liane G. Benning, Alexandre M. Anesio, Stefanie Lutz, Martyn Tranter: Biological impact on Greenland's albedo. In: Nature Geoscience. 7, 2014, p. 691, doi : 10.1038 / ngeo2260 .
3. ^ Publications by Benning in collaboration with the NASA Astrobiology Institute. In: NASA Astrobiology Institute. Retrieved March 15, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Liane Benning appointed "Geochemistry Fellow" 2020. Retrieved March 15, 2020 . 
5. ^ Leopoldina members. Retrieved March 7, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Personnel | Liane G. Benning has received the Schlumberger Award 2016. Accessed March 7, 2020 . 
7. ^ The Geological Society of London - 2016 Awards: Citations and Replies. Retrieved March 7, 2020 . 
8. ^ EAG President Liane G. Benning says good-bye. Retrieved March 7, 2020 . 
9. ^ EAG President Liane G. Benning says good-bye. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .