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Hi! My name's Xenia. Pleased to meet ya.

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Currently interested in: user services and support, science, analysis, communication, design, outreach, photography, and webpage development.

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Read below my CV in short.

Recent Work Experience
Technical Expert, University of Göttingen, Base4NFDI Project. Since 10/2023.

Mineralogist & Project Management in Refractory Industry, 09/2022-09/2023.

Freelance work in Web Design, 06/2022.

Senior Scientific Support Analyst, Center for Translational Data Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA. 01/2022-04/2022.

Scientific Support Analyst, Center for Translational Data Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA. 07/2022-012/2021.

Ph.D. candidate in Mineralogy, Institute for Mineralogy, University of Münster, Germany. 08/2015-06/2019.

Visiting research scientist in molecular dynamics simulations, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, Sorbonne University, Paris, France. 05/2018-10/2018.

Editorial assistant for journal “Geochemistry”, Elsevier GmbH, Munich, Germany. 01/2018-04/2018.

R&D trainee in nuclear material characterization, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Karlsruhe, Germany. 03/2014-08/2014.

Student/Research assistant in webpage administration and lab maintenance, Institute for Mineralogy & Institute for Planetology University of Münster, Germany. 08/2010-07/2015.

Tools
  • Microsoft Office, G Suite, Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Lightroom, XD, Illustrator, InDesign), CMS, HTML, CSS, Vanilla JavaScript, Visual Studio Code, bash, OriginPro, JIRA, Python (basic), MATLAB (basic).
Education
  • Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.) in Mineralogy, University of Münster, Germany, 2019.
  • Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Earth Sciences, University of Münster, Germany, 2015.
  • Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Earth Sciences, University of Münster, Germany, 2012.
Volunteering, internships, and other

Data analyst and instrumentation scientist in meteorite research, Integrative Research Center, Field Museum, Chicago, USA. 01/2020-07/2020.

Program management intern in professional career development, myCHOICE, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA. 01/2020-07/2020.

Age determination and river systems on Mars and 4-Vesta, Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Berlin, Germany. 08/2011-09/2011.

Au Pair, Paris, France. 08/2008-12/2008.

Professional Development
  • Front End Web Development (remote), General Assembly, 12/2021. 60 hours. Content: HTML, CSS, Vanilla Javascript.
Grants and Talks
  • 6-months funded ‘DAAD’ scholarship (2018), Sorbonne University, Paris.
  • 3 European Union- and European Microbeam Analysis Society-funded travel grants for 2 conferences.
  • 2 selected presentations at conferences organized the NATO - International School of Crystallography (2016, Erice, Italy) and by the European Microbeam Analysis Society (2015, Portorož, Slovenia).
Publications
  • Heck, P.R., Schmitz, B., Ritter, X., Rout, S.S., Kita, N.T., Defouilloy, C., Keating, K., Eisenstein, K. and Terfelt, F. (2024) Unusual sources of fossil micrometeorites deduced from relict chromite in the small size fraction in ~467  Ma old limestone. Meteorit Planet Sci, 59: 502-513. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.14133.
  • Massuyeau, M., Ritter, X., Sanchez-Valle, C. (2022) A density model for high-pressure carbonate-rich melts applied to carbonatitic magmatism in the upper mantle. Chemical Geology, 2022, 121275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2022.121275.
  • Barnes, C., et al. (2021) The Biomedical Research Hub: a federated platform for patient research data. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 00(0), 107. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocab247.
  • Ritter, X., et al. (2021) Non-Arrhenian temperature-dependent viscosity of alkali(ne) carbonate melts at mantle pressures. Frontiers in Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.674770.
  • Ritter, X., et al. (2021) Improved Protocol for the Quantification of Actinides (Th, U, Np, Pu, Am, Cm) using Electron Probe Microanalysis. Microscopy & Microanalysis 27 (5), 1056-1068. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1431927621012526.
  • Ritter, X., et al. (2020) Density of hydrous carbonate melts under pressure, compressibility of volatiles and implications for carbonate melt mobility in the upper mantle. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 533, 116043. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.116043.
  • Ritter, X., et al. (2015) Impact glass spherules in the Chicxulub K-Pg event bed at Beloc, Haiti: Alteration patterns. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 50 (3), 418-432. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.12432.

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