Francisco Apen

Position
Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Role
Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer Laboratory (TIMS Lab)
Title
Geology
Office Phone
Assistant
Office
​209 Guyot Hall
Bio/Description

Title: Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Group: Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer Laboratory (TIMS Lab)

Area(s): Geology

Research Summary: My research interests center around understanding the formation, evolution, and structure of continental lithosphere through petrology, thermochronology, radiogenic isotope geochemistry, major-/trace-element geochemistry, and numerical modeling. As a first-generation college graduate and first-generation American, I am invested in various DEI efforts and actively seek to recruit students from underrepresented groups as a way of bringing more diversity to the geosciences.

Keywords: geochronology, earth history, and mass extinctions