As several outstanding applications were received, the award committee decided to present the Beate Mocek Award to two recipients this year.
Lisa Kaatz plans a research visit to Lausanne to collaborate with colleagues on the numerical simulation of fluid–rock interaction processes.
Lisa Kaatz's doctoral research, entitled “Coupling Deformation with Fluid Flow and Mineral Reactions Based on Natural Shear Zones – from Field Observations to Numerical Simulations,” focuses on understanding the interaction between deformation, fluids, and mineral reactions. At the beginning of her project, she collected samples from shear zone systems on the island of Holsnøy in western Norway. Her subsequent Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analyses of the water contents of selected nominally anhydrous minerals (NAMs) provided important insights into fluid–rock interaction and the resulting mineral reactions. Together with colleagues in Lausanne, she is now developing numerical models to simulate aqueous fluid diffusion and the resulting complex fluid–rock–deformation interactions, with the aim of improving our understanding of large-scale structural geological processes.
