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Jochen J. Brocks is a professor at the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University. He received a Masters in physical organic chemistry from the University of Freiburg in Germany and a PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia in 2002. He was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2001 to 2004. He calls his field of research ‘Paleobiogeochemistry' as he is fascinated by biological processes in deep time, from the origin of life to mysterious ecosystems in Earth's earliest oceans, and events that may have spawned the evolution of complex cells and multicellular life. To find clues about ancient ecosystems, he studies molecular fossils of biological lipids (biomarkers) that can be preserved in sedimentary rocks for billions of years. Currently he and his students investigate the question why large, multicellular and active creatures appeared on Earth some 600 million years ago, how primary producers at the base of the foodweb controlled the largest mass extinction of all times, and whether ancient oceans harbored a lost world of complex life that left no traces … apart from some obsolete molecules.

Education/Academic qualification

Organic Geochemistry, PhD, Biomarkers in Archean Rocks, University of Sydney

Award Date: 1 Jan 2002

Chemistry, Master, Physical Organic Chemistry, University of Freiburg

Award Date: 1 Jun 1997

External Scholarly Memberships and Affiliations

Geochemistry Fellow of the Geochemical Society (GS) and The European Association of Geochemistry (EAG)

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