Werdegang:
Curriculum Vitae
Education:     
University of Vienna (1964 – 1971), physics and mathematics, Ph. D. in nuclear physics at the Institut für Radiumforschung und Kernphysik, Prof. Karlik
Habilitation Mineralogy, Universität Mainz (1985)
Positions:      
Research scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Abteilung Kosmochemie, Mainz (1971 – 1976)
Research Associate, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago (Prof. E. Anders) (1976 – 1977)
Senior Research Assistant at the Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Mainz (1977 – 1994)
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson (1985, three months)
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (1991, three months)
Professor of Mineralogy and Geochemistry (C4), Universität zu Köln, Institut für Mineralogie und Geochemie (1994 – 2008)
2008 – Ehrenamtlicher Mitarbeiter (honorary collaborator), Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Frankfurt

Forschungsschwerpunkte:
Geochemie und Kosmochemie

Mitgliedschaften und Funktionen:
Professional Societies:
Meteoritical Society (Fellow)
German Mineralogical Society (member)
Austrian Mineralogical Society (member)

Relevant Professional Service:
1985 – 1987 Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research
1987 – 1994 Associate Editor, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
1990 – Advisory Editorial Board Earth and Planetary Science Letters
1998 – 2000 Associate Editor, European Journal of Mineralogy
1999 – 2002 Associate Editor, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
1983 – 1987 Member of the Council of the Meteoritical Society
1986 – 1988 Member of the Lunar and Planetary Review Panel, NASA, Houston
1994 – 1996 Member of the Joint Publications Committtee of the Geochemical and Meteoritical Society
1993 – 1997 Member of the Council of the European Association of Geochemistry
1994 – 1996 Leiter der Sektion Geochemie der Deutschen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft
1997 – International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry (IAGC) Chairman of the Working Group of Extraterrestrial Geochemistry
1997 – Koordinator (zus. mit D. Dingwell) des Schwerpunktprogramms der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft: Bildung, Transport und Differentiation von Silikatschmelzen
1998 – Mitglied der Komission für Geowissenschaftliche Hochdruckforschung der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
2005 Member of the Lunar and Planetary Review Panel, NASA, Washington
2003 – 2004 Vorsitzender der Deutschen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft
2005 – 2006 President of the Meteoritical Society
2007 Chairman of Organizing Committee, Goldschmidt Conference 2007, Köln

Auszeichnungen und Ehrungen:
1986 Fellow of the Meteoritical Society
2002 Fellow of the Geochemical Society
2000 Korrespondierendes Mitglied der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
2001 Ordentliches Mitglied der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste
2002 Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
2003 Leonard Medal of the Meteoritical Society
2006 Urey Medal of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
2011 Abraham-Gottlob-Werner Medaille der Deutsche Mineralogischen Gesellschaft

Ausgewählte Publikationen:
Jagoutz, E., H. Palme, H. Baddenhausen, K. Blum, M. Cendales, G. Dreibus, B. Spettel, V. Lorenz and H. Wänke: The abundances of major, minor, and trace elements in the earth's mantle as derived from primitive ultramafic nodules. Proc. 10th Lunar Planet. Sci. Conf., Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2, 2031-2050 (1979).
O’Neill H.St. C. and Palme H. Composition of the silicate Earth: Implications for accretion and core formation. In: The Earth’s Mantle: Structure, Composition and Evolution- the Ringwood Volume (ed. I. Jackson). Cambridge University), Elsevier-Pergamon, Oxford.
Lodders, K., Palme, H., Gail, H.-P.: Abundances in the Solar System (2009) Landolt-Börnstein, New Series, Vol. VI/4B, Chap. 4.4, Trümper, J.E. (ed.), Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, p. 560-598.
Palme H., Lodders K. and Jones A. (2014) Solar System Abundances of the Elements. In: Holland H.D. and Turekian K.K. (eds.) Treatise on Geochemistry, Second Edition, vol. 2, pp. 15-36. Oxford: Elsevier
Palme H., and O'Neill H.St.C. (2014) Cosmochemical Estimates of Mantle Composition. In: Holland H.D. and Turekian K.K. (eds.) Treatise on Geochemistry, Second Edition, vol. 3, pp. 1-39. Oxford: Elsevier.

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