Meet the Authors

摘要

Nikolay N. Akinfiev graduated from the Faculty of Physics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia), defended his PhD in the Seminov Institute of Chemical Physics (Moscow, Russia), and became a professor at the Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is a principal investigator at the Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). His research interests are in geochemistry, with a particular emphasis on the theoretical geochemistry of aqueous solution/mineral interactions and solute speciation at high temperatures and pressures. Wolfgang Bach is a professor at the University of Bremen (Germany) where he leads the Petrology of the Ocean Crust research group. He is also a project leader at MARUM - the Centre for Marine Environmental Research. His research interests include hydrothermal geochemistry, ocean-crust-mantle geochemical exchange budgets, fluid-rock interactions, and geomicrobiology. He has been engaged in the International Ocean Drilling Program (ODP and IODP) for most of his career and has participated in many other deep-sea exploration missins.