Rate My Professor Matt Kilburn

Kilburn specializes as an expert in Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS), including NanoSIMS, and other analytical techniques, with applications ranging from geochemistry and biogeochemistry to biomedical research and nuclear safeguards. His multidisciplinary research encompasses studies on early life on Earth, microbial mediation in mineral alteration, sulfur metabolisms in Archean rocks, nutrient cycling in coral symbiosis, and organomineralization processes. Key publications include 'Microfossils of sulphur-metabolizing cells in 3.4-billion-year-old rocks of Western Australia' (Wacey et al., 2011), 'Advances in the analysis of biogeochemical interfaces: NanoSIMS to investigate soil microenvironments' (Mueller et al., 2013), 'Nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS) as an analytical tool in the geosciences' (Kilburn & Wacey, 2015), 'The mechanism of borosilicate glass corrosion revisited' (Geisler et al., 2015), 'Radionuclide distributions in Olympic Dam copper concentrates: The significance of minor hosts, incorporation mechanisms, and the role of mineral surfaces' (Rollog et al., 2020), and 'Recognition of a widespread Paleoproterozoic hydrothermal system in the southern McArthur Basin, northern Australia, by in-situ analysis of fine-grained pyrite and spatially-associated solid bitumen in the Lamont Pass palaeohigh' (Li et al., 2022). In September 2019, he took up the position of Head of the Environmental Sample Laboratory in the Department of Safeguards at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, while retaining his adjunct role at UWA.