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Dipl.-Chem. Dr. Silke Merchel

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silke.merchel@univie.ac.at

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Sommersemester 2026

260045 LP Laboratory: Nuclear and Isotope Physics - Isotope detection and application

260074 LP Laborpraktikum: Kernphysik

260080 SE Bachelorseminar

Wintersemester 2025

260045 LP Laboratory: Nuclear and Isotope Physics - Isotope detection and application

260074 LP Laborpraktikum: Kernphysik

260114 SE Seminar Applied isotope physics

Sommersemester 2025

260045 LP Laboratory: Nuclear and Isotope Physics - Isotope detection and application

260074 LP Laborpraktikum: Kernphysik

Zhang, L., Li, Y., Marchhart, O., Merchel, S., Wieser, A., & Zech, R. (2026). Beryllium-10-derived denudation rates in the Roda Catchment, Germany. E&G Quarternary Science Journal, 75(1), 19-32. https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-75-19-2026

Slavkovská, Z., Dastgiri, F., Fifield, L. K., Froehlich, M. B., Hotchkis, M. A. C., Koll, D., Merchel, S., Pavetich, S., Tims, S. G., & Wallner, A. (2026). Dark matter detector radioimpurities ¹²⁹I and ²¹⁰Pb measured with accelerator mass spectrometry. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 570, Artikel 165935. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.11689, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165935

Webb, R. P., Costa, C., Palitsin, V., Colaux, J. L., Stuart, F. M., Hain, K., Merchel, S., & Steier, P. (2026). On the analysis of lead objects in an attempt to determine their age. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 570, Artikel 165947. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2025.165947

FRIPON International Team, Marchhart, O., Martschini, M., Merchel, S., & Wieser, A. (2025). Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defence. Nature Astronomy, 9, 1624-1637. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.12362, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-025-02659-8

Bischoff, A., Patzek, M., BARRAT, J.-A., Bartel, S., Berndt, J., Busemann, H., Di Rocco, T., Ek, M., Fehr, M. A., Heinlein, D., Krietsch, D., Lehnert, B., Maden, C., Marchhart, O., Martschini, M., Merchel, S., Pack, A., Patzer, A., Pichotta, M., ... Wimmer, K. (2025). The fall of the Haag (LL4-6) chondrite breccia—Just 8 years after the nearby fall Stubenberg (LL6). Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 60(11), 2676-2702. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.70060

Mizerit, I., Morabito, E. G., Bechis, F., Terrizzano, C. M., Groos, A. R., Rugel, G., Merchel, S., & Zech, R. (2025). Pleistocene glacial geomorphology and chronology of the Nahuel Huapi-Limay and Traful catchments, northern Patagonia. Geomorphology, 485, Artikel 109836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.109836

Pittarello, L., Chernonozhkin, S. M., Marchhart, O., Martschini, M., Merchel, S., Wieser, A., Vanhaecke, F., & Goderis, S. (2025). A terrestrial rock instead of an ureilite: Caution is recommended to scientists working on material received from meteorite collections. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 60(9), 2283-2292. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.70030

Koll, D., Fichter, S., Hotchkis, M., Martschini, M., Merchel, S., Pavetich, S., Rolofs, A., Tims, S., Zwickel, S., & Wallner, A. (2025). Recent progress on interstellar radionuclides on Earth and the Moon. European Physical Journal A, 61(5), Artikel 101. https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-025-01554-0

Jeanneret, P., Moreiras, S. M., Merchel, S., Preusser, F., May, JH., Gärtner, A., & Orgeira, M. J. (2025). Chronology of Late Pleistocene glacial advances in a Mount Mercedario catchment, Subtropical Andes of Argentina (32° S). Journal of Quaternary Science, 40(3), 500–518. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3671

Koll , D., Lachner, J., Beutner, S., Fichter, S., Merchel, S., Rugel, G., Slavkovská, Z., Vivo Vilches, C., Winkler, S., & Wallner, A. (2025). A cosmogenic ¹⁰Be anomaly during the late Miocene as independent time marker for marine archives. Nature Communications, 16, Artikel 866. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55662-4

Siebert, C., Ionescu, D., Mallast, U., Merchel, S., Merkel, B., Möller, P., Pavetich, S., Pohl, T., Rödinger, T., & Yechieli, Y. (2024). A new type of submarine chimneys built of halite. Science of the Total Environment, 955, 1-15. Artikel 176752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176752

Bischoff, A., Patzek, M., Barrat, J. A., Berndt, J., Busemann, H., Degering, D., Di Rocco, T., Ek, M., Harries, D., Godinho, J. R. A., Heinlein, D., Kriele, A., Krietsch, D., Maden, C., Marchhart, O., Marshal, R. M., Martschini, M., Merchel, S., Möller, A., ... Wimmer, K. (2024). Cosmic pears from the Havelland (Germany): Ribbeck, the twelfth recorded aubrite fall in history. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 59(10), 2660-2694. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.14245

Bischoff, A., Patzek, M., Alosius, R. M. L., Barrat, J. A., Berndt, J., Busemann, H., Degering, D., Di Rocco, T., Ek, M., Gattacceca, J., Godinho, J. R. A., Heinlein, D., Krietsch, D., Maden, C., Marchhart, O., Martschini, M., Merchel, S., Pack, A., Peters, S., ... Zielke, R. (2024). The anomalous polymict ordinary chondrite breccia of Elmshorn (H3-6)—Late reaccretion after collision between two ordinary chondrite parent bodies, complete disruption, and mixing possibly about 2.8 Gyr ago. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 59(9), 2321-2356. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.14193

Feige, J., Airo, A., Berger, D., Brückner, D., Gärtner, A., Genge, M., Leya, I., Habibi Marekani, F., Hecht, L., Klingner, N., Lachner, J., Li, X., Merchel, S., Nissen, J., Patzer, A. B. C., Peterson, S., Schropp, A., Sager, C., Suttle, M. D., ... Weinhold, J. (2024). Transport of dust across the Solar System: Constraints on the spatial origin of individual micrometeorites from cosmic-ray exposure. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 382(2273), Artikel 20230197. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0197

Hofmann, F. M., Groos, A. R., Morabito, E. G., Struck, J., Gnägi, C., Scharf, A., Rugel, G., Merchel, S., & Zech, R. (2024). A regional assessment of the deglaciation history of the Swiss Plateau based on newly obtained and re-evaluated Be-10 cosmic-ray exposure ages. Quaternary Science Advances, 13, Artikel 100124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2023.100124

Fichter, S., Child, D., Froehlich, M., Hotchkis, M. A. C., Koeberl, C., Koll , D., Merchel, S., & Wallner, A. (2024). Search for r-process Pu-244 in the K-Pg boundary layer. Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics XI Conference, Dresden , Deutschland.

Koeberl, C., Fichter, S., Hotchkis, M. A. C., Child, C., Froehlich, M. B., Koll , D., Merchel, S., & Wallner, A. (2024). Search for r-process ²⁴⁴Pu in the K-Pg boundary layer. #1952. 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC2024), USA / Vereinigte Staaten. https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2024/pdf/1952.pdf

Kudriavtseva, A., Codilean, A. T., Sobel, E. R., Landgraf, A., Fülöp, R.-H., Dzhumabaeva, A., Abdrakhmatov, K., Wilcken, K. M., Schildgen, T., Fink, D., Fujioka, T., Gong, L., Rosenwinkel, S., Merchel, S., & Rugel, G. (2023). Impact of Quaternary Glaciations on Denudation Rates in North Pamir—Tian Shan Inferred From Cosmogenic ¹⁰Be and Low-Temperature Thermochronology. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 128(12), Artikel e2023JF007193. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007193

Pittarello, L., Chernonozhkin, S., Downes, H., Marchhart, O., Merchel, S., Wieser, A., Vanhacke, F., Villeneuve, J., & Goderis, S. (2023). An uncommon terrestrial rock that was believed to be a meteorite. Beitrag in MinWien2023, Wien, Österreich.

Koll, D., Wallner, A., Battisson, S., Fichter, S., Fifield, L. K., Froehlich, M. B., Lachner, J., Merchel, S., Pavetich, S., Rugel, G., Slavkovská, Z., Tims, S. G., & Ziegenrücker, R. (2022). Element separation chemistry and cosmogenic ¹⁰Be dating of a ferromanganese crust. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 530, 53-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2022.08.017