Langezijds

dr. A.H. Dijkstra (Arjan)

Assistant Professor in Earth Materials
ITC-AES
Langezijds 1424
a.h.dijkstra@utwente.nl
+31534899637
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I am a geologist interested in the sustainability and security of the supply of critical raw materials, i.e., the rocks and minerals from which we get the chemical elements needed for the energy transition. My research focus is on rare earth elements (REE, e.g. neodymium), cobalt, lithium and indium. I study their distribution in the Earth, and the processes that form economic mineral deposits from which they can be extracted.

I have a background in igneous petrology, geochemistry, tectonics and structural geology, and have held academic positions in Plymouth (United Kingdom), Neuchâtel (Switzerland), Perth (Australia) and Leicester (UK). I have a doctorate from Utrecht University (The Netherlands).

I also have a keen interest in public engagement. A recent example of an outreach video  that I was involved with about the elemental composition of a smartphone is here (youtube)

Expertise

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Depletion
    • Mantle
    • Event
    • Melt
    • Peridotite
    • Continental Crust
    • Earth Mantle
    • Osmium Isotope

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Publications

2024

Hyperspectral Python: HypPy (2024)Algorithms, 17(8). Article 337. Bakker, W., van Ruitenbeek, F., van der Werff, H., Hecker, C., Dijkstra, A. & van der Meer, F.https://doi.org/10.3390/a17080337Identification of rare earth elements in synthetic and natural monazite and xenotime by visible-to-shortwave infrared reflectance spectroscopy (2024)Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 51(2). Article 16. Dijkstra, A. H., Bakker, W. H., Deon, F., Marcatelli, C., Plokker, M. P. & Hintzen, H. T.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00269-024-01284-7The influence of changing moisture content on laboratory acquired spectral feature parameters and mineral classification (2024)International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (JAG), 130, 1-11. Article 103884. Jiang, T., van der Werff, H., van Ruitenbeek, F., Dijkstra, A., Lievens, C. & van der Meijde, M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2024.103884Zijn de grondstoffen voor de energietransitie schaars? (2024)In Natuurkundige voordrachten 2023 - 2024 (pp. 45-50) (Natuurkundige Voordrachten; Vol. 102). Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Natuurkunde onder de zinspreuk Diligentia. Dijkstra, A. H.

2023

Towards remote sensing of Rare Earth Element resources – first steps: spectroscopy of synthetic REE minerals (2023)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] 19e Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, NAC 2023. Dijkstra, A. H., Bakker, W. H., van Ruitenbeek, F. J. A. & Deon, F.

2021

Rare Earth Elements (REEs) in mine waste: a way to solve the rising worldwide REEs demand? (2021)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] 17th International Symposium on Experimental Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, EMPG 2021. Deon, F., Appelt, O., Wilke, F., Lievens, C., Dijkstra, A. H., van der Werff, H. M. A. & Purwadi, I.

Research profiles

In the press

  • Extensive reporting and interviews in British national newspapers (e.g., Guardian, Times, The Independent, Daily Mail) about the 'french' roots of southwest England established in my study published in Nature Communications; also radio interviews (e.g., Radio Scotland) (2018)
  • TV item about 'smartphone in blender experiment' on BBC Spotlight; videos also on websites of BBC Science, Bloomberg TicToc and Fox News and many other media outlets in UK, France, Germany, US, India, China, etc. (2019).
  • TV item about deep sea mining for polymetallic nodules on BBC Spotlight (2016).
  • Occurred in TV item about restart of mining in Devon and Cornwall on BBC Spotlight (2019).

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University of Twente

Langezijds (building no. 19), room 1424
Hallenweg 8
7522 NH Enschede
Netherlands

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