Projects & References

MASA Institute offers customised analysis strategies in the field of materials research and development as a service for industry and science.

Material composition and physical properties

  • Industry/research: Material characterisation down to the nanometre range for the analysis, optimisation or development of material properties and production processes and damage assessment
  • Industry/research: Chemical characterisation of raw materials and their origin
  • Industry/agriculture: Origin analyses of food, wood and groundwater
  • Industry/environment: heavy metal analysis of water and soils (including garden soils)
  • Geosciences/archaeometry: age determination of rocks and bones
  • Archaeometry: Reconstruction of manufacturing processes (tools, coins, weapons) and origin analyses of ceramics and other archaeological objects such as bones, ivory, mammoth teeth


services provided to date:

  • (Trace) element analyses of inorganic and organic materials
  • Optimisation of metalworking production processes
  • Determination of the properties of metallic and geological materials
  • Mineralogical and technical phase analyses of rocks and industrial materials
  • Mineralogical analyses of building materials and their source materials
  • Age dating using various isotope systems
  • Provenance analyses of foodstuffs, (industrial) raw materials, archaeological materials

Supervised theses

supervised master's theses:

  • Tee Merk

supervised bachelor's theses:

  • Tee Merk

supervised geo projects (master course):

  • Critical raw materials smart phones

Revised publications

Alles, J., Ploch, A.-M., Schirmer, T., Nolte, N., Liessmann, W., Lehmann, B. (2018): Rare earth element enrichment in post-Variscan polymetallic vein systems of the Harz Mountains, Germany. Mineralium Deposita. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-018-0847-8


Emam, A., Zoheir, B., Radwan, A.M., Lehmann, B., Zhang, R., Fawzy, S., Nolte, N. (2018): Petrogenesis and evolution of the Nuweibi rare-metal granite, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-018-4051-z

Cabral, A.R., van der Kerkhof, A.M., Sosa, G.M., Nolte, N., Ließmann, W., Lehmann, B. (2018): Clausthalite (PbSe) and tiemannite (HgSe) from the type locality: new observations and implications for metallogenesis in the Harz Mountains, Germany. Ore Geology Reviews 102, 728-739. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.09.027

Siegesmund, S., Oriolo, S., Heinrichs, T., Basei, M.A.S., Nolte, N., Hüttenrauch, F., Schulz, B., (2018): Provenance of Austroalpine basement metasediments: tightening up Early Palaeozoic connections between peri-Gondwanan domains of central Europe and Northern Africa. International Journal of Earth Science 107, 2293-2315.

López de Luchi, Mónica, G., Siegesmund, S., Wemmer, K., Nolte, N. (2017): Petrogenesis of the postcollisional Middle Devonian monzonitic to granitic magmatism of the Sierra de San Luis, Argentina. Lithos doi: 10.1016/j.lithos.2017.05.018.

Dill, H.G., Luana, L. I., Nolte, N., Hansen, B. T. (2016): Chemical, isotopic and mineralogical characteristics of volcanogenic epithermal fluorite deposits on the Permo-Mesozoic foreland of the Andean volcanic arc in Patagonia (Argentina). Chemie der Erde – Geochemistry, Volume 76, Issue 2, June 2016, Pages 275-297.

Kleinhanns, I.C., Whitehouse, M.J., Nolte, N., Baero, W., Wilsky, F., Hansen, B.T., Schoenberg, R. (2015): Mode and timing of granitoid magmatism in the Västervik area (SE Sweden, Baltic Shield): Sr–Nd isotope and SIMS U–Pb age constraints. Lithos 212-215, 321-337.

Dill, H.G., Nolte, N., Hansen, B.T. (2014): Lithology, mineralogy and geochemical characterization of sediment-hosted Sr-F deposits in the eastern Neo-Tethyan region – With special reference to evaporation and halokinesis in Tunisia. Journal of African Earth Science 92, 76-96.

Arp, G., Kolepka, C., Simon, K., Karius, V., Nolte, N., Hansen, B.T. (2013): New evidence for persistent impact-induced hydrothermal activity in the Miocene Ries impact structure, Germany. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 1-26; doi:10.1111/maps.12235.

I.C. Kleinhanns, T. Fullgraf, F. Wilsky, N. Nolte, D. Fliegel, R. Klemd and B.T. Hansen (2013.): U-Pb zircon ages and (isotope) geochemical signatures of the Kamanjab Inlier (NW-Namibia): constraints on Palaeoproterozoic crustal evolution along the southern Congo craton. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, doi: 10.1144/SP389.1.

Gernot Arp, Martin Blumenberg, Bent T. Hansen, Dietmar Jung, Claudia Kolepka, Olaf Lenz, Nicole Nolte, Klaus Poschlod, Andreas Reimer & Volker Thiel (2013): Chemical and ecological evolution of the Miocene Ries impact crater lake, Germany: A reinterpretation based on the Enkingen (SUBO 18) drill core. Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi: 10.1130/B30731.1.

Nolte, N., Kleinhanns I.C., Baero, W., Hansen, B.T, (2011): Petrography and whole-rock geochemical characteristics of Västervik granitoids to syenitoids, southeast Sweden: constraints on petrogenesis and tectonic setting at the southern margin of the Svecofennian domain. GFF 133:3-4, 173-196.

Krabbenhöft, A, Eisenhauer, A, Vollstaedt, H, Fietzke, J, Liebetrau, V, Hansen, BT, Nolte, N, Peucker-Ehrenbrink, B, Augustin, N, Wallmann, K (2010): Natural strontium isotope fractionation (87Sr/86Sr*-δ88/86Sr) in the marine realm: first application of a 87Sr/84Sr-Double Spike in order to estimate present-day global ocean strontium budget. Geochemica Cosmochemica Acta. 74, 4097-4109.

Gueye M, Siegesmund S, Wemmer K, Pawlig S, Drobe M, Nolte N, Layer P (2007): New evidences for an Early Birimian evolution in the West African Craton: An example from the Kédougou-Kénieba inlier, SE- Senegal. South African Journal of Geology, 110: 511-534

Selected conference papers

Walter, J.M., Nolte-Moser, N., Wemmer, K., Merk, S., Revay, Z. (2019): Non-Destructive Bulk Analysis of Critical Metals in Smartphones. MLZ User Meeting 2019 (10.-11.12.), München, Germany

Walter, Jens M.; Moritz, Thomas; Hillebrecht, Herbert; Klett-Drechsel, Johannes; Löbens, Stefan; Nolte, Nicole; Simon, Klaus; Weber, Roman; Wellhäuser, Alexander (2016): Herkunftsanalysen von Keramiken - Eine systematische geochemische Untersuchung mithilfe kontrollierter Brennexperimente. Jahrestagung „Archäometrie und Denkmalpflege 2016“, Göttingen, 28. September bis 01. Oktober 2016.

Jens M. Walter, Augusto Brandenburg, Herbert Hillebrecht, Johannes Klett-Drechsel, Andreas Kronz, Stefan Löbens, Thomas Moritz, Nicole Nolte, Klaus Simon, Roman Weber, Alexander Wellhäuser (2014): „Clay-DNA“– Analytic Tests for a High Resolved Determination of Ceramic Provenances and Firing Temperatures by Experiments in a Reconstructed 13th Century Furnace. Siebter Archäologischer Workshop für junge Wissenschaftler/Innen, Naturwissenschaftliche Analysen vor- und frühgeschichtlicher Keramik: Methoden, Anwendungsbereiche, Auswertungsmöglichkeiten, Hamburg, Germany, February 2014

Pospiech, S., Nolte, N., Bäro, W, Walter, J. M. (2013): Development of a new method for provenance studies of tea plant Camellia sinensis - Possibilities of fingerprinting, 16th Panalytical Symposium, Weimar, Germany, June 2013

Other contributions

Walter J.M., Nolte N., Wellhäuser, A., Kronz, A. (2015): Untersuchung ausgewählter Büsten und Statuen der Wallmodensammlung mittels portabler Röntgenfluoreszenzanalyse (pRFA) am 23.01.2014 im Archäologischen Institut der Universität Göttingen, Nikolausberger Weg 15, D-37073 Göttingen

Walter, J.M., Moritz, T., Hillebrecht, H., Klett-Drechsel, H., Löbens, S., Nolte, N., Simon, K., Weber, R., Wellhäuser, A. (2015): Clay-DNA – Neue archäometrische Untersuchungen zur Charakterisierung und Provinienz von Keramiken der Burg Plesse – Ein Feste Burg, Mitteilungen 2015, pp. 25-29, Hrsg. Freunde der Burg Plesse e.V., Bovenden, Germany

Walter J.M., Nolte N., Löbens S., Moritz T., Klett-Drechsel J., Hillebrecht H., Weber R. (2013): “Clay-DNA” - oder Provinienzanalyse von Keramiken. Ein Feste Burg – Mitteilungen 2013, 49-52, Freunde der Burg Plesse e.V.

Expertise reports

Wolter, K.-D., Gründel, A., Nolte, N. (2015) Werratalsee (Eschwege) Kurzstellungnahme der Expertenrunde. 42 S. Auftraggeber: Magistrat der Stadt Eschwege.

Public lectures

Walter, J.M., Nolte, N., Bäro, W. (2016): „MAS-Analytics: Von einer guten Idee zum Unternehmen“. PFH Entrepreneurship School 2016, 19.05.2016 Burg Ludwigstein

Nolte, N. (2015): Werratalsee Eschwege-Meinhard „Kurzstellungnahme der Expertenrunde“ – Geologie, Hydrogeologie & Hydrologie, Bewertung und Einschätzung. 06.10.2015 Meinhard-Schwebda

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