from 02-2023

Assistant professor (tenure track), University of Bern, Switzerland,
Isotope Geology group

08-2019 – 01-2023 Banting post-doctoral fellow, University of Alberta, Canada
01-2019 – 07-2019 Post-doctoral researcher, University of Münster (WWU), Germany
02-2015 – 12-2018 Ph.D.  Australian National University, Australia

Thesis: Diamonds – time capsules of volatiles and the key to dynamic Earth evolution.

09-2011 – 01-2015 Student-assistant TIMS, VU University, the Netherlands
09-2012 – 10-2014 M.Sc.  VU University, the Netherlands

Earth Sciences – Solid Earth

09-2009 – 08-2012 B.Sc.  VU University, the Netherlands

Earth Sciences – Geology

 

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2023

Carvalho, Luisa; Stachel, Thomas; Pearson, GD; Timmerman, Suzette; Stern, Richard; Jalowitzki, Tiago; Scholz, Ricardo; Fuck, Reinhardt (2023). Subcretion of altered oceanic crust beneath the SW São Francisco Craton, Brazil – A stable isotope study on diamonds and their inclusions. Lithos, 460-461, p. 107395. Elsevier 10.1016/j.lithos.2023.107395

Timmerman, Suzette; Stachel, Thomas; Koornneef, Janne M; Smit, Karen V; Harlou, Rikke; Nowell, Geoff M; Thomson, Andrew R; Kohn, Simon C; Davies, Joshua H F L; Davies, Gareth R; Krebs, Mandy Y; Zhang, Qiwei; Milne, Sarah E M; Harris, Jeffrey W; Kaminsky, Felix; Zedgenizov, Dmitry; Bulanova, Galina; Smith, Chris B; Cabral Neto, Izaac; Silveira, Francisco V; ... (2023). Sublithospheric diamond ages and the supercontinent cycle. Nature, 623(7988), pp. 752-756. Springer Nature 10.1038/s41586-023-06662-9

2022

Carvalho, Luísa D.V.; Stachel, Thomas; Pearson, D. Graham; Fuck, Reinhardt A.; Jalowitzki, Tiago; Timmerman, Suzette; Steele-Maclnnis, Matthew; Gonçalves, Guilherme O.; Pereira, Rogério Silvestre; Scholz, Ricardo (2022). Diamond formation beneath the Coromandel area, southwestern São Francisco Craton – The role of re-fertilization and subduction. Lithos, 430-431, p. 106856. Elsevier 10.1016/j.lithos.2022.106856

Timmerman, S.; Reimink, J.R.; Vezinet, A.; Nestola, F.; Kublik, K.; Banas, A.; Stachel, T.; Stern, R.A.; Luo, Y.; Sarkar, C.; Ielpi, A.; Currie, C.A.; Mircea, C.; Jackson, V.; Pearson, D.G. (2022). Mesoarchean diamonds formed in thickened lithosphere, caused by slab-stacking. Earth and planetary science letters, 592, p. 117633. Elsevier 10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117633

Smit, Karen V.; Timmerman, Suzette; Aulbach, Sonja; Shirey, Steven B.; Richardson, Stephen H.; Phillips, David; Pearson, D. Graham (2022). Geochronology of Diamonds. Reviews in mineralogy and geochemistry, 88(1), pp. 567-636. Mineralogical Society of America 10.2138/rmg.2022.88.11

2021

González-Jiménez, José M.; Aulbach, Sonja; Smit, Karen V.; Timmerman, Suzette; Giuliani, Andrea; Mondal, Sisir K. (2021). Origin and evolution of continental mantle lithosphere and its resource endowment: Preface. Lithos, 384-385, p. 105965. Elsevier 10.1016/j.lithos.2021.105965

Timmerman, Suzette; Spivak, Anna V.; Jones, Adrian P. (2021). Carbonatitic Melts and Their Role in Diamond Formation in the Deep Earth. Elements, 17(5), pp. 321-326. Mineralogical Society of America 10.2138/GSELEMENTS.17.5.321

Gress, M. U.; Timmerman, S.; Chinn, I. L.; Koornneef, J. M.; Thomassot, E.; van der Valk, E. A. S.; van Zuilen, K.; Bouden, N.; Davies, G. R. (2021). Two billion years of episodic and simultaneous websteritic and eclogitic diamond formation beneath the Orapa kimberlite cluster, Botswana. Contributions to mineralogy and petrology, 176(7) Springer-Verlag 10.1007/s00410-021-01802-8

2019

Timmerman, S.; Honda, M.; Zhang, X.; Jaques, A.L.; Bulanova, G.; Smith, C.B.; Burnham, A.D. (2019). Contrasting noble gas compositions of peridotitic and eclogitic monocrystalline diamonds from the Argyle lamproite, Western Australia. Lithos, 344-345, pp. 193-206. Elsevier 10.1016/j.lithos.2019.06.027

Timmerman, S.; Honda, M.; Burnham, A. D.; Amelin, Y.; Woodland, S.; Pearson, D. G.; Jaques, A. L.; Le Losq, C.; Bennett, V. C.; Bulanova, G. P.; Smith, C. B.; Harris, J. W.; Tohver, E. (2019). Primordial and recycled helium isotope signatures in the mantle transition zone. Science, 365(6454), pp. 692-694. American Association for the Advancement of Science 10.1126/science.aax5293

Timmerman, S.; Krebs, M.Y.; Pearson, D.G.; Honda, M. (2019). Diamond-forming media through time – Trace element and noble gas systematics of diamonds formed over 3 billion years of Earth’s history. Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 257, pp. 266-283. Elsevier Science 10.1016/j.gca.2019.05.014

Timmerman, Suzette; Yeow, Hanling; Honda, Masahiko; Howell, Daniel; Jaques, A. Lynton; Krebs, Mandy Y.; Woodland, Sarah; Pearson, D. Graham; Ávila, Janaína N.; Ireland, Trevor R. (2019). U-Th/He systematics of fluid-rich ‘fibrous’ diamonds – Evidence for pre- and syn-kimberlite eruption ages. Chemical geology, 515, pp. 22-36. Elsevier 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.04.001

2018

Timmerman, S.; Jaques, A.L.; Weiss, Y.; Harris, J.W. (2018). N-δ13C-inclusion profiles of cloudy diamonds from Koffiefontein: Evidence for formation by continuous Rayleigh fractionation and multiple fluids. Chemical geology, 483, pp. 31-46. Elsevier 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.02.024

Timmerman, Suzette; Honda, Masahiko; Phillips, David; Jaques, Alan L.; Harris, Jeffrey W. (2018). Noble gas geochemistry of fluid inclusions in South African diamonds: implications for the origin of diamond-forming fluids. Mineralogy and petrology, 112(S1), pp. 181-195. Springer 10.1007/s00710-018-0603-x

Timmerman, Suzette; Chinn, Ingrid L.; Fisher, David; Davies, Gareth R. (2018). Formation of unusual yellow Orapa diamonds. Mineralogy and petrology, 112(S1), pp. 209-218. Springer 10.1007/s00710-018-0592-9

2017

Timmerman, S.; Koornneef, J.M.; Chinn, I.L.; Davies, G.R. (2017). Dated eclogitic diamond growth zones reveal variable recycling of crustal carbon through time. Earth and planetary science letters, 463, pp. 178-188. Elsevier 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.02.001

2016

Timmerman, S.; Matveev, S.; Gress, M.U.; Davies, G.R. (2016). Corrigendum to A methodology for wavelength dispersive electron probe microanalysis of unpolished silicate minerals [J. Geochem. Explor. 159 (2015) 243–251]. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 160, p. 55. Elsevier 10.1016/j.gexplo.2015.11.007

2015

Timmerman, S.; Matveev, S.; Gress, M.U.; Davies, G.R. (2015). A methodology for wavelength dispersive electron probe microanalysis of unpolished silicate minerals. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 159, pp. 243-251. Elsevier 10.1016/j.gexplo.2015.09.016