Main Focus
I am a geoscientist analyzing chemical and isotopic variations in extraterrestrial materials in order to reconstruct the formation and evolution of the Solar System and the terrestrial planets.
Curriculum Vitae
Awards:
2024 Victor-Moritz-Goldschmidt-Preis der Deutschen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft
2016 Wiley Award at the Meteoritical Society Meeting 2016 in Berlin
Education and Employment:
Since
2022: Labmanager/staff scientist, Planetary Science Department, Max
Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany
2019 – 2022: Labmanager/scientist, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
2018 – 2019: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut für Planetologie, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
2015 – 2018: Research assistant (PhD candidate), Institut für Planetologie, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
Selected Publications:
Hopp, T., Tian, S., Kleine, T. (2026) Iron isotope anomalies and the origin of the Earth. Icarus 453, 117057.
doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2026.117057
Hopp, T.,
Dauphas, N., Boyet, M., Jacobson, S.A., Kleine, T. (2025) The
Moon-forming impactor Theia originated from the inner Solar System.
Science 390, 819-823.
doi:10.1126/science.ado0623
Nie, N.X., Dauphas, N., Zhang, Z.J., Hopp, T., Sarantos, M. (2024) Lunar soil record of atmosphere loss over eons. Science Advances 10, eadm7074.
doi:10.1126/sciadv.adm7074
Hopp, T.
et al. (+92 co-authors) (2022) Ryugu's nucleosynthetic heritage from
the outskirts of the Solar System. Science Advances 8, add8141.
doi:10.1126/sciadv.add8141
Hopp, T.,
Zok, D., Kleine, T., Steinhauser, G. (2020) Non-natural ruthenium
isotope ratios of the undeclared 2017 atmospheric release consistent
with civilian nuclear activities. Nature Communications 11, 2744.
doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16316-3