Main Focus
I am a cosmochemist interested in high-precision isotope cosmochemistry applied to meteoritics, early solar system evolution, and planetary accretion and differentiation.
Curriculum Vitae
Awards and fellowships:
2024: The Barringer Family Fund for Meteorite Impact Research.
2018 – 2022: Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for pursuing a PhD in Planetary Geosciences at the Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern.
May – July 2017: SN Bose Fellowship run jointly by the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and WINStep Forward to carry out an undergraduate summer research internship in the United States of America.
May – July 2016: Two-month visiting studentship by the Deep Volatiles programme, NERC, United Kingdom.
Education and Employment:
2018 – 2022: University of Bern – Bern, Switzerland PhD in Isotope Cosmochemistry.
2013 – 2018: Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee – Roorkee, India Integrated Master of Technology in Geological Technology.
Selected Publications:
Mezger, K., Pape, J., Anand, A., Kruttasch, P., Vollstaedt, H. and Hoffmann, J. (2026): From Dust to Planets – A Chemical Perspective. Space Science Reviews (accepted for publication).
doi:10.48550/arXiv.2604.11405.
Anand, A. and Mezger, K. (2025): Chromium isotopes in CR chondrites reveal two distinct chondrule reservoirs. Icarus 441, 116714.
doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2025.116714
Anand, A., Spitzer, F., Hopp, T., Windmill, R., Kruttasch, P., Burkhardt, C., Dauphas, N., Greenwood, R., Hofmann, B., Kleine, T., and Mezger, K. (2024): Isotopic evidence for a common parent body of IIG and IIAB iron meteorites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 382, 118-127.
doi:10.1016/j.gca.2024.07.025
Anand, A., and Mezger, K. (2023): Early solar system chronology using short-lived chronometers. Geochemistry 83(3), 126004.
doi:10.1016/j.chemer.2023.126004
Anand, A., Kruttasch, P. M. and Mezger, K. (2022): 53Mn-53Cr chronology and ε54Cr-Δ17O genealogy of Erg Chech 002: The oldest andesite in the solar system. Meteoritics and Planetary Sciences 57(11), 2003–2016.
doi:10.1111/maps.13916