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William Shotyk
Shotyk, William, Dr.
Professor (Lecturer)
Institute of Environmental Geochemistry
University of Heidelberg
Institute of Environmental Geochemistry - University of Heidelberg
Phone: +49 6221 544803
Biography
Prof. Dr. William Shotyk is a Canadian, born in the beautiful Village of Swansea, now part of Toronto, in Ontario. Swansea is bordered by the historic Humber River to the West, Grenadier Pond and High Park to the East, and Lake Ontario to the south.
Prof. Dr. William Shotyk attended Swansea Public School and Humberside Collegiate Institute. He completed my B.Sc. (Agr.) at the University of Guelph (Soil Science and Chemistry) in 1981, and his Ph.D. (supervised by William S. Fyfe) at the University of Western Ontario (Geochemistry) in 1986.
After postdoctoral research at the University of California, Riverside (1987) with Garrison Sposito and at the University of Western Ontario (1988-9) with Wayne Nesbitt, he joined the Geological Institute at the University of Berne, Switzerland, as Oberassistent.
Prof. Shotyk completed his Habilitation (Geochemistry) at the University of Berne in 1995. In October of 2000, he joined the University of Heidelberg where he is currently Professor and Director of the Institute of Environmental Geochemistry.