- Scanning electron microscope EVO LS 10 SEM; Variable pressure SEM with full digital documentation system, installed in 2009.
- Transmission electron microscope LEO 906 TEM; 60-120 kV, with high resolution digital camera and conventional photography on negative film, purchased and installed in 2011.
- Electron microprobe JEOL JXA-8500F with field emission cathode and five wavelength-dispersive and one energy-dispersive spectrometer for microanalysis from boron to uranium. Installed in 2007
- Scanning electron microscope JEOL JSM-6610LV with LaB6 cathode und Bruker AXS Quantax 800 EDX system, low vacuum option, Cathodoluminescence detector (b/w), Bruker Quantax CrystAlign 400 EBSD System, installed in 2009
- Stable isotope lab with DELTA V Advantage mass spectrometer equipped with a GASBench II for carbonate samples and integrated auto sampler A200S. In addition 2 Thermo Flash EA 1112 element analyzers are attached via a Finnigan ConFlo III 2 continuous sample supply. Installed in 2007
- Molecular analysis: DNA Laboratory including a Perkin-Elmer Thermocycler and an ABI PrismTM377 Sequencer, both installed in 2007.
- High-resolution X-ray computer tomograph (µCT) Phoenix GE Nanotom
- X-ray facility for non-invasive studies of skeletal morphology
- Handheld X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (Bruker TRACER IV SD) for non-distructive in situ major and trace element analysis of minerals, rocks, fossils and other objects. Spot size of approximately 5mm. Installed in 2011.
- X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (Bruker AXS S8 Tiger) with automatic sample charger, used for anorganic quantitative major and trace element analysis on mineral and rock samples. Installed in 2008
- Cathode luminescence microscope HC3-LM, running with a hot cathode. Installed in 2002
- Raman microscope spectrometer DILOR LabRAM with 3 integrated He-Ne-Laser, equipped with an xy scanning stage, installed in 2012
- Confocal laser scanning microscope Leica TCS-SPE
- Computer Cluster for parallel and serial scientific computing in geo- and bioinformatics with 400 cores and 2.4 TB memory in total
- Laservibrometer Polytec PDV-100
- 2 AMIRA computer stations.
- Extensive facilities for light microscopy with digital photography; various LEITZ and ZEISS research light microscopes with Nomarsky contrast, fluorescence, phase contrast, polarization, mostly with digital documentation systems, installed from 1993 onwards.
- Extensive facilities for preparation and investigation of animals, fossil, rocks, minerals, and histological material, including micropaleontology, thin sections, bulk sample maceration, and handling of HF methods .
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