Macquarie University Dorrit E. Jacob FAA is a German-born Australian geochemist.
She is the first woman to serve as Director of the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University (ANU) where she is a full professor.
[1] Jacob completed her undergraduate studies in mineralogy and geology at the University of Mainz, Germany.
[1] In 2013 Jacob moved to Australia where she took up an ARC future fellowship at Macquarie University to study the formation of bivalve shells and pearls and how they are used to reconstruct past records of climate change.
[4] On that last point, Jacob and other researchers closely examined minuscule “melts” enveloped within a diamond and found oxidation of sulfide mineral pyrrhotite can trigger the gem’s growth.