Alexander Seyfarth

Alexander Seyfarth

Alexander Seyfarth is an X-ray spectroscopist with over 20 years of experience with XRF and XRD. Alexander holds a Diploma in Mineralogy from University Giessen (1996). Starting as an Application Scientist in Germany with Siemens, he was transferred to the US where he is now a proud citizen, still living in the Midwest (Wisconsin). As the resident “Geoscientist” he travelled within the Americas to mine sites, cement plants, and quarries and presented application and theory-based talks at trade shows and conferences for Bruker and Thermo Fisher Scientific in various functions. With a group of other XRF trainers, he continued the XRF course from the University of Western Ontario and moved it to Hamilton College; expanding it also back to its roots in South Africa. He is an Associated Volunteer Researcher with the Colorado School of Mines as of 2021 for direct XRF core scanning and hyperspectral imaging. Since 2017, Alexander has been back full-time in the geochemistry world as Global Technical Manager for XRF with SGS Natural Resource Division and is active in both SGS internal technical formation as well as externally with a focus on the new and smaller devices, such as PXRF and Micro Libs. His professional interest lies in research, promoting, and expanding XRF (and LIBS on solids) within the community as well as modern gamma activation analysis for gold assaying. His focus for AAG volunteer work would be within the training and education of future geochemists as well as promoting and establishing best practices for new types of instrumentation leveraging his extensive contacts with the various instrument vendors. His experience in social media and marketing can be applied to AAG’s LinkedIn outreach as well as promoting AAG on the web.