Kate Kiseeva

Associate Curator, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Division of Physical Sciences

Associate Professor, Richard Gilder Graduate School

Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
212-769-5401
Dr. Kate Kiseeva in the American Museum of Natural History's Allison and Roberto Mignones Hall of Gems and Minerals.
Dr. Kate Kiseeva in the American Museum of Natural History's Allison and Roberto Mignones Halls of Gems and Minerals.
K.Kiseeva©AMNH

Education

Australian National University, Australia, PhD 2012 in Experimental Petrology

Saint-Petersburg Mining Institute, Russia, M.S. 2007 in Mineralogy

Saint-Petersburg Mining Institute, Russia, B.S. 2005 in Petrology, Mineralogy and Geochemistry

Research Interests

Kate is an experimental petrologist with a strong background in mineralogy and trace element geochemistry. Her main research interests include: mineralogy and petrology of the deep sublithospheric mantle, the oxidation state of the Earth’s mantle, the deep carbon cycle, the distribution of trace elements during mantle melting, sulphide and chalcophile element geochemistry, kimberlite genesis and diamond inclusions.

She is specifically interested in the oxidation state of the deep earth that she addressed through Mössbauer Synchrotron Spectroscopy (ESRF, Grenoble, France) applied to inclusions in diamonds. Her other research interest revolves around cratonic mantle metasomatism and the formation of low-degree melts in the cratonic mantle, which she studies using mantle xenoliths from kimberlite pipes worldwide. Additionally, she is also interested in mantle sulphides, their types and occurrences in lithospheric and sublithospheric mantle.

Publications

Kiseeva, E. S., Fonseca R. O. C., Beyer, C., Li, Y. (2026) Sulfur and sulfides in the Earth’s mantle. Book chapter. In “The Role of Sulfur in Planetary Processes: from Cores to Atmospheres” Harlov and Pokrovski eds. Springer.

Kiseeva, E. S., Davies, R. M., Korolev, N. M., Ma, Sh., Jollands, M. C., Liu, L., Zhang, H., Kupenko, I., Chumakov A (2026). Geochemistry of the Wyoming craton from eclogite xenoliths from the Aultman, Maxwell, and Schaffer kimberlites on the Colorado-Wyoming State Line. Lithos 522-523, p.108325

Wang, W., Korolev, N. M., Kiseeva, E. S., Davies, R. M., Weiss, Y., Kopylova, M., Huang, F., Moore, A. E., Vasilev, E. A. (2025) Formation of spongy clinopyroxene: insights from eclogitic inclusions in diamonds. Journal of Petrology 66(5), egaf036

Kiseeva, E. S., Kamenetsky V. S., Chayka, Y. F., Maas, R., Nielsen T. F. D., (2025) Alkali-carbonate melts in the cratonic mantle evidenced by a wehrlite xenolith from the Majuagaa kimberlite, West Greenland. Geology 53(1), p.89-93.

Chen, Z., Ding, X., Kiseeva, E. S., Lin, X., Huang, J., Huang, F. (2023) Vanadium isotope fractionation of alkali basalts during mantle melting. Lithos 442-443, pp 107082.

Kiseeva, E. S., Korolev, N., Koemets, I., Zedgenizov, D. A., Unitt, R., McCammon, C., Aslandukova, A., Khandarkhaeva, S., Fedotenko, T., Glazyrin, K., Bessas, D., Aprilis, G., Chumakov, A. I., Kagi, H., Dubrovinsky, L. (2022) Subduction-related oxidation of the lower mantle: evidence from diamond inclusions. Nature Communications 13(1), p.7517.

Dewey, J., Kiseeva, E. S., Pearce J., Robb, L. (2021). Tectonic evolution of Earth: an outline. South African Journal of Geology 124(1), p. 141-162.

Kiseeva, E. S., Yuzmukhametov, R. N. (2021). Women at the dawn of diamond discovery in Siberia or how two women discovered the Siberian diamond province. In: Burek, C. V. and Higgs, B. (eds). Celebrating 100 years of female fellowship of the Geological Society: Discovering forgotten histories. Geological society, London, Special Publications, 506.

Xia, Y., Kiseeva E. S., Wade, J., Huang, F. (2019). The effect of lunar core segregation on the Cu and Zn isotope content of the silicate Moon, Geochemical Perspectives Letters 12, p. 12-17.

Kiseeva E. S., Vasiukov D. M., Wood B. J., McCammon C., Stachel T., Bykov M., Bykova E., Chumakov A., Cerantola V., Harris J. F., Dubrovinsky L. (2018). Oxidised iron in garnets from the mantle transition zone, Nature Geoscience, 11, p. 144-147.

Teaching Experience

Faculty appointments:

  • Assistant Curator of Mineralogy, American Museum of Natural History 2023 - present
  • Senior Lecturer (level of Associate Professor), School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Ireland, 2023
  • Lecturer (level of Assistant Professor), School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Ireland, 2018-2023
  • NERC Independent Research Fellow, Department of Earth Science, University of Oxford, UK, 2015-2018

Courses taught:

  • Geochemistry, University College Cork, 2017-2023
  • Economic Geology, University College Cork, 2018-2023
  • Frontiers in Geoscience, University College Cork, 2022
  • Field training modules in Antrim (2019), Isle of Mull (2018, 2019), Burren (2022) - University College Cork
  • Igneous Petrology, University of Oxford, 2016

Professional Service

  • 2022 - 2024 – European Association of Geochemistry, Secretary.
  • 2021 – Goldschmidt (Lyon) Organising committee (~3,000 attendees). Early Career Programme Leader and Chair of Theme 14.
  • 2019 - 2022 – European Association of Geochemistry, Councillor.

Editorship

  • 2023 – Present: Section Editor in Mineralogy and Crystallography for Lithosphere
  • 2020 - Present: Advisory Board of Physics and Chemistry of Minerals 
  • 2019 – 2024: Associate Editor for American Mineralogist.