Geochemistry
The foundation
Sampling, analytical work, geoscientific context, and scientific reasoning remain essential.
Geochemistry × Computer Science
Geochemical Informatics, grounded in geochemical evidence.
Geochemical Informatics develops new ways to work with geochemical evidence. It connects fieldwork, laboratory analysis, and geoscientific reasoning with advances in computer and data science.
This website presents my research and a vision for future developments. It is intended to become a starting point, a place to share methods, questions, and emerging results. I hope that new ideas and directions will grow from collaborations across geochemistry, computer science, and related fields.
The idea
Beyond applying existing tools
The idea of Geochemical Informatics is not simply adding more statistics or models to geochemical studies. It is about developing computational approaches around the questions, constraints, and opportunities of geochemistry.
Informatics
From measurement to meaning
Explore how machine learning, LLMs, and data-centric methods can support research workflows.
Integration & Sharing
Scientifically meaningful methods
Design and evaluate tools meeting geochemical constraints and validity. Share workflows to enable everyone to examine, reproduce, and adapt them.
Research vision
How can we learn more?
Advances in analytical instrumentation have transformed what geochemists can measure. The next challenge is to develop equally thoughtful methods for working with increasingly rich data, without losing sight of the samples and the processes those data represent.
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The person behind the research
My name is David Ernst Styn, and I am a trace metal geochemist with a keen interest in computer and data science. I developed expertise in critical metals such as germanium, gallium, and rare earth elements by investigating their behaviour in natural Earth systems. As my research required more advanced data processing, I found joy in developing computational tools to evaluate my results. Over time, I turned that interest into expertise.
My academic career began with research on the early Earth. Today, I work at the intersection of geochemistry and computer science.
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