In this series, we ask senior researchers to reflect on how a paper or a series of contributions influenced their thinking and led to a change in their research direction and career. Our first reflection comes from Prof. Tim Eglinton, who was professor of Biogeoscience at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences of ETH Zurich, Switzerland until his recent retirement in 2025. Throughout his c ...[Read More]
A paper that shaped my career – Tim Eglinton on Hayes et al., 1990
The Messel oil shale deposit in Germany, on which some of the first compound-specific carbon isotope analyses were conducted. Image from Wikimedia commons *