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Education and Professional Experience:
7/1996-present Senior Staff Member, Earth and Planets Laboratory,
Carnegie Institution for Science
7/1991-6/1996 Associate Staff Member, Geophysical Laboratory,
12/1992-12/1995 Norton Senior Fellow, Norton Company
7/1989-7/1991 Postdoctoral Fellow, Geophysical Laboratory,
7/1988-7/1989 Predoctoral Fellow, Geophysical Laboratory,
9/1984-7/1989 City University of New York, Ph.D. 1989
9/1982-7/1984 Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
9/1978-7/1982 Zhejiang University, China, B.S. 1982
Awards, Membership, and Activities in Professional Societies:
2025 CUNY Alumni Achievement Award
2018 Mineral name: Feiite
2013 Geochemistry Fellow of the Geochemical Society (GS) and the European Association of Geochemistry (EAG)
2010 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
2000 Crosby Visiting Lectureship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
1999 Mineralogical Society of America Award
1999 Life Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
1992-1996 Norton Senior Fellow
1990 Hou Defeng Medal, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1989 Distinguished Scholar Dissertation Award, City University of New York
Member, American Geophysical Union, Mineralogical Society of America, Geochemical Society
DOE, NASA, NSF proposal review panels
AGU mineral and rock physics committee (2000-2002)
Spring AGU meeting program committee (2000-2003)
NSF COMRES facility committee (2002-2006)
Associate editor, American Mineralogists (2000-2004)
Guest editor, Chinese Science Bulletin (2003-2005)
Associate editor, Journal of Geophysical Research (2001-2010)
Chair, International Professionals for the Advancement of Chinese Earth Sciences (IPACES) (2006-2007)
AGU medal committee (2010-2012)
NSF COMRES Executive committee (2012-2015)
MSA Fellowship committee (2015-2017)
AGU College of Fellows Steering Committee (2016-2020)
International Committee of the Center for Excellence in Comparative Planetology, CAS (2019-2021)
Shen-su Sun Award committee (2019-
Supervised Predoctoral Fellows (Graduate Students)
Jennifer Linton, Subrnarekha De, Jason Nicholas, Shuang-meng Zhai, Heather Watson, Kevin Wheeler, Li Zhang, Yu Wang, Lora Armstrong, Liwei Deng, Yao Wu, Hong Yang, Renbiao Tao, Huang Fang, Tingting Gu, Jurrien Knibbe, Lei Han, Jianjiang Zhu, Yanhao Lin, Edgar Steenstra, Yunxiu Li, Yuan Yin
Supervised Postdoctoral Fellows and Associates
Michael Walter (Carnegie), Yue Meng (Argonne National Laboratory), Dan Frost (Bayerisches Geoinstitut), Kei Hirose (University of Tokyo), Juergen Konzett (University of Innsbruck), Wei Li (Diamond industry), Wenjie Jiao (University of Maryland), William (Bill) G. Minarik (McGill University), Jie Li (University of Michigan), Chrystele Sanloup (University of Paris VI), James van Orman (Case Western Reserve University), Michelle Minitti (APL), Monika Koch-Muller (GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam), Wim van Westrenen (Vrije Universiteit), Gummi Gudfinnsson (University of Iceland), Mark Frank (Northern Illinois University), Kenji Mibe (University of Tokyo), Sung-Keun Lee (Seoul National University), Shantanu Keshav, Haemeyong Jung (Seoul National University), Alexandre Corgne (Université de Toulouse), Jennifer Jackson (California Institute of Technology), Liz Cottrell (Smithsonian Institution), Heather Watson (Union College), Tetsuya Komabayashi (University of Edinburgh), Zhiguo Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology), Anat Shahar (Carnegie), Konstantin Litasov (V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy), Li Zhang (HPSTAR), Angele Ricolleau (Aix-Marseille University), Chris Seagle (Sandia National Lab), Daniel Hummer (Southern Illinois University), Chi Zhang (Institute of Geology and Geophysics, CAS), Liwei Deng (Shenzhen Technology University), Katherine Crispin (Penn State), Haijun Huang (Wuhan University of Technology), Valerie Hillgren, Vincenzo Stagno (Sapienza University of Rome), Yuki Shibazaki (Tohoku University), Caitlin Murphy, Hong Liu (Institute of Earthquake Science, CEA), Zhisheng Zhao (Yanshan University), Mingqiang Hou (Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, CAS), Hitoshi Gomi (Institute for Study of the Earth's Interior, Okayama University), Ronit Kessel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Jiuxing Xia (Zhejiang University), Manik Mandal (CUNY), Colin Jackson (Tulane University), Neil Bennett (University of Toronto), Ye Wu (Wuhan University of Technology), Xiaojun Hu (Wuhan University of Technology), Qin Zou (Yanshan University), Zhixue Du (Institute of Geochemistry, CAS), Megan Duncan (Virginia Tech), Renbiao Tao (HPSTAR), Amanda Lindoo (Bristol University), Jing Yang (Carnegie), Lin Wang (Bayerisches Geoinstitut), Asmaa Boujibar (Western Washington University), Kelsey Prissel (Purdue University), Edgar Steenstra (University of Münster), Austin Gion (Université d'Orléans), Claire Zurkowski (LLNL), Longjian Xie (HPSTAR), Innocent Ezenwa (Argonne National Lab), Megan Mouser (NASA JSC), Giacomo Criniti (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Current Research Group (Postdoctoral and Predoctoral Fellows)
Yuan Yin, Xin Deng
Graduate Advisor:
S. K. Saxena
Post-doctoral Advisor:
H. K. Mao
Invited speaker and session/workshop organizer (last 10 years)
• 2015 Goldschmidt Session convener “Geochemistry of Earth's Core”
• 2015 Invited speaker at the 2nd International Symposium on Metastable Materials Science & Technology, Qinhuangdao, China
• 2015 Workshop organizer: New Frontier in Studying Chemistry under Extreme Conditions: Applications of FIB Technology, May 21-22, Shanghai
• 2015 Invited speaker at Princeton University, Sandia National Lab,
• 2016 The 4th Conference on Earth System Science (Shanghai) Session convener “Earth and Planetary Interior processes: Composition and Dynamics”
• 2016 Invited speaker at Peking University, Institute of Geology and Geophysics (CAS)
• 2017 AIRAPT Keynote in session “The Earth’s Core”
• 2017 Goldschmidt Session convener “Thermodynamics and Diffusion Kinetics within The Core and Mantle”
• 2017 Invited speaker at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Yanshan University, Gemological Institute of America, and University of Maryland.
• 2018 IUCr HP invited speaker in session “High-pressure Crystallography in Earth and Planetary Science”
• 2018 Fall AGU invited speaker in session “MR42A: Composition and Material Properties of the Core”
• 2018 Invited speaker at LLNL, Yale University, USTC (China), and Michigan State University
• 2019 APS SCCM invited speaker in session “N6: GPS: Earth and planetary materials”
• 2019 APS SCCM session chair in “D4. MS: Water”
• 2019 Fall AGU invited speaker in session “MR21A: Experimental and Analytical Advances in Mineral Studies at Extreme Conditions”
• 2019 Invited speaker at Wuhan University of Technology, Jilin University, and City University of New York
• 2020 Goldschmidt Session convener “Creation of and Interactions between Reservoirs within the Earth and Other Terrestrial Bodies”
2021 Invited talk (virtual) at 2021 High-Pressure Workshop (Aug 31 - Sept 2, Chicago)
2021 Keynote (virtual) at 2021 ACHPR-10 (Nov 21-25, Korea)
2022 Smith lecture at University of Michigan (in-person) (April 1, 2022)
2022 Invited talk (virtual) at the Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures, University of Rochester (May 12, 2022)
2022 Theme convenor and presenter (in-person) at 2022 Goldschmidt (July 9-15, Hawaii)
2022 Invited talk (in-person) at 2022 Z Fundamental Science Program (Aug 2-5, Sandia)
2022 Invited seminar at GeoForschungsZentrum – GFZ (Oct 4, 2022, Potsdam)
2023 Invited seminar at Shanghai Advanced Research in Physical Sciences (April 2023, Shanghai)
2023 Invited seminar (virtual) at FORCE, Arizona State University (May 2023)
2023 Invited seminar at Washington University (September 2023, St. Louis)
2024 Invited lecture (virtual) at Window to Deep Sea lecture series (March 2024)
2024 Keynote speaker at Workshop on Experimental Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry (October 2024, Hangzhou)
2024 Invited lectures at Zhejiang University (October 2024, Hangzhou)
2025 Keynote speaker at Nature Conference (May 2025, Shenzhen)
2026 Invited speaker at APS User Meeting (May 2026, Chicago)
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