Research interests
· The rheology of earth materials, especially of olivine
· High pressure generation in a multi-anvil apparatus
· Phase transformation and thermodynamic modeling
Academic education
09/2018 – present Carnegie fellow, Geophysical Laboratory, USA
10/2014 – 09/2018 Ph.d Student, Bayerisches Geoinstitut. University of Bayreuth, Germany.
10/2012 – 09/2014 M. Sc. (with distinction) in Experimental Geoscience, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
09/2011 – 09/2012 Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
09/2007– 07/2011 B. E. (Rank 1st) in Resource Exploration Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Anhui, China
Scientific Skills
· High-pressure and high-temperature technique using a multi-anvil (MA) apparatus combined with tungsten carbide (WC)
· In-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction combined with MA apparatus
· X-ray diffraction and FTIR spectroscopy
· Scanning Electron Microprobe (SEM) observation and analysis
· Transmission Electron Microprobe (TEM) observation and analysis
Publications
v Publications with peer reviewed journals
1. Wang, L., T. Kawazoe, N. Miyajima, and T. Katsura (2019), Activation of [100](001) slip system by water incorporation in olivine and the cause of seismic anisotropy decrease with depth in the asthenosphere. American Mineralogist, 104(1), 47-52.
2. Wang, L., S. Blaha, T. Kawazoe, N. Miyajima, and T. Katsura (2017), Identical activation volumes of dislocation mobility in the [100](010) and [001](010) slip systems in natural olivine, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 2687-2692.
3. Wang, L., S. Blaha, Z. Pintér, R. Farla, T. Kawazoe, N. Miyajima, K. Michibayashi, and T. Katsura (2016), Temperature dependence of [100](010) and [001](010) dislocation mobility in natural olivine, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 441, 81-90.
4. Ishii, T., Huang, R., Fei, H., Koemets, I., Liu, Z., Maeda, F., Yuan, L., Wang, L., Druzhbin, D., Yamamoto, T. and Bhat, S., 2018. Complete agreement of the post-spinel transition with the 660-km seismic discontinuity. Scientific reports, 8(1), p.6358.
5. Liu, Z., Nishi, M., Ishii, T., Fei, H., Miyajima, N., Ballaran, T.B., Ohfuji, H., Sakai, T., Wang, L., Shcheka, S., Arimoto, T., Tange, Y., Higo, Y., Irifune, T., and Katsura, T. (2017) Phase Relations in the System MgSiO3-Al2O3 up to 2300 K at Lower Mantle Pressures. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth.
6. Ishii, T., Yamazaki, D., Tsujino, N., Xu, F., Liu, Z., Kawazoe, T., Yamamoto, T., Druzhbin, D., Wang, L., Higo, Y., Tange, Y., Yoshino, T., and Katsura, T. (2017) Pressure generation to 65 GPa in a Kawai-type multi-anvil apparatus with tungsten carbide anvils. High Pressure Research, 37(4), 507-515.
7. T. Ishii, L. Shi, R. Huang, N. Tsujino, D. Druzhbin, R. Myhill, Y. Li, L. Wang, T. Yamamoto, N. Miyajima, T. Kawazoe, N. Nishiyama, Y. Higo, Y. Tange, and T. Katsura (2016), Generation of pressures over 40 GPa using Kawai-type multi-anvil press with tungsten carbide anvils, Review of Scientific Instruments, 87, 024501.
v Further publications
1. Wang, L. and T. Katsura, Identical activation volumes of dislocation mobility in the [100](010) and [001](010) slip systems in natural olivine (Under modification).
2. Wang, L., T. Kawazoe, N. Miyajima, and T. Katsura, Small effect of water on olivine dislocation creep (Completed manuscript for submission).
3. Wang, L., T. Kawazoe, N. Miyajima, M. Thielmann and T. Katsura , A soft asthenosphere indicated by glide control of high-temperature dislocation creep of olivine (in preparation).
Conference Presentation
1. AGU (2019) Oral presentation. Activation of [100](001) slip system by water incorporation in olivine.
2. AGU (2017) Poster presentation. Negative water-content dependence of the dislocation mobility in the olivine [001](100) slip system
3. IUGG (2015) Oral presentation. Temperature and pressure dependence of dislocation mobility in the [100](010) and [001](010) slip system in olivine.
Award
04/2011 the Excellent Graduate in Virtue and Study of Altitude Academies in Anhui Province
11/2010 the National Scholarship
11/2008 the National Scholarship