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Kelsey Prissel
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: kprissel@carnegiescience.edu
Research interests:
>High-temperature geochemistry
>Experimental petrology
>Planetary differentiation; planetary materials
Megan Duncan
Postdoctoral Associate, 2015-2017
Email: mduncan@carnegiescience.edu
Research interests:
>Origins and formation of Earth and Mars,
and other terrestrial bodies
>Mantle and core geochemistry/petrology
>Planetary scale volatile cycling
Renbiao Tao
Postdoctoral Associate, 2016-2018
Email: rtao@carnegiescience.edu
Research interests:
>The role of water and carbon in the mantle
>Behavior of trace elements during melting and dehydration of the mantle
>Thermodynamic properties of phases
>The parthenogenesis of various meteorite groups
Zhixue Du
Carnegie Fellow, 2015-2017
Email: zdu@carnegiescience.edu
Research interests:
>Composition of the Earth's core
>Melting of mantle and core materials
>High-pressure techniques
Neil Bennett
Carnegie Fellow, 2013-2016
Email: n.bennett.geo@gmail.com
Research interests:
>Element distribution during core formation
>The stages and conditions of terrestrial accretion
>Element speciation at reducing conditions
>Platinum group metal behavior in magmatic systems
>The role of non-metals in liquid metallic alloys
Zhisheng Zhao
Postdoctoral Associate, 2013-2015
Email: zzhao@ysu.edu.cn
Research interests:
>High-pressure science and technology
>Physical properties of materials at high P and T
>Structural predictions and high-pressure synthesis of new functional materials
Hitoshi Gomi
Postdoctoral Associate, 2014-2016
Email: hitoshi.gomi@okayama-u.ac.jp
Research interests:
>Electrical resistivity and thermal conductivity of the Earth's and planetary interiors
>Physical properties of metals under high pressure and temperature
>Thermal evolution and dynamics of planetary cores
Colin Jackson
Carnegie Fellow, 2014-2016
Email: colinrmjackson@gmail.com
Research interests:
>High temperature and pressure experimental geochemistry
>Early Earth geochemistry
>Noble gas geochemistry
Xiaojun Hu
Visiting Investigator, 2017-2018
Wuhan University of Technology
Email: xjhu@whut.edu.cn
Research interests:
>Materials properties at high pressure
>Shockwave physics
>Development of high-pressure techniques
Ye Wu
Visiting Investigator, 2017-2018
Wuhan University of Technology
Email: yew@whut.edu.cn
Research interests:
>Materials properties at high pressure
>Mantle mineralogy
>Phase transitions and crystal chemistry at high pressure
Haijun Huang
Visiting Investigator, 2017-2018
Professor, Wuhan University of Technology
Email: hjhuang@whut.edu.cn
Research interests:
>Shock wave physics
>Physical properties of metals and silicate under extreme conditions
>Composition of the Earth's core
Qin Zou
Visiting Investigator, 2016-2017
Yanshan University
Email: zq@ysu.edu.cn
Research interests:
>Materials properties at high pressure
>Diamond synthesis
>Application of super-hard materials
Jiuxing Xia
Pre-doctoral Associate, 2014-2015
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
Email: jxia@carnegiescience.edu
Research interests:
>Isotopic fractionation between the core and mantle
>Accretion and evolution of the Earth and and other planets
>Composition of the Earth's interior
Fang Huang
Pre-doctoral Associate, 2014
Johns Hopkins University
Email: fhuang@carnegiescience.edu
Research interests:
>Deep Carbon Cycle
>High P-T Fluid Geochemistry
>Thermodynamic Calculations
Ronit Kessel
Visiting Investigator, 2014-2015
Senior Lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Email: rkessel@carnegiescience.edu
Research interests:
>The role of water and carbon in the mantle
>Behavior of trace elements during melting and dehydration of the mantle
>Thermodynamic properties of phases
>The parthenogenesis of various meteorite groups
Yuan Yin
Pre-doctoral Associate, 2019-2020
Home Institute: Institute of Geochemistry, CAS
Email: yinyuan@mail.gyig.ac.cn
Research interests:
>Experimental mineral physics
>High-pressure phase relations
>Properties of planetary cores
Austin Gion
Postdoctoral Associate, 2020
Home Institute: University of Maryland
Email: agion@umd.edu
Research interests:
>Petrology
>Mineralogy
>Economic Geology
Asmaa Boujibar
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2021
Email: aboujibar@carnegiescience.edu
Research interests:
>Earth and terrestrial planets’ accretion and differentiation
>Collisional erosion of differentiated planetary bodies
>Crystallization of magma ocean, partial melting of planetary mantles
>Evolution of the oxidation state during planetary differentiation
>Thermodynamic modeling of chemical equilibria
Amanda Lindoo
Postdoctoral Associate, 2017-2019
Email: alindoo@carnegiescience.edu
Research interests:
>Experimental petrology and volcanology
>Planetary interior processes
>Core formation of small planetary bodies
>Transport properties at high pressure
Yunxiu Li
Pre-doctoral Associate, 2018-2020
Home Institute: Peking University
Email: liyunxiu@pku.edu.cn
Research interests:
>Mineral phase transition at high pressure and temperature
>UHP metamorphism
>Precambrian geology
Lin Wang
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2020
Email: liwang@carnegiescience.edu
Research interests:
>Rheology of earth materials, and their applications
>High pressure generation and technology
>Phase transformation and thermodynamic modeling