CV

Academic Positions

09/2019- Present Postdoctoral associate, University of California, Los Angeles

Education

09/2016-05/2019 Ph.D., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University

Thesis title: Melting of Earth Materials: Constraints from both Experiment and Density

Functional Theory

Advisors: Kanani K. M. Lee & Bijaya Karki

09/2014-09/2016 M.A., Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University

Major Discourse: Melting of (Mg, Fe)O Ferropericlase at High Pressure (> 40 GPa)

Advisor: Kanani K. M. Lee

Minor Discourse: Lowermost Mantle Anisotropy Beneath the Southeastern Pacific

Advisor: Maureen Long

09/2009-07/2013 B.S., Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences at Wuhan, P.R. China

Awards

2019 Philip M. Orville Prize, Yale Geology & Geophysics

2018 Graduate Research Award, AGU(American Geophysical Union) Study of Earth’s Deep Interior

2018 Elias Loomis Prize, Yale Geology & Geophysics

2017 Hammer Prize, Yale Geology & Geophysics

Selected Conference Proceedings & Other Talks (* denotes talk)

Deng, J.*. The Evolution of Early Earth, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2021, virtual.

Deng, J.*. The Early Evolution of Habitable Worlds, Princeton University, New Jersey, 2021, virtual.

Deng, J.*. The Early Evolution of Habitable Worlds, Carnegie Geophysical Laboratory (Earth and Planets Laboratory), Washington D.C, 2020, virtual.

Deng, J.*. Machine learning MgSiO₃ system at planetary settings, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, 2020, virtual.

Deng, J. *, Du, Z., Ghosh, D, Karki, B. & Lee, K.K.M. A magma ocean origin of the divergent redox evolutions of Earth, Mars, and Moon. Peking University, China, 2019.

Deng, J.*. Melting of Earth Materials: Constraints from both Experiments and Density Functional Theory, China University of Geosciences at Wuhan, China, 2019.

Deng, J., Lee, K. K. M. Melting depression due to electronic spin transition of iron. AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, DC, 2018.

Deng, J.*, Karki, Bijay, Ghosh, Dipta & Lee, K.K.M., First-principles simulations of pyrite-type FeO2H and its isochemical melts at high pressure, Goldschmidt Meeting, Boston, MA, 2018.

Deng, J., Lee, K. K. M. Melting phase relations in the MgO-FeO binary system and its implications for the deep Earth, CIDER Summer 2018, Santa Barbara, CA, 2018.

Deng, J., Lee, K. K. M. Implications for the melting phase relations in the MgO-FeO system at Core-Mantle Boundary conditions. AGU Fall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2017.

Deng, J.*, Lee, K. K. M. Viscosity jump in the lower mantle inferred from melting curves of (Mg, Fe)O ferropericlase. COMPRES Annual Meeting, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM, 2017.

Deng, J., Lee, K. K. M. The influence of wavelength-dependent absorption and temperature gradients on temperature determination in laser-heated diamond-anvil cells, EHPRG, Bayreuth, 2016.

Deng, J. *, Lee, K. K. M. Absorption Spectra and their Applications in High Pressure Mineral Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, 2016 (Invited).

Deng, J., Lee, K. K. M. Melting of (Mg,Fe)O Ferropericlase at High Pressure (> 40 GPa). AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2015.