Research Interests

• Relationship between rock deformation, geochemistry, & isotope systematics

• Prediction of geophysical characteristics from microstructural analysis

• Fluid-melt-rock reactions in the Earth’s mantle

• Compositional heterogeneities in the Earth's mantle

• Fluids & volatiles in the Earth’s mantle & crust

• Exhumation of high-pressure metamorphic rocks

• Prograde & retrograde evolution of eclogites

• Strain localization & weakening processes in shear zones

• Seismic properties of crustal & upper mantle rocks

Current Major Project

• Petrotectonic evolution of the Yugu mantle shear zone in Korea (NRF funded)