VIBE lab

As I am building my lab, I am always interested in prospective graduate students and postdocs reaching out to me! My funding situation is very variable year-on-year, but there are always oppertunities to write grants together/explore options. If you are interested in working with me, please send an email with your CV and a few paragraphs about your interests and how they would fit into the VIBE lab. 

My interests are very broad, spanning mantle melting, storage and transport of magmas in the crust, controls on eruption style, and the release of volatile elements into the atmosphere. I am also passionate about the development of Open-Source Python3 tools. I am setting up a Raman lab for measurements of melt and fluid inclusions, and will be getting a new FEG-SEM with EDS-WDS-EBSD. If you are interested in combining modelling and state-of-the-art microanalytical measurements, please get in touch!

Postdoc funding opportunities:

1. Miller Fellowship - Sept Oct deadline each year: https://miller.berkeley.edu/fellowship

2. UC Presidents postdoctoral fellowship - Focus on diversity. https://ppfp.ucop.edu/info/ . Nov 1st deadline

 "The University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program was established in 1984 to encourage outstanding women and minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue academic careers at the University of California. "

3. NSF postdoctoral fellowship - US citizens/residents only - https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21605/nsf21605.htm

4.  We can write a standard NSF grant together with you as a listed postdoc (all nationalities!)

Facilities

WITEc alpha300R Raman microscope + calibration cell

• We have an alpha300R confocal Raman spectrometer from WITEC, with 5, 20, 50 and 100X objectives. It can go to 50mW. We also have a custom built stage for a peltier plate, allowing easy heating of samples above the critical point of CO2

• The wonderful Charlotte DeVitre (pictured) built a gas calibration cell, adapting on her design in DeVitre et al. 2021. This allows us to precisely determine the relationship between diad splitting and CO2 density bewteen 0 and ~1.05 g/cm3. In this cell, pressure and temperature are tightly constrained using a pressure tranducer and high precision thermistor. 

Sample Preparation Laboratory 

• We have a sample preparation lab designed for preparing melt and fluid inclusions. We have fully adjustable desks for accesability, with a number of different scopes, and polishing materials.