Research Topics

• Study of Earth materials at high pressure and high temperature

• Phase transformation and crystal structure variation
• Equation of state
• Thermoelastic properties
• Elasticity tensor
• Strength and rheological properties

• Applications to study of planetary interiors

• Mineralogical Models of the Earth's Interior
• Dynamics, structure, and evolution of Earth's mantle and core
• Thermodynamically consistent models of the interior structure of Jupiter's Galilean satellites

• Experimental techniques for ultra-high pressures and temperatures

• X-ray diffraction using synchrotron radiation sources, e.g., energy-dispersive and angle-dispersive X-ray diffraction (at APS, NSLS, CHESS).
• Brillouin spectroscopy
• Raman spectroscopy
• Stable laser heating and temperature measurement system
• External resistance heating system