Sébastien Merkel

Professor
Mineral Physics team
Unité Matériaux Et Transformations (UMET)
Université Lille 1

Research interests

Elasticity and deformation under deep-Earth conditions
Mineralogy at high pressure and high temperature
Texture and preferred orientations
Seismic anisotropy
X-ray diffraction
Raman Spectroscopy
Diamond anvil cell

Latest news

- 16 May 2012: I'll be at the 2012 Gordon Conference on Research at High Pressure at the University of New England, Biddeford, Maine, June 24-29, 2012.
- 05 Apr 2012: I'll be at the Plasticité 2012 congress in Metz 11-13 April 2012.
- 16 Mar 2012: yet another new publication in the Journal of Applied Crystallography today, from C. Bollinger, my PhD student: In situ quantitative analysis of stress and texture development in forsterite aggregates deformed at 6 GPa and 1373 K
- 09 Mar 2012: new publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research today, from C. Nisr, my former PhD student: High resolution three-dimensional X-ray diffraction study of dislocations in grains of MgGeO3 post-perovskite at 90 GPa
- 24 Feb 2012: new publication, in Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, along with M. Gruson, Y. Wang, N. Nishiyama, and C. N. Tomé: Texture and elastic strains in hcp-iron plastically deformed up to 17.5 GPa and 600 K: experiment and model.
- 15 Feb 2012: I'll be at the EMPG 2012 in Kiel, Germany, March 4-7 2012.