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Sébastien MerkelProfessor
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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
- 15 Jan 2012: a new publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research along with N. Hilairet, Y. Wang, T. Sanehira, and S. Mei : An in situ high-pressure, high-temperature study using monochromatic synchrotron radiation.
- 04 Jan 2012: a new publication in Acta Materiala to start the new year, along with W. Kanitpanyacharoen, L. Miyagi, P. Kaercher, C. N. Tomé, Y. Wang, and H. R. Wenk: Significance of mechanical twinning in hexagonal metals at high pressure.
- 01 Dec 2011: today, Carole Nisr, my first graduate student, will defend her thesis entitled "Caractérisation des dislocations in-situ dans les minéraux sous haute pression".
- 26 Nov 2011: I'll be at the AGU Fall Meeting, Dec. 5-9 2011 in San Francisco. I'll be giving two talks, co-author a couple of posters, and will chair the MR23C and MR43A session, Earth Materials Under Compression: Advances in Experimental and Numerical Methods, Tuesday afternoon in room 3022 and Thursday afternoon in halls A-C.
- 29 Oct 2011: Since June 2011, I have made Multifit and Polydefix open source, under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2. Basic user manual remains here, on my webpage. The source code for Multifit and Polydefix has been moved to the Multifit-polydefix homepage at google code.
- 27 Oct 2011: New publication about seismic anisotropy in the Earth inner core, in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors with R. Deguen and P. Cardin from Grenoble and R. Lebensohn from Los Alamos: Texturing in Earth’s inner core due to preferential growth in its equatorial belt, [doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2011.08.008].

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