Sébastien Merkel

CNRS Associate Scientist
Laboratoire de Structure et Propriétés de l'Etat Solide
Université de Lille

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

- 07 May 2009: New page on this site, the first in a while: VPN connections to université Lille 1 with Linux
- 07 May 2009: New publication in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, with Lowell Miyagi: Diamond anvil cell deformation of CaSiO₃ perovskite up to 49 GPa
- 26 Feb 2009: Winter holidays, and a new publication in Physical Review B, with Carlos Tomé and Rudy Wenk: Modeling analysis of the influence of plasticity on high pressure deformation of hcp-Co.
- 28 Jan 2009: I'm just returning from the 3rd Japanese-French Frontiers of Science Symposium at Shonnan Village Center in Kanagawa, Japan: interresting meeting with a very diverse audience...
- 25 Nov 2008: I'll be at the 2008 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco from the 15th to the 19th of December.
- 20 Sep 2008: I'll be at the forum 2008 of the French high pressure network from the 6th to the 10th of October in Batz sur Mer (Bretagne). I will also go to the school on structure and dynamics of the deep Mantle in Les Houches (near Chamonix) from the 12th to the 17th of October.