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

- 11 Jul 2008: I'll be at the Rheology Grand Challenge Workshop on Plastic Deformation of Minerals and the Dynamics of Earth's Deep Interior at MIT in Boston, 1-3 August 2008.
- 19 May 2008: I'll be at ICOTOM (International Conference on the Textures of Materials) in Pittsburgh from June 1st to June 6th, 2008.
- 07 Jan 2008: Happy new year! As a Christmas gift, a new publication, in Science, with N. Hilairet as first author: High-pressure creep of serpentine, interseismic deformation, and initiation of subduction.
- 08 Dec 2007: I'll be at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting next week in San Francisco. See you there!
- 13 Nov 2007: I am on a new publication in Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, with K. Niwa as first author: Lattice preferred orientation in CaIrO₃ perovskite and post-perovskite formed by plastic deformation under pressure.
- 25 Aug 2007: Myself, Y. Wang, and S. Karato will chair a session at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco. I'll be the session MR02: Plasticity of Minerals at High Pressures and Temperatures and Implications for Deep Earth Rheology and Anisotropy. Please send us your abstracts!