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

- 25 Apr 2013: new publication today, in Review of Scientific Instruments, with Paul Raterron and Caleb W. Holyoke, III: Axial temperature gradient and stress measurements in the deformation-DIA cell using alumina pistons.
- 17 Apr 2013: I will be at the Plasticité 2013 meeting, 17 April 17-19 in Paris.
- 01 Mar 2013: I will be at the TMS 2013 Annual Meeting, March 3-7 in San Antonio, Texas.
- 23 Nov 2012: I will be at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 3-7 december in San Francisco.
- 12 Nov 2012: I will be chairing a session at the Collège de France on Tuesday November 13 at the seminar entitled Structure and Dynamics of the Earth’s Deep Mantle organized by Barbara Romanowicz chair of Physics of the Earth Interior.
- 03 Oct 2012: I will be at the 8th french meeting on high pressure technology, October 22-26 2012, near Clermont-Ferrand.