Last week, Allison Pease and Luisa Chavarría attended the winter workshop at FORCE, Arizona State University. They presented posters on “Thermal Equation of State of Transition-Metal-Bearing Davemaoite and Implications for Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces (LLSVPs)” and “Role Of Iron Concentration In The Incorporation Of Sodium Into Ferropericlase In The Earth’s Lower Mantle.” They brought home both of the two student poster awards (sponsored by Corning)! Well done!
Thank you to Wen-Pin Hsieh for hosting my sabbatical visit to the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, starting Fall semester 2023!
Devika Padmakumar has joined our lab as a new Ph.D. student! Devika earned her B.S. and M.S. from the University of Kerala. Welcome!
The Experimental Mineralogy lab (PI: Dr. Susannah Dorfman, https://sukidorfman.rocks/join-us/) in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at Michigan State University is searching for a postdoctoral research associate – fixed term to carry out research in high-pressure experimental physics and chemistry of minerals and other complex materials.
The Postdoctoral Research Associate must hold a PhD in Earth & Environmental Sciences, Physics, Materials Science, or other applicable field before start of the position. The duration of the initial appointment will be 12 months, with a possibility of extension based on performance and funding. Review of applications will begin September 1, 2023.
Previous experience with techniques including any of the following is preferred but not required: diamond anvil cell, synchrotron X-ray techniques, laser spectroscopy, and electron microscopy.
The minimum annual salary for research associates at Michigan State University is $50,637. Salary is negotiable within available grant funding. For more information about benefits at MSU, see https://hr.msu.edu/benefits/index.html.
MSU is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. The PI is committed to working to build and support an inclusive environment for diverse scholars.
If you are interested in this position, please apply at careers.msu.edu (Job no: 820561). The application requires a CV and a letter of interest (up to two pages, please).
https://careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/512608/research-associatefixed-term
If you have questions about the position, please email Susannah Dorfman at dorfman3@msu.edu.
Super proud of Dr. Mingda Lv, who returned to visit us at MSU this week! He was our alumnus colloquium speaker as part of festivities for MSU Homecoming week. He gave a great talk on his path “Bridging academia to industry,” from what he learned as a student (~1/3 of that time during the pandemic) through Zoom defense and graduation in spring 2021, to postdoc at Argonne National Lab, recently to his new job in X-ray instrumentation at Rigaku back in Michigan. His concluding remarks citing Wapman et al. 2022, Chen et al.’s preprint, educating the department about visas for international students, and recommending steps to support students were important and impactful.
On September 19th, Suki gave an online talk at the monthly APS High Pressure Interest Group meeting on “The deep Earth redox engine.” Here’s the recording!
Other past talks can be found here: https://hpcat.aps.anl.gov/meetings/high-pressure-meeting
Luisa Fernanda Chavarría Chavarría has joined our lab as a new Ph.D. student! Luisa earned her B.S. and M.S. from EAFIT University in Colombia and has recently been working for the Colombian Geological Survey. Welcome!
Next week is the online Annual Meeting of the Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences. Suki will present “Pressure enhances sodium solubility in magnesiowüstite.” BK will be speaking about “Effects of redox conditions on the stability of carbonate in Earth’s lower mantle.” Allison‘s talk will be “Broadening of Fe-Nitride Spin Transitions Under Nonhydrostatic Compression and Impacts on the Strength of Fe-Nitrides”. Here’s the program: https://compres.unm.edu/sites/default/files/meetings/documents/DetailedProgram2022.pdf
Naomi Singleton is working with us this summer as part of the GeoCaFES program. She is a third year undergraduate student at Northeastern Illinois University. Welcome Naomi!
Thanks again to Grace Brekke for her work over the past year and congratulations on graduating! Grace will be starting student teaching in the fall and is interested in Education Technology.
Congratulations to Allison Pease, the 2022 recipient of the MSA Kraus Research Grant in Crystallography for her project “Structural Variation in Silicate Perovskites”! This award is given to one early-career researcher per year to support costs of research in mineralogical crystallography.
http://www.minsocam.org/msa/awards/crystallography_award.html
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