Extreme Physics and Chemistry

Scientific Steering Committee

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  James Badro Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France
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  James Badro

  Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France

  Dr. James Badro, research director at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris and scientific collaborator at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, is expanding what is known about Deep Earth geophysics and geochemistry through high pressure experiments and first principles calculations. His research interests combine experimental petrology, geochemistry, and experimental and computational mineral physics to understand mantle and core composition, structure and dynamics, and Earth’s formation and evolution. Professor Badro is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a life fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America.

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  Roberto Bini Universita di Firenze, Italy
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  Roberto Bini

  Universita di Firenze, Italy

  Dr. Roberto Bini’s research activities are primarily experimental in nature, where he uses linear and non-linear optical techniques to better understand the structural and dynamic properties of molecular systems in condensed phases. An Associate Professor of Chemistry at the Universita di Firenze, he has more than 100 articles addressing chemical-physics and condensed matter physics arguments.  His work has been recognized with the following awards: the San Valentino d’Oro XXXI for the scientific Research, “Le Scienze” magazine prize for Chemistry, and Medaglia del Presidente della Repubblica.

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  Leonid Dubrovinsky Bayreuth University, Germany
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  Leonid Dubrovinsky

  Bayreuth University, Germany

  Dr. Leonid Dubrovinsky is a professor at Bayreuth University, where his research focuses on phase transformations and chemical reactions at ultra-high pressures and ultra-high pressure and temperature crystallography. Dubrovinsky has served on the editorial board of High Pressure Research since 2006.  He is a recipient of the European Mineralogical Union Medal, the Bergstedt prize (Sweden) by the Royal Society of Sciences, and most recently, the 2017 Gregori Amonoff Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2017 for his contributions in the field of crystallography.

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  Giulia Galli University of Chicago, USA
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  Giulia Galli

  University of Chicago, USA

  Dr. Giulia Galli is the Liew Family professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations in the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. She also holds a senior scientist position at the Argonne National Laboratory and is a senior fellow of the University of Chicago’s ANL Computational Institute. Galli is also a fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is the recipient of an award of excellence from the Department of Energy and of the Science and Technology Award from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her research is focused on the development and use of theoretical and computational tools to understand and predict the properties and behavior of materials (solids, liquids and nanostructures) from first principles.

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  Mark S. Ghiorso OFM Research Inc., USA
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  Mark S. Ghiorso

  OFM Research Inc., USA

  Dr. Mark Ghiorso is the vice president and senior research associate at OFM Research Inc. Ghiorso also serves as an affiliate professor at the University of Washington and adjoint professor at Vanderbilt University. He also serves as an associate editor for the American Journal of Science and Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. Ghiorso is a fellow, councilor, and distinguished lecturer of the Mineralogical Society of America, a fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union. His work has been recognized with honors from the Mineralogical Society of America, European Geosciences Union, and the American Geophysical Union.

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  Dennis Klug National Research Council of Canada, Canada
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  Dennis Klug

  National Research Council of Canada, Canada

  Dr. Dennis Klug is a principal research scientist at the National Research Council of Canada. He maintains a mixture of theory and experiment in his research and his main current interests are in the areas of predictions and characterization of structures and properties of materials using tools varying from first-principles quantum methods to synchrotron radiation and neutron scattering techniques. He has authored approximately 250 publications including in Physical Review Letters, Nature, Science, and Nature Materials, with the majority of publications on matter under extreme conditions. He has been recognized as an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society and is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Physical Review Applied.

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  Konstantin Litasov Novosibirsk State University, Russia
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  Konstantin Litasov

  Novosibirsk State University, Russia

  Dr. Konstantin Litasov is the head of the Laboratory of Experimental Geochemistry and Petrology of Earth’s Mantle in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Novosibirsk State University. His research interests are many, ranging from abiogenic carbon to carbon and carbonates at high pressure to thermodynamics and mineral physics. He also is a senior staff scientist at the Laboratory of Ultra High-pressure Research and Laboratory of High Pressure Minerals and Diamond Deposits at V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy.  Litasov serves as a member of the Reservoirs and Flux Community, as well.

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  Craig E. Manning University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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  Craig E. Manning

  University of California, Los Angeles, USA

  Dr. Craig Manning is a professor of Geology and Geochemistry in Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, and serves as department vice-chair at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include water chemistry, thermodynamics, gas chemistry, geochemistry, igneous petrology, and metamorphic petrology. Manning is a fellow and past counselor of the Mineralogical Society of America. He serves on the advisory board ofGeochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems, and is associate editor of theAmerican Journal of Science. Manning chairs DCO’s Executive Committee and the Extreme Physics and Chemistry community. He also is a member of the Reservoirs and Fluxes community, as well as Synthesis Group 2019.

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  Wendy Mao Stanford University, USA
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  Wendy Mao

  Stanford University, USA

  Dr. Wendy Mao is an associate professor of geological sciences and, by courtesy, of geophysics at Stanford University. Mao studies the behavior of materials under compression, which often leads to the discovery of novel phases and new phenomena. Mao was a COMPRES distinguished lecturer, the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award, the Mineralogical Society of America Award, and the Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award from the Advanced Photon Source. Mao serves as co-Chair of the Extreme Physics and Chemistry Community. 

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  Carmen Sanchez-Valle University of Munster, Germany
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  Carmen Sanchez-Valle

  University of Munster, Germany

  Dr. Carmen Sanchez-Valle is a professor of mineralogy at the University of Munster. Her research ranges from fluid-rock interactions and mass transfer in subduction zones, to the physics of melts and magmatic processes, to water in the Earth’s interior and the fate of subducted slabs. She serves as specialty chief editor for Frontiers in Earth Science and Earth and Planetary Materials, and has served as a guest editor forChemical Geology. Sanchez-Valle was a participant on the review panel for PRC3 (Matter and material properties) at Synchrotron Soleil, France, and the XAS review panel at Synchrotron Swiss Light Source, Switzerland.

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  Dimitri Sverjensky Johns Hopkins University, USA
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  Dimitri Sverjensky

  Johns Hopkins University, USA

  Dr. Dimitri Sverjensky is a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, where he has taught since 1984.  A geochemist, his research interests are diverse and include: deep Earth carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and water cycles, astrobiology, high temperature/pressure aqueous solution chemistry, and chemical equilibria and mass transfer.  He is a fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry, and a recipient of the Lindgren Award from the Society of Economic Geologists.  Sverjensky is co-PI of the synthesis project MELTS and DEW.