Staff Scientists
Technical & Admin
Visiting Investigators
Merle A. Tuve Fellows

Postdoctoral Fellows

Munazza Alam

Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow

Exoplanet atmospheres; host star elemental abundances; planet formation and evolution

Jens Barosch

Jens Barosch

Postdoctoral Fellow

Cosmochemistry and Geochemistry

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Tiange Bi

Postdoctoral Fellow

Computational chemistry; high pressure; crystal structure prediction of novel materials with advanced properties

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Kara Brugman

Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow

Experimental petrology; magma genesis on exoplanets, Earth, and solar system bodies; diffusion chronometry; geothermometry; volcano science and hazards; high-silica magmatic systems; volatile solubility and cycling

James W. Dottin, III

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow

Geology

Samuel G. Dunning

Postdoctoral Fellow

High Pressure Materials Science; New Materials Synthesis; Materials Characterization

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Eric Edmund

Postdoctoral Fellow

Thermal conductivity of Bridgmanite at lower mantle conditions. Melting and transport properties of iron alloys at high pressures and temperatures.

Innocent Chinwe Ezenwa

Innocent Chinwe Ezenwa

Postdoctoral Fellow

Geophysics; geochemistry; planetary interior dynamics; element partitioning

Ming Hao

Ming Hao

Postdoctoral Fellow

High pressure; Geophysics; mineralogy; planetary science

Shubham Kanodia

Shubham Kanodia

Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow

M dwarfs, Exoplanets, Astrostatistics, Instrumentation

Donghoon Kim

Donghoon Kim

Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow

Mineral Physics, Exoplanets, Dynamic Compression, High Pressure, Experimental Condensed Matter, High Energy Density

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Francesca Miozzi

Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow

Exoplanets; extreme conditions experiments; mineral physics; petrology

Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow Peng Ni

Peng Ni

Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow

Geochemistry; planetary science

Anjali Piette

Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow

Exoplanet atmospheres; Atmospheric characterization & modeling; Atmosphere-interior interactions

Aldo S.M. Raeliarijaona

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ferroelectrics, Materials Science

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Tara Shreve

Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow

Volcanology; InSAR; Crustal deformation; Analytical and numerical modelling; Remote sensing of volcanic degassing; Caldera-rift systems

Nathan (Nate) Sime

Nathan Sime

Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow

Mathematical modelling, numerical methods, uncertainty quantification, large scale computing.

Zachary A. Torrano

Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow

Cosmochemistry; Geochemistry; Meteorites; Planetary Science, Isotopes

Wenzhong Wang

Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow

First-principles calculations, Mineral physics, Heterogeneities within Earth's interior and Beyond, Isotope geochemistry, Planetary differentiation

Jason Williams

Postdoctoral Fellow

Geochemistry, data science, machine learning, numerical modeling, high-performance computing, and geospatial analysis

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Michael L. Wong

NHFP Sagan Fellow

Planetary atmospheres; habitability; biosignatures; emergence of life

Longjian Xie

Longjian Xie

Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow

Chemical and thermal evolution of Earth’s interior, Melt properties under high pressure, Ultra-high temperature (>3000 ºC) and high pressure (>40 GPa) generation and measurement in the multi-anvil press

Yan Zhan

Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow

Geodynamics; Volcanology; Crustal Deformation; Numerical Modeling; Data Assimilation

Mingming Zhang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Planet Formation and Evolution; Geodynamic Modeling; Transport Properties of Silicates

Ningli

Ningli Zhao

Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow

Rock Physics, Geodynamics, Geochemistry.