Postdoctoral Fellows

Jaehan Bae
Sagan Postdoctoral Fellow
Protoplanetary disks; planet-disk interactions; planet formation; hydrodynamic/magnetohydrodynamic instabilities; accretion disks; FU Orionis objects; exoplanets
- 202-478-8863
- jbae at carnegiescience.edu
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Jens Barosch
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cosmochemistry and Geochemistry
- (202) 478 8900
- jbarosch@carnegiescience.edu
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Asmaa Boujibar
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow
Accretion and differentiation of Earth and terrestrial planets; planetary interiors; comparative planetology; exoplanets; meteorites.
- (202) 478-8817
- aboujibar@carnegiescience.edu
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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
- (202) 478-8981
- kbrugman@carnegiescience.edu
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Elena Bykova
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow
Geochemistry; high pressure; materials; mineralogy; planetary science
- (202) 478-8868
- ebykova@carnegiescience.edu
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Matthew S. Clement
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow
Terrestrial planet formation; origin of the Earth and inner solar system; planet embryo formation; GPU computing; collisional evolution of the asteroid belt
- (202) 478-8861
- mclement@carnegiescience.edu
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Samuel G. Dunning
Postdoctoral Fellow
High Pressure Materials Science; New Materials Synthesis; Materials Characterization
- 202-478-8940
- sdunning@carnegiescience.edu
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Rajkrishna Dutta
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow
High pressure and temperature conditions; analogs of silicates and oxides; density functional theory; dynamic compression experiments
- (202) 478-8934
- rdutta@carnegiescience.edu
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Yusuke Fujimoto
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow
Galaxy simulations; galactic-scale star formation; short-lived radioisotopes; giant molecular clouds; cloud-scale gas distributions
- (202) 478-8826
- yfujimoto@carnegiescience.edu
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Olivier Gagné
Postdoctoral Fellow
Mineralogy
- (202) 478-8958
- ogagne@carnegiescience.edu
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Nico Kueter
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow
Experimental (isotope) geochemistry with focus on light stable isotopes; Petrology, Mineralogy, Geology
- (202) 478-8972
- nkueter@carnegiescience.edu
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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
- (202) 478-9999
- lxie@carnegiescience.edu
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Francesca Miozzi
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow
Exoplanets; extreme conditions experiments; mineral physics; petrology
- 202-478-8938
- fmiozzi@carnegiescience.edu
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Peng Ni
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow
Geochemistry; planetary science
- (202) 478-8927
- pni@carnegiescience.edu
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Nicole Xike Nie
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow
Geochemistry; planetary science; Moon formation; volatile element depletion in planetary bodies; Earth and planetary surface weathering.
- (202) 478-8976
- nnie@carnegiescience.edu
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Daniel E. Portner
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow
Subduction zones, slab behavior, seismic imaging, magmatic systems, mantle dynamics, plate tectonics, and material recycling
- (202) 478-8856
- dportner@carnegiescience.edu
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Kelsey Prissel
Postdoctoral Fellow
High-temperature geochemistry; experimental petrology; planetary differentiation; planetary materials; volcanology; non-traditional stable isotopes; diffusion chronometry
- 202-478-8988
- kprissel@carnegiescience.edu
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Aldo S.M. Raeliarijaona
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ferroelectrics, Materials Science
- (202) 478-8952
- araeliarijaona@carnegiescience.edu
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Margo Regier
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow
Geochemistry, diamond formation, deep carbon cycle
- (202) 478-8464
- mregier@carnegiescience.edu
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Thomas Shiell
Postdoctoral Fellow
High pressure materials science; new materials synthesis; materials characterization
- (202) 478-4897
- tshiell@carnegiescience.edu
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Kei Shimizu
Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA
Mantle and crustal geochemistry; cosmochemistry; planetary science, meteorites; mineral-melt trace element partitioning; geochemical modeling; development of REE geothermobarometer
- (202)478-8464
- kshimizu at carnegiescience.edu
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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
- (202) 478-9999
- tshreve at carnegiescience.edu
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Nathan Sime
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow
Mathematical modelling, numerical methods, uncertainty quantification, large scale computing.
- 202-478-8867
- nsime@carnegiescience.edu
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Zachary A. Torrano
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow
Cosmochemistry; Geochemistry; Meteorites; Planetary Science, Isotopes
- 202-478-8862
- ztorrano@carnegiescience.edu
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Wenzhong Wang
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow
First-principles calculations, Mineral physics, Heterogeneities within Earth's interior and Beyond, Isotope geochemistry, Planetary differentiation
- (202) 478-9999
- wwang10@carnegiescience.edu
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Da Wang
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow
Continental crust; isotope geochemistry; mantle-crust evolution; geochronology; mass spectrometry
- (202) 478-8469
- dwang@carnegiescience.edu
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Yan Zhan
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow
Geodynamics; Volcanology; Crustal Deformation; Numerical Modeling; Data Assimilation
- 202-478-8900
- yzhan@carnegiescience.edu
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Li Zhu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Materials informatics; computational materials design; matter at extreme states
- (202) 478-8963
- lzhu@carnegiescience.edu
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