Peng Ni
Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests
Geochemistry; planetary science
Academics
B.S., Geoscience, Peking University, 2011; Ph.D., Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2017.
Contact & Links
- (202) 478-8927
- pni@carnegiescience.edu
- Earth and Planets Laboratory
Carnegie Institution for Science
5241 Broad Branch Road, NW
Washington, DC 20015-1305 - Curriculum Vitae
- Publications
- Personal Website
Overview
Peng Ni is working with Anat Shahar on kinetic copper isotope fractionation during diffusion processes. In terrestrial processes such as tektite formation and planetary processes such as volcanic eruption on lunar surface, copper behaves as a moderately volatile element and can be lost into the vapor phase during evaporation. Its isotopes are fractionated in this process and part of the fractionation could be due to copper diffusion. His primary goal is to experimentally investigate this process.