I work with Prof. Hauke Marquardt to study the Effects of Displacive Phase Transitions on Seismic Wave Propagation in the Earth's Lower Mantle.
Within my DPhil project, I have developed several Python scripts to improve the efficiency of data analysis for dynamic Diamond Anvil Cell (dDAC) experiments (zenodo.org/record/7457445). Using the dynamic DAC (dDAC), I investigated the stishovite to post-stishovite phase transition in the lower mantle. Part of the results led to my recent publication in GRL (doi.org/10.1029/2023GL102740), which explains how stresses affect the post-stishovite phase transition. Additionally, I conducted a series of experiments on MgO to understand the potential and limitations of time-resolved XRD data collected during continuous compression in the dDAC, a manuscript is in preparation. Another ongoing project is to study the tetragonal-to-cubic phase transition in Ca(Six, Ti1-x)O3 perovskite.
I obtained my master’s degree in Experimental Geosciences at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut (BGI), University of Bayreuth, where I had systemic training in high-pressure research. I mainly worked on element diffusivities in bridgmanite using the Large Volume Press (LVP). I also contributed to a project on the crystal chemistry of bridgmanite (doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018447) and work on the δ-AlOOH's hydrogen bond symmetrization (doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.104311).
