Presidential Young Investigator Award

这是总统青年调查员(PYI)奖。该研究项目包括对极端压力和温度下地质材料的结构、成键和能量学的综合实验、理论和计算研究。高压高温实验将在激光加热的钻石压腔中进行；材料将在现场和环境条件下通过各种光谱技术(例如拉曼、核磁共振)进行检测。这些实验的结果将塑造和约束材料的从头计算量子力学模型及其物理和化学性质。反过来，这些研究将为地球内部的组成和动态的理论模型提供重要的约束。

This is a Presidential Young Investigator (PYI) award. The research project involves combined experimental, theoretical, and computational studies of the structure, bonding, and energetics of geological materials at extreme pressures and temperatures. High-pressure, high-temperature experiments will be conducted in laser-heated diamond anvil cells; materials will be examined by a variety of spectroscopic techniques (e.g. Raman, NMR) at both in-situ and ambient conditions. The results of these experiments will shape and constrain ab initio quantum mechanical models of the materials and their physical and chemical properties. In turn, these studies will provide important constraints on theoretical models of the composition and dynamic state of the earth's interior.