Presidential Young Investigator Award

总统青年研究员奖（PYI） 的 研究项目包括实验，理论， 和计算研究的结构，键， 地质材料在极端压力下的能量学， 温度。 高压高温实验将 在激光加热的金刚石砧座中进行;材料 将通过各种光谱技术（例如， 拉曼，NMR）。 的 这些实验的结果将塑造和约束从头算 材料的量子力学模型及其物理 和化学性质。 反过来，这些研究将提供 组成的理论模型的重要限制 和地球内部的动态

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.