Sébastien MERKEL
Professor at Université de Lille
Bâtiment C6 - 116
Unité Matériaux et Transformations
Cité scientifique, Bât. C6
Université de Lille
59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq
France
Tel: +33 (0) 320 43 65 16
Fax: +33 (0) 320 43 65 91
Email
: Send an email to Sébastien MERKEL
Homepage: http://merkel.texture.rocks
ORCID Identifier
: 0000-0003-2767-581X
Unité Matériaux et Transformations
Cité scientifique, Bât. C6
Université de Lille
59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq
France
Tel: +33 (0) 320 43 65 16
Fax: +33 (0) 320 43 65 91
: Send an email to Sébastien MERKELHomepage: http://merkel.texture.rocks
ORCID Identifier
: 0000-0003-2767-581XResearch team: Earth and Planetary Materials
Research
Deep Earth geophysics - Plasticity and microstructures under extreme conditions of pressure and temperature - Seismic anisotropyTeaching
Teaching for the college of science and technologies: Physics of the Earth - Introduction to planetology - Plastic deformation and microstructures - Advanced structural characterization of materials - Scientific PublishingOther
PI of the ERC project HotCores « Revealing the unknown planet within the Earth », 2022-2027
Co-PI of the ANR project Min-Dixi « Mineralogical Diversity in Exoplanets Interiors », 2023-2027
PI of the joint ANR-DFG project TIMEleSS « Phase TransformatIons, MicrostructurEs, and their Seismic Signals from the Earth's mantle »
Honorary junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2014-2019)
Current PhD thesis
- Léo CARIN, Deformation of metallic alloys in the Earth's inner core. Thesis started in 2024. Other co-advisor: Nadège HILAIRET.
- Hélène GINESTET, Earth's core in the lab. Thesis started in 2023.
Defended PhD thesis
- Chloé MOLINES, Contraintes et mécanismes de déformation dans les éclogites : approche expérimentale in situ grâce au rayonnement X synchrotron et ex situ par microscopie électronique . Thesis defended in 2025. Other co-advisor: Nadège HILAIRET.
- Jeffrey GAY, Microstructures and anisotropy of pyrolite in the Earth’s lower mantle: insights from high pressure/temperature deformation and phase transformation experiments. Thesis defended in 2022. Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University.
- Tommaso MANDOLINI, Microstructural evolution of polymineralic aggregates deformed under high pressure and temperature: an in- situ and post-mortem study on olivine+serpentine. Thesis defended in 2022. Other co-advisor: Nadège HILAIRET. Position: Post-doctorant à l'Université du Maryland, Etats-Unis.
- Estelle LEDOUX, Transformation and deformation microstructures in the Earth mantle: application to periclase and wadsleyite. Thesis defended in 2021. Other co-advisor: Damien JACOB. Position: En post-doctorat, Department of Geology & Geophysics - The University of Utah, Etats-Unis.
- Christopher Langrand, Experimental Study of Perovskite / Post-Perovskite Phase Transformation Mechanism and its Kinetics in the Earth Mantle . Thesis defended in 2017. Other co-advisor: Nadège HILAIRET. Position: Resp. R & D, Tacquet Industries, Carvin, France.
- Ainhoa Lincot, Direct models of seismic anisotropie in the Earth inner core and study of textures induced by the α-ε transition in iron. Thesis defended in 2013. Other co-advisor: Philippe Cardin. Position: Ingénieur Génie Logiciel chez IFP Energies nouvelles.
- Caroline Bollinger, Rheology of polycrystalline olivine under upper mantle conditions: an in-situ study in the D-DIA. Thesis defended in 2013. Position: Research Scientist au Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St Louis, USA.
- Carole Nisr, In-situ characterization of dislocations in minerals under high pressure. Thesis defended in 2011. Other co-advisor: Patrick CORDIER. Position: Astistant Research Scientist dans la School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Etats-Unis.
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