C. Sanchez, C. Thomas, and S. Merkel are in Münster for discussing the outline of the project, laying out the time tables and discuss about hiring of students. More to come soon!
Category: TIMEleSS news
TIMEleSS PI’s will be at EGU 2018!
TIMEleSS PI’s are calling for abstractsat EGU 2018! Look for session sessions
- GD3.1: Dynamics, structure and evolution of the mantle in the Earth and planetary bodies
- GMPV1.8: Applications and perspectives for Earth Sciences research using synchrotron and free-electron-laser radiations
Deadline for abstracts submission is tomorrow, Wednesday 10 January 2018, 13:00 CET. Hope to see you in Vienna !
Opening for two PhD positions!
The TIMEleSS project is looking for 2 PhD student. Both students will investigate the link between microstructures, phase transitions and seismic structures in the Earth’s deep mantle using a combination of advanced diffraction methods at synchrotron sources and in-house experimental facilities. Both positions should start on March 1st, 2018, or whenever the position are filled.
The first position will be based at the Institute for Mineralogy of the University of Münster (Germany) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Carmen Sanchez-Valle and will focus on materials relevant for deep subducted slabs. The second position will be based at the Unité Matériaux et Transformations of the University of Lille (France) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sébastien Merkel and will focus on materials for an average mantle composition.
Candidates should contact Carmen Sanchez-Valle and Sébastien Merkel, following the procedures in the attached PDF files. The review process will start on January 15th, 2018, with all applications submitted until January 14th, 2018.
Details and application procedures:
The TIMEleSS project was selected!
Good news during the gray fall months of 2017: the TIMEleSS project has been selected!
The TIMEleSS acronym stands for “Phase TransformatIons, MicrostructurEs, and their Seismic Signals from the Earth’s mantle”. We will receive a bilateral grant, from the ANR in France and the DFG in Germany, for a total sum of approximately 700 k€. The project includes salaries for 3 PhD students, 1 post-doc, undergraduate works, travel, consumables, and some equipment for our experiments.
The project is led by Sébastien Merkel and Nadège Hilairet at the Université de Lille, Christine Thomas and Carmen Sanchez-Valle from the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, and Sergio Speziale from the Deutsche GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam.
With the project, we aim at studying deep mantle discontinuities through a combined mineral physics — seismology approach. The combination of both mineral physics and seismology input be used to model deep mantle processes.
The scientific project is planned to start in the spring of 2018 and will run for 3 years. Stay tuned!