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Geoff Bromiley

Geoff Bromiley

Extreme conditions: making planets in the lab

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Lee Saper. Leverhulme Trust funded Postdoctoral Researcher, exploring lunar magmatic degassing processes.

Ri Cao. PhD student: Massive volcanic domes on Venus and the mobilisation of crystal much: insights from the Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus. 2020-

Siobhan Kingham. PhD student, funded by the Carnegie Trust: The role of water in the Moon’s unique chlorine isotopic signature. 2020-

Annemiek C. Waajen. PhD student (Primary Supervisor Charles Cockell): The potential of recalcitrant organics as a microbial energy and carbon source. 2018-

 

 

Completed

2007-2011 Shigeto Hirai PhD thesis: Investigation of CaIr1-xPtxO3 and CaIr0.5Rh0.5O3: Structural properties, physical properties and stabilising conditions for post-perovskite oxides. click here for thesis

2009-2013 Matthew J. Hiscock PhD thesis: Importance of grain boundary diffusion: an experimental study. click here for thesis

2012-2016 Mark Thacker  PhD thesis (School of History, Classics and Archaeology): Constructing lordship in North Atlantic Europe: the archaeology of masonry mortars in the medieval and later buildings of the Scottish North Atlantic. click here for thesis. Mark used high temperature equipment within the lab to replicate manufacturing processes in medieval buildings in Scotland.

2011-2015 Madeleine T.L. Berg PhD thesis: 3D visualisation of melts at the conditions of Earth’s deep interior. click here for thesis

2012-2016 Jennifer C. Brooke PhD thesis: Probing the water content of the Earth’s mantle: an experimental study of hydrogen mobility under extreme conditions. click here for thesis

2014-2018: Thomas N. Stokes  PhD Thesis: Crystal chemistry of accessory minerals as a probe of magmatic oxygen fugacity: an experimental study. click here for thesis

2016-2020: Juergen Schleppi PhD in Space Resources, Sustainability and Renewable Energy at Heriot-Watt University. Juergen used high temperature furnaces within the lab to synthesis high-quality glasses, as engineering materials, from lunar simulants.

2016-2020: Sally Law PhD thesis: Mafic rock perspective on the magmatic maturation of a large scale silicic system: a multidisciplinary study of basalt in the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand.  click here for thesis

2016-2021: Ardith Bravenec PhD thesis: Water and Carbon in the Early Solar System.  click here for thesis

 

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