I'll be presenting the first set of results of our freshly patented system for in situ mineral incubations. We quantified the weathering rates of silicates, phosphates and carbonates at agricultural and forested sites, with important implications for elemental cycling and carbon capture and storage technologies. Looking forward to seeing you there or remotely in a month from now!
This study of the nanoscale transport of water and ions reveals some important couplings between thermodynamic gradients and matter and energy fluxes controlling mineral reactivity at larger scales. To learn more, you can now find it in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
Three exciting campains ahead in the scope of the ERC MOBIDIC, starting this month with a first screening of microbial communities thriving in Icelandic basaltic aquifers. Another campain with follow in the fall with our collaborators from Bénédicte Menez and Emmanuelle Gerard from IPGP and Andri Stefansson the University of Iceland. Coming up next : sampling microbial communities associated with lava flows on Réunion Island, with the help of Frédéric Feder from CIRAD.
In this study, just accepted in CCR, we investigate the effect of partial replacement of metakaolin by Ca-hydroxide on the micro- and nanostructure of AAMK exposed to high temperatures, with important implications for the sustainable building industry.
I have received an Outstanding Research Presentation Award at the 2021 ACEE Annual Meeting for our recent research (outline here).
We have been invited to the 2021 ACS Spring Meeting to present the result of our Molecular Dynamics simulations on reverse osmosis processes at nanoporous silicate interfaces. This study will also be featured at the 2021 Goldschmidt Conference together with another presentation by Celia Aranda Reina on our field work at the Monte Perdido glacier forefield (Spain). This Fall, I will be presenting our latest results on mineral-microorganisms interactions at the first Franco-German OZCAR-TERENO Meeting.
Our proposal for in situ weathering studies at the The Watershed Institute, co-authored with Ian Bourg has been awarded a SEAS innovation grant.
Three exciting talks ahead - I will give a presentation at the 2020 Goldschmidt Conference next week, and a seminar at the ACEE 2020 Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow Seminar Series in July. Early August, I have been invited to present our research at the Virtual Glass Summit 2020.
I have been nominated by Princeton University to the Blavatnik Regional Award, which acknowledges the excellence of outstanding postdoctoral scientists from all disciplines.
I will present our latest research at the American Chemical Society's Spring 2020 Meeting and at the American Ceramic Society's GOMD 2020.
I have been selected to represent Princeton's postdoctoral research at the annual meeting of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative Meeting
We follow up in situ the formation of amorphous phases at the fluid-mineral interface during Silicate dissolution which has important consequences for the global carbon cycle and a number of low-carbon technologies. Check it out in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
My co-authors and I have received the 2019 OZCAR Prize from the French network of Critical Zone Observatories for our recent study published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. This work was conducted at the OHGE Critical Zone Observatory.
