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James Badro
Cosmochemistry, Astrophysics and Experimental Geophysics
01 83 95 77 99
badro@ipgp.fr
IPGP - Bureau 262 - 1, rue Jussieu - 75238 Paris cedex 05
Education
1994 – 1997 École normale supérieure de Lyon, PhD
1993 – 1994 École normale supérieure de Lyon, MS
1991 – 1993 École normale supérieure de Lyon, BS
Fellowships
Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
Grand Prix "Louis Gentil - Emile Bourcart", French Academy of Sciences, 2009
Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union, 2008
MSA Award, Mineralogical Society of America, 2008
Bronze Medal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 2007
Houtermans Medal, European Association for Geochemistry, 2006
Hauy-Lacroix Prize, Societe Francaise de Mineralogie et Cristallographie, 1998
Previous en Present Lives
2012 - present Scientific Collaborator, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2008 - present CNRS Research Director, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
2014 Blaustein Visitng professor, Stanford University
2013 - 2014 Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley
2011 Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley
2004 - 2011 Faculty Scholar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1999 - 2008 CNRS Researcher, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
2002 - 2003 Visiting Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1997 - 1999 Post-doctoral fellow, Carnegie Institution for Science
Research Interests and Themes
Experimental Petrology
Experimental Geochemistry
Mineral Physics
Mantle and Core Composition
Mantle and Core Structure and Interaction
Earth Formation, Core Formation, Magma Ocean Evolution
Primordial Differentiation
Planetary Accretion
Mes publications :
Redox state during core formation on asteroid 4-Vesta
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, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Jul 1, Volume 373, p.75-82, (2013)
DOI:
10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.012
Terrestrial Accretion Under Oxidizing Conditions
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, Science, Mar 8, Volume 339, Issue 6124, p.1194-1197, (2013)
DOI:
10.1126/science.1227923
Metal-silicate partitioning of Ni and Co in a deep magma ocean
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, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Mar 1, Volume 321, p.189-197, (2012)
DOI:
10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.013
Spin Crossover in Ferropericlase at High Pressure: A Seismologically Transparent Transition?
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, Science, Jan, Volume 331, Issue 6013, (2011)
DOI:
10.1126/science.1198429
Oxygen and silicon contents of Earth's core from high pressure metal-silicate partitioning experiments
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, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Oct 15, Volume 310, Issue 3-4, (2011)
DOI:
10.1016/j.epsl.2011.08.004
Effect of composition, structure, and spin state on the thermal conductivity of the Earth's lower mantle
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, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Jun, Volume 180, Issue 3-4, p.148-153, (2010)
DOI:
10.1016/j.pepi.2010.02.002
Composition of the Earth's inner core from high-pressure sound velocity measurements in Fe-Ni-Si alloys
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, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Jun, Volume 295, Issue 1-2, p.292-296, (2010)
DOI:
10.1016/j.epsl.2010.04.018
Sound velocity in iron carbide (Fe3C) at high pressure: Implications for the carbon content of the Earth's inner core
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, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 172, Issue 1-2, p.125-129, (2009)
DOI:
10.1016/j.pepi.2008.05.016
Acceptance of the Mineralogical Society of America Award for 2008 JAMES BADRO
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, American Mineralogist, Volume 94, Issue 4, p.643-643, (2009)
DOI:
10.2138/am.2009.537
Oxygen as a light element: A solution to single-stage core formation
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, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Oct, Volume 288, Issue 1-2, p.108-114, (2009)
DOI:
10.1016/j.epsl.2009.09.012
The Earth's lower mantle and core
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, Elements, Volume 4, Issue 3, p.177-182, (2008)
DOI:
10.2113/gselements.4.3.177
Element partitioning between magnesium silicate perovskite and ferropericlase: New insights into bulk lower-mantle geochemistry
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, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 269, Issue 1-2, p.164-174, (2008)
Anomalous pressure evolution of the axial ratio c/a in hcp cobalt: Interplay between structure, magnetism, and lattice dynamics
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, Applied Physics Letters, Volume 92, Issue 11, (2008)
DOI:
10.1063/1.2897038
Chemical imaging with NanoSIMS: A window into deep-Earth geochemistry
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, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 262, p.543-551, (2007)
DOI:
10.1016/j.epsl.2007.08.007
Acceptance of the 2006 Houtermans award
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, Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 71, p.S28-S29, (2007)
DOI:
10.1016/j.gca.2006.10.014
Iron partitioning and the selfoxidation of the lower mantle
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, Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, Aug, Volume 71, Issue 15, p.A45-A45, (2007)
Effect of light elements on the sound velocities in solid iron: Implications for the composition of Earth's core
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, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Feb, Volume 254, Issue 1-2, p.233-238, (2007)
Metal-ligand interplay in strongly correlated oxides: A parametrized phase diagram for pressure-induced spin transitions
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, Physical Review Letters, May, Volume 98, Issue 19, p.4, (2007)
DOI:
196404 Artn 196404
Thermochemical state of the lower mantle: New insights from mineral physics
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, Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, Aug-Sep, Volume 70, Issue 18, p.A28-A28, (2006)
Effect of light elements on the sound velocities in solid iron: Implications for the composition of earth's core
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, Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, Aug-Sep, Volume 70, Issue 18, p.A28-A28, (2006)
Element partitioning at ultra-high pressure: New insights on bulk lower-mantle geochemistry
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, Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, Aug-Sep, Volume 70, Issue 18, p.A25-A25, (2006)
Strength, anisotropy, and preferred orientation of solid argon at high pressures
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, Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, Jun, Volume 18, Issue 25, p.S963-S968, (2006)
Lattice dynamics of molybdenum at high pressure - art. no. 115502
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, Physical Review Letters, Mar, Volume 96, Issue 11, p.5502, (2006)
DOI:
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.115502
Thermochemical State of the Lower Mantle : New Insights From Mineral Physics
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, Geophysical monograph series, Volume 160, p.241-260, (2005)
Aggregate and single-crystalline elasticity of hcp cobalt at high pressure
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, Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics, Volume 72, p.134303, (2005)
Electronic properties of transition metal oxides at high pressure revealed by X-ray emission spectroscopy
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, Journal of physics. Condensed matter, Volume 17, p.S717-726, (2005)
Experimental Evidence for a High-Pressure Isostructural Phase Transition in Osmium
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, Phys. rev. lett, Volume 93, p.095502, (2004)
High-pressure formation of a binary noble metal nitride
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, Nature Materials, Volume 3, p.294-297, (2004)
Application of inelastic X-ray scattering to the measurements of acoustic wave velocities in geophysical materials at very high pressure
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, Phys. earth. planet. inter., Volume 5, p.143-144, (2004)
Electronic Transitions in Perovskite: Possible Nonconvecting Layers in the Lower Mantle
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, Science (Wash. D.C.), Volume 305, p.383, (2004)
Elastic anisotropy in textured hcp-iron to 112 GPa from sound wave propagation measurements
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, Earth planet. sci. lett., Volume 225, p.243, (2004)
Elasticity of Cobalt at High Pressure Studied by Inelastic X-Ray Scattering
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, Phys. rev. lett, Volume 93, p.215505, (2004)
Charge transfer at very high pressure in NiO
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, Phys. rev., B Solid state, Volume 67, p.081101(R), (2003)
Deformation of (Mg0.9,Fe0.1)SiO3 Perovskite aggregates up to 32 GPa
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, Earth planet. sci. lett., Volume 209, p.351, (2003)
Iron partitioning in earth's mantle: Toward a Deep Lower-Mantle Discontinuity
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, Science (Wash. D.C.), Volume 300, p.789-791, (2003)
Determination of phonon dispersion curves at gigapascal pressures by inelastic x-ray scattering
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, High press. res., Volume 22, p.73-77, (2002)
Nature of the high-Pressure transition in Fe2O3 hematite
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, Phys. rev. lett, Volume 89, p.205504, (2002)
Sound velocities in iron to 110 gigapascals
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, Science (Wash. D.C.), Volume 291, p.468-471, (2001)
Argon solubility in silicate melts at very high pressures
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, Nature (Lond), Volume 393, p.352-355., (1998)