6 September 2023. Hélène Ginestet, our first PhD student on the HotCores project, is attending the summer school on matter at extremes organized in Banyuls sur Mer, France, 4-8 september 2023.
15 May 2023. HotCores members took part to the first campaign of commissioning experiments for the Dipole laser at the European XFEL.
2 December 2022. The HotCore starting date has been reached! The official starting date for HotCores is Dec. 1st 2022.
23 November 2022. Pressure is a fundamental parameter in order to reproduce the conditions of the Earth's inner core. The project will hence heavily rely on the High Pressure Laboratory of the Institut Chevreul, at the Université de Lille.
25 October 2022. Big news! The HotCores project was selected for funding for the 2021 ERC Advanced Grant call! ERC Advanced Grants are designed to support excellent scientists and scholars in any field at the career stage when they are already established research leaders, with a recognized track record of research achievements. The HotCores project is lead by Sébastien Merkel at the Université de Lille and will aim at revealing the unknown planet within the Earth: the Earth's inner core.
