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High school teachers visit

2023-2024 is the Year of Physics for CNRS. As part of the event, local high school teachers were visiting the lab on 24 January 2024.
Experiments

A new spectrometer

10 January 2024. It has arrived. Our new Teledyne / Princeton Instruments spectrometer and CCD cameras were delivered in January.
Experiments

Ready to heat !

15 December 2023. Christmas gift has arrived: a new machine to study the mechanical properties of metals at high temperature and low oxygen fugacity !
Project

Two post-doctoral fellowships in Mineral Physics / Materials Science from winter 2024

20 November 2023. The ERC HotCores project aims is looking for two post-doctoral fellows, to start work in 2024. Both positions will be first available for 1 year and extendable for a second year, paid according to French standards for post-doctoral fellowships, including all associated social benefits. The first position will involve laboratory-based visco-elasticity measurements on metallic alloys using a new apparatus that was recently delivered to the lab. The second position will be dedicated to visco-elasticity measurements at high pressure and high temperature using a custom-built dynamic diamond anvil cell with heating capabilities. Please click on the image for details and application procedures.
People news

Summer school on matter at extremes

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.
Experiments

EuXFEL experimental campaign for the HotCores project

15 May 2023. HotCores members took part to the first campaign of commissioning experiments for the Dipole laser at the European XFEL.
Project

Project is officially started!

2 December 2022. The HotCore starting date has been reached! The official starting date for HotCores is Dec. 1st 2022.
Project

Facilities for high pressure experiments

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.
Project

The HotCores project was selected for funding!

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.