Project 0

Coordination of the Research Unit

Project speaker: Prof. Dr. Björn Winkler


Project 1

Phase stabilities of carbonates and reaction between carbonates and mantle minerals at high pressures and temperatures studied in the LH-DAC by Raman and time-resolved laser fluorescence spectroscopy

Principal investigators: Dr. Lkhamsuren Bayarjargal and Prof. Dr. Björn Winkler


Project 2

Structural, electronic and thermodynamic properties of carbonates at high pressures and temperatures by in situ spectroscopy and atomic-scale simulations

Principal investigators: Dr. Ilias Efthimiopoulos, Prof. Dr. Sandro Jahn and Prof. Dr. Monika Koch-Müller


Project 3

Electronic structure of Fe/Mg carbonates at conditions of the Earth's lower mantle: Implications for the formation of tetrahedrally coordinated carbon

Principal investigators: Dr. Christian Sternemann and Prof. Dr. Max Wilke


Project 4

X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction studies of element redistribution processes between carbonates and mantle phases at mantle conditions

Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Max Wilke and Dr. Karen Appel


Project 6

Elastic properties of carbonates at high pressures and temperatures

Principal investigator: Dr. Catherine McCammon


Project 7

Chemical reactions between carbonates and pyrolite mantle and the origin of ultradeep diamonds

Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Leonid Dubrovinsky and Prof. Dr. Natalia Dubrovinskaia


Project 8

Phase relations and melting in the system CaCO3–MgCO3 at high pressures and temperatures

Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Monika Koch-Müller and Dr. Hans Josef Reichmann


Project 9

Elasticity and structure evolution of carbonates at upper mantle conditions

Principal investigators: Dr. Sergio Speziale and Prof. Dr. Björn Winkler