Project 0

Coordination of the Research Unit and central facility for diamond shaping and sample preparation

Project speaker: Prof. Dr. Björn Winkler


Project 1

Phase stabilities of carbonates at high pressures and temperatures studied in the LH-DAC by CARS and TRLFS

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 electronic structure calculations

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


Project 4

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

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


Project 5

Carbonates under shock compression: stability, phase transitions, and chemical reactions with silicates

Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Edwin Kroke and Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heide


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, Prof. Dr. Natalia Dubrovinskaia and Dr. Sergio Speziale