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Dr. Adrien Saurety

Postdoctoral Scholar
Geology and Planetary Sciences Division
California Institute of Technology
1200 East California Boulevard
Pasadena
California, USA

Welcome on my personal website !

I am a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Caltech. I study the interaction of two mineral surface using theoretical chemistry to better understand the deformation of polycristaline material due to grain boundary sliding.

I did my PhD at IPGP in Paris under the supervision of Razvan Caracas on the behavior of rocky materials during large and giant impacts.

I am graduated of the bachelor of Earth sciences and the master of physic and theoretical chemistry from the ENS de Lyon.

Research interest

I use ab initio molecular dynamics, density functional theory, and classical molecular dynamics to study various chemical and physical properties of Earth building blocks. I am interested in cosmochemistry, theoretical chemistry, planetary sciences and material sciences.