Member Since 2021
Kyla de Villa
Graduate Student, University of California Berkeley
Professional Experience
University of California Berkeley
Graduate Student
2021 - Present
Education
University of California Berkeley
Bachelors
2021
University of California Berkeley
Bachelors
2021
Honors & Awards
John C. Jamieson Student Paper Award
Received December 2024
Outstanding Student Presentation Award
Received December 2023
Presentation Title: Superionic Properties of Planetary Ices
Event: 2023 AGU Annual Meeting
Awarding Section: Mineral and Rock Physics
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Superionic Properties of Planetary Ices
EXPLORING PLANETARY MATERIALS THROUGH COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS AND DATA ANALYTICS I ORAL
mineral and rock physics | 11 december 2023
Kyla de Villa, Felipe Gonzalez Cataldo, Burkhard M...
In the coming decades, the NASA Flagship Mission to Uranus will revolutionize our understanding of the interior dynamics of ice giant planets Uranus a...
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Comparing Free Energy Calculations and Direct Dynamical Simulations of Melting, Superionicity, Mixing and Partitioning in Planetary Interiors
EXPLORING PLANETARY MATERIALS THROUGH COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATIONS AND DATA ANALYTICS I ORAL
mineral and rock physics | 11 december 2023
Burkhard Militzer, Kyla de Villa, Tanja Kovacevic,...
In planetary interiors, materials are exposed to extreme conditions of megabar pressures and thousands of Kelvin. In terrestrial planets, materials ca...
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Superionic Phases of H-C-N-O Compounds at Ice Giant Interior Conditions
A JOURNEY INTO PLANETARY INTERIORS: MEASUREMENTS, THEORY, AND IMPLICATIONS OF PHASE TRANSITIONS AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF PLANET-FORMING MATERIALS AT EXTREME CONDITIONS II POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 13 december 2021
Kyla de Villa, Rustin Domingos, Burkhard Militzer
The magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune are thought to arise from charge transport within their H, C, N, and O rich interiors. However, the stoichio...
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