Member Since 1996
Renata Wentzcovitch
Professor, Columbia University
President, Mineral and Rock Physics Executive Committee; Section President, Council; Editor, JGR Machine Learning and Computation Section
Professional Experience
Columbia University
Professor
2017 - Present
University of Minnesota
Professor of Materials Science
1994 - 2016
University of California Berkeley
PhD
1983 - 1988
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Professor
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Education
University of California Berkeley
Doctorate
1988
University of Sao Paulo
Masters
1982
University of Sao Paulo
Bachelors
1980
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Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received January 2008
Publications
Fe2+ Partitioning in Al‐Free Pyrolite: Consequences for Seismic Velocities and Heterogeneities
Iron partitioning among the main lower mantle phases, bridgmanite (Bm) and ferropericlase (Fp), has non‐monotonic behavior owing to the high&...
November 07, 2024
Elastic Anisotropy of Lizardite at Subduction Zone Condition...
September 14, 2022
AGU Abstracts
Understanding the stability of superionic phases in Earth's inner core
AGU 2024
mineral and rock physics | 10 december 2024
Yang Sun, Zepeng Wu, Chen Gao, Shunqing Wu, Kai Mi...
The superionic state is a unique phase of matter where liquid-like mobility occurs within a solid crystalline lattice. This peculiar state was recentl...
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Deep-learning-based prediction of the tetragonal to cubic transition in davemaoite
AGU 2024
mineral and rock physics | 10 december 2024
Renata Wentzcovitch, Tianqi Wan, Shunqing Wu, Yang...
Davemaoite, i.e., CaSiO3 perovskite (CaPv), is the third most abundant phase in the lower mantle and exhibits a tetragonal-cubic phase transition at h...
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H-bond disorder-symmetrization in δ-AlOOH under pressure: a view from phonon quasiparticles
AGU 2024
mineral and rock physics | 10 december 2024
Chenxing Luo, Sangjoon Lee, Hongjin Wang, Renata W...
δ-AlOOH is a prototypical high-pressure hydrous mineral known for its pressure-induced hydrogen bond disorder-symmetrization transition at 300 K. Rama...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2028
Editor
JGR Machine Learning and Computation Section
2025 - 2026
President
Mineral and Rock Physics Executive Committee
2025 - 2026
Section President
Council
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