We’re delighted to welcome Simon to Melbourne, where he began his stay with a trip to Prahran market (left). Simon will be learning about xeos development with Eleanor, aiming to calibrate a single clinopyroxene HPx-eos to replace the three that are currently used in different geological contexts. He will also help to manage this website.
Simon recently gained his PhD, working with Johann Diener at the University of Cape Town, with a thesis entitled High-temperature metamorphism in the western Namaqua-Natal Metamorphic Province (South Africa): implications for low-pressure granulite terranes.
The HPx-eos and THERMOCALC 