Daniele Antonangeli

Expertise

EXPERTISE

Topics: structural and dynamical properties of condensed matter at extreme thermodynamic conditions, high pressure and high temperature, phonon dispersion, phonon scattering, sound wave propagation, elasticity, phase diagram, phase transition and transition mechanisms, structure and thermo-elastic properties of solids and liquids, elastic and thermal properties of Earth and planetary materials, Earth’s deep interior, inner structures and properties of telluric planetary bodies (Moon, Mercury, Mars).

Techniques: inelastic x-ray scattering, x-ray diffraction, Raman, infrared and Brillouin spectroscopy, picosecond acoustics, ultrasonic techniques.

Devices: high pressure and high temperature generating devices, diamond anvil cells, resistively heated and laser heated diamond anvil cells, large volume presses.

Function and attachment

 Senior research scientist (directeur de recherche), Deputy director of the Institut

Administration of research

• Since April 2021: Deputy director of the Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), unité mixte de recherche de Sorbonne Université, du Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) et de l'Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)

• InSight, Science Team Member (co-I), NASA Discovery Program mission.

• Since October 2016: editorial board member for Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group).

• Since October 2017: member of the Scientific Council of IMPMC

• Since April 2021: member of the SOLEIL beamtime allocation panel PRC 3 “Matter and material properties: Structure, Organisation, Characterisation, Elaboration”

• Since March 2023: member of the panel “Outreach” of the DIM ORIGINES.

• Since May 2023: Member of Panel 03, Evaluation Committee PRIN-PNRR, Ministry of University and Research, Italy.

• From December 2022 to May 2023: Member of Panel 03, Evaluation Committee PRIN, Ministry of University and Research, Italy.

• From April 2022 to March 2023: member of the panel “Origine du milieu interstellaire, des étoiles et des systèmes exoplanétaires” of the DIM ORIGINES.

• September 2022: panel member for inter-classification of the proposals of promotion of the CNRS IT staff of the BAP C " Sciences of the engineer and scientific instrumentation”.

• September 2021: panel member for inter-classification of the proposals of promotion of the CNRS IT staff of the BAP C " Sciences of the engineer and scientific instrumentation”.

• From October 2017 to March 2021: group responsible of the research team “MP3-mineralogy, petrology and planetary physics” (counting 10 staff members, and 8 to 12 PhD students and post-docs depending the period).

• June 2016: Member of hiring committee:  Concours ASI en BAP C externe − UPMC

• April 2016: peak load reviewer for the beam time allocation panel 05 of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility.

• From September 2014 to September 2019: member of the “comité de pilotage de l’axe 5 du LabEx MATISSE” (steering committee, area of competence: materials under extreme conditions).

• From October 2013 to December 2016: member of the “commission locaux de l’IMPMC” (office and laboratory space allocation).

• From March 2012 to July 2014: member of the beam time allocation panel 05 (former HS) of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility.

• From September 2011 to September 2015: member of the “comité d'experts 28ème section, Université Pierre et Marie Curie” (recruitment and selection panel, condensed matter physics).

• Reviewer for: Science; Nature Geosci.; Nature Phys.; Nature Comm.; Sci. Reports; PNAS; Rev. Modern Physics; Phys. Rev. Lett.; Phys. Rev. B; Phys. Rev. M.; Phys. Rev. E; J. Appl. Phys.; Phys. B; Earth Planet. Sci. Lett.; Phys. Earth Planet. Inter.; Geophys. Res. Lett.; J. Geophys. Res.; Am. Mineral.; Europ. J. Mineral.; Phys. Chem. Min.; Progress Earth Planet. Sci., Min. Mag.; High Press. Res.; Minerals, Chem. Phys. Lett.; J. Appl. Cryst.; CRAS, MRE (total of 125 papers reviewed so far, without considering resubmissions).

• Reviewer for the National Science Fundation of the United States of America (NSF).

• Reviewer for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

• Reviewer for the Swiss National Science Fundation (SNSF).

• Reviewer for CNRS-INSU

• Reviewer for Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), United Kingdom

• Reviewer for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

• Reviewer for Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), United Kingdom

• Reviewer for Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF), United Kingdom

• Reviewer for the European Research Council (ERC)

• Reviewer for the Ministry of University and Research, Italy

• Reviewer for the UK Space Agency, United Kingdom

Teaching and mentoring

• Since 2022, Physics, 1st year students, Sorbonne Université, “Research in physics of today and tomorrow”.

• Since 2019, Master SMNO (materials science), M2, Sorbonne Université, “Physics of materials under extreme conditions”.

• Since 2017, Master STePE (Earth and planetary science), M1, Sorbonne Université, “Dynamics and mineralogy of the deep Earth”.

• From 2016 to 2018, Master SMNO (material science), M2, Sorbonne Université, “Physics of dense materials”.

• From 2012 to 2015, Master SMNO (material science), M2, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, “Materials at extreme conditions and Earth science”.

• Supervision of PhD students: 4 (1 ongoing)

• Supervision of post-doctoral researchers: 8 (2 ongoing)

• Supervision of bachelor (L3) and master (M1 and M2) students (so far 6 L3, 6 M1 and 12 M2 students).

Career

• Since October 2020: CNRS senior research scientist (DR2) at the Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux, et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC), UMR CNRS 7590, Sorbonne Université, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.

• November 2011 – September 2020: CNRS research scientist (CR1) at the Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux, et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC), UMR CNRS 7590, Sorbonne Université, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.

• November 2007 – November 2011: CNRS research scientist (CR2) at the Institut de Minéralogie et de Physique des Milieux Condensés (IMPMC), CNRS UMR 7590, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Université Pierre er Marie Cuire – Paris 6, Université Paris Diderot – Paris 7, Paris, France.

• April 2005 – November 2007: Post Doctoral Research Staff Member at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA-USA.

• February 2002 – January 2005: PhD program work at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France.

Publications

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Awards and Distinctions

• Recipient of the 2023 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize for the paper “Seismic detection of the martian core” published in Science on 23 July 2021

• Selected in 2017 by the journal “Cartaditalia” amongst the 70 best Italian researchers under 40 (worldwide, all disciplines)

• CNRS, “prime d’excellence scientifique” (2011-2014)

Funded Projects (as PI)

• 2023: 5k€, CNES, Appel à Propositions de Recherche, “Probing Mars’ deep interior: a combination of seismic SEIS/InSight data with mineralogical and petrological experiments and models”.

• 2022: 6k€, CNES, Appel à Propositions de Recherche, “Probing Mars’ deep interior: a combination of seismic SEIS/InSight data with mineralogical and petrological experiments and models”.

• 2018: 50 k€, CNES, “Participating Scientists” InSight/SEIS, “Probing Mars’ deep interior: a combination of seismic SEIS/InSight data with mineralogical and petrological experiments and models”

• 2017: 1596 k€, ERC Consolidator Grant 2016, “Planetary interiors constrained by key laboratory experiments (PICKLE)”.

• 2016: 55 k€, LabEx MATISSE, équipement, “Acoustic measurements at extreme pressure and temperature conditions” (co-PI).

• 2016: 5 k€, CNRS-INSU, Actions sur projets, action de suivi, PNP: Programme National de Planétologie, “Constraints on telluric planetary cores by sound velocity and density measurements”.

• 2015: 3-years PhD salary, Sorbonne Universités / China Scholarship Council program, “Microscopic approach to the thermal transport in model non conducting oxides under extremes conditions”.

• 2015: 5 k€, CNRS-INSU, Actions sur projets, PNP: Programme National de Planétologie, “Constraints on telluric planetary cores by sound velocity and density measurements”.

• 2014: 3-years PhD salary and 23k€, LabEx MATISSE, “Sound wave propagation and thermal relaxation in Fe and Fe-alloys at extreme conditions”.

• 2012: 49 k€, DIM OxyMORE, Region Ile de France, petit/moyen équipement, “Determination of thermal conductivity of oxides at very high pressure”.

• 2010: 185 k€, ANR, Programme JCJC2010, SIMI6, “Heat transport in deep planetary interior (HT-DPI)” (ANR no 2010-JCJC-6040-01).

• Fiscal year 2006: 87 k$, LLNL, Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program, Feasibility Study, “Thermal diffusivity and thermal conductivity measurements in a diamond anvil cell”.

French and foreign diplomas

• 05/12/2018     Habilitation à diriger les recherches (Habilitation), Faculté des Science et Ingénierie, Sorbonne Université. Mémoire d’habilitation “Structure and dynamics of planetary-forming materials under extreme conditions”.
• 14/01/2005     Diplôme de Docteur de l’Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6 (PhD) in Physics and Chemistry of Materials, defending the thesis entitled “Elasticity and sound wave anisotropy of hcp metals at high pressure” into the presence of dr. P. Loubeyre, dr. H.K. Mao, prof. A. Shukla, prof. H.C. Nataf, dr. G. Steinle-Neumann, dr. G. Fiquet (advisor) and dr. M. Krisch (advisor).
• 18/07/2001     Laurea in Fisica (master in Physics), Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, with a final grade of 110/110 “summa cum laude”, defending a thesis entitled “Vibrational spectroscopy of fluid halogens at high pressure”, supervised by prof. M. Nardone. All exams passed on time, on a curriculum emphasizing Condensed Matter Physics, average mark of 29.4/30, passing the exam for nine subjects “cum laude”.

Clubs, learned societies and associations

American geophysical union