SPEAKERS

Plenary 1: September 29, 9:00 - 10:00 am (Room 1)

Agnes Dewaele CEA & Paris-Saclay University

Title: Extreme metallurgy

Speaker Introduction

Agnès Dewaele is a research director at Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA) and a research professor at Université Paris Saclay. She is also associated to Synchrotron Soleil. She performed a PhD at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon in Earth and Planetary Science. At CEA, she works on equations of state, phase transformations and their mechanisms, and reactivity of the elements under extreme conditions, often in close collaboration with theoreticians. She uses mainly the diamond anvil cell tool to generate these conditions, coupled with large scale X-ray facilities to characterize matter. She received the European High Pressure Research Group award.
Publication list is on :https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Qta2EywAAAAJ&hl=fr&oi=ao

Plenary 2: October 2, 9:30 - 10:00 am (Room 1)

Wendy Mao Stanford University

Title: Under Pressure: Materials Chemistry at Extreme Conditions

Speaker Introduction

Wendy Mao is a professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and was a J. R. Oppenheimer Post-doctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Wendy’s research group works on understanding the behavior of materials under extreme conditions. She uses diamond anvil cells and laser-shock compression to access high pressure and variable temperatures and studies the dramatic changes that are induced using a suite of laboratory and synchrotron x-ray and x-ray free electron techniques. Her work has applications in understanding Earth and planetary interiors and developing new energy-related materials. She is the recipient of the Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award and the Mineralogical Society of America Award, and is a fellow of the Geochemical Society, the European Association of Geochemistry, the American Geophysical Union, and the Mineralogical Society of America.

Plenary 3: October 3, 9:00 - 10:00 am (Room 1)

Yanming Ma Jilin University

Title: High-pressure superconductors with the emergent exciting physics

Speaker Introduction

Prof. Yanming Ma (http://mym.calypso.cn) is a distinguished Au-Chin Tang Professor in College of Physics, and vice President of Jilin University where he received his Ph.D in 2001. He was elected academician in physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2023. Ma’s research interests are in the development of simulation methods (e.g., CALYPSO at http://www.calypso.cn) for crystal structure prediction and large-scale electronic structure calculations of materials, and the use of these methods to investigate high pressure materials (e.g., hydrogen-based superconductors, etc). He recently established an experimental lab for syntheses and property characterization of materials at high pressure conditions. He received the Jamieson Award for High Pressure Science and Technology (2001) and the very first Walter Kohn Prize for Quantum-mechanical Materials and Molecular Modeling (2016).
Email: mym@jlu.edu.cn.

Hiroyuki Kagi The University of Tokyo

Title: Structure and Properties of Deep Earth Materials Containing Light Elements under High Pressure

Speaker Introduction

Hiroyuki Kagi is a professor at Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, where he also received his PhD. He began his academic career in 1991 as a research associate (assistant professor) at University of Tsukuba, working under Professor Masao Wakatsuki on synthetic diamond research. From 1996 to 1998, he was a visiting researcher at Stony Brook University, where he studied the synthesis of dense hydrous phases and conducted neutron diffraction experiments at high pressure. In 1998, he joined the Graduate School of Science at The University of Tokyo as a faculty member and later played a leading role in the construction of the high-pressure neutron beamline at J-PARC. His current research focuses on the pressure-response of hydrogen bonds in hydrous minerals to elucidate the behavior of water in the Earth’s interior, hydrogenation reactions of iron under high-pressure and high-temperature conditions to constrain the light element composition of the Earth’s core, and polymerization of organic compounds under pressure. He is the recipient of the Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences Award, the Geochemical Society of Japan Award, and is a fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America.

Bridgman Award: October 1, 9:00 - 10:00 am (Room 1)

Renata Wentzcovitch Columbia University

Title: Three decades of predictive simulations in mineral physics

Speaker Introduction

Former Professor at the University of Minnesota and a member of the graduate faculties at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Earth Sciences, Chemical Physics Program, and Scientific Computation Program, where she was Director of Graduate Studies. She holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Physics from the University of São Paulo and a Ph.D. degree in Condensed Matter Physics from UC Berkeley. A regular visiting professor at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste (IT), since 1998, and at the Tokyo Institute of Technology since 2002. Over the past two decades, her research has been focused primarily on Earth and planetary materials with special emphasis on acoustic/seismic properties of minerals, including those containing iron and undergoing spin-state crossovers. She is a fellow of APS, AGU, MSA, AAAS, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has received the Senior US Scientist Award from the Humboldt Foundation and the 2016 Wilhelm Heraeus visiting professorship from the University of Frankfurt. She has been Chair of the Division of Computational Physics of the APS, and she currently serves as President of the Mineral and Rock Physics of the American Geophysical Union. She is the winner of the 2025 Bridgman Award of the AIRAPT.

Jamieson Award: October 3, 10:30 -11:30 am (Room 1)

Dmitrii Semenok Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR)

Title: Superhydrides: Past Breakthroughs, Present Challenges, and Future Prospects

Speaker Introduction

Dr. Dmitrii Semenok, an advanced postdoctoral fellow of HPSTAR (Beijing), received his Ph.D. degree in 2022 from Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Moscow, Russia) under the supervision of Prof. Artem Oganov and Prof. Alexander Kvashnin. He received two MSc degrees from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT, degree in physics) and Skoltech (degree in material science) in 2018 after defending his master's thesis on computer modelling of superconducting hydrides of transition metals, lanthanides and actinides under high pressure. Dmitrii participated in experimental discoveries of many metal polyhydrides known today, including ThH10, YH6, CeH9-10, PrH9, NdH9, EuH9, BaH12, SnH4, La4H23, (La, Y)H10, (La, Nd)H10, (La, Ce)H10, etc. Email: dmitrii.semenok@hpstar.ac.cn.