Research Focus
- Physical properties of geomaterials at pressures and temperatures of planetary interiors
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Academic Education
- Doktor der Naturwissenschaften (Dr.rer.nat) - Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth (Germany)
- MSc in Exploration Geology - Roma La Sapienza (Italy)
- BSc in Geological Sciences - Roma La Sapienza (Italy)
Positions
- Akad. Rat auf Zeit in Experimental Mineral Physics - Institute for Mineralogy, University of Münster (Germany)
- Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Mineral Physics - Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Research Articles (Journals)
- Trautner, V.E., Rijal, A., Plueckthun, C., Satta, N., Koemets, E., Buchen, J., Wang, B., Glazyrin, K., Cobden, L., and Marquardt, H. . “Iron Content-Dependence of Ferropericlase Elastic Properties Across the Spin Crossover From Novel Experiments and Machine Learning.” Geophysical Research Letters 51. doi: 10.1029/2024GL111276.
- Satta, N., Criniti, G., Kurnosov, A., Boffa, Ballaran T., Ishii, T., and Marquardt, H. . “Elastic anomalies across the P21nm-Pnnm structural phase transition in δ-(Al,Fe)OOH.” American Mineralogist 109 (11). doi: 10.2138/am-2023-9129.
- Núñez-Valdez, M., Satta, N., and Speziale, S. . “Effects of Fe-Ca-Mg substitutions on the equation-of-state of pyrope-rich garnet from ab initio modeling and experiments: Insights and implications for the upper mantle.” Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 350: 107171. doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2024.107171.
- Trautner, E.V., Stackhouse, S., Turner, R.A., Koelemeijer, P., Davies, D.R., Méndez, S.J. A., Satta, N., Kurnosov, A., Liermann, H.-P., and Marquardt, H. . “Compressibility of ferropericlase at high-temperature: Evidence for the iron spin crossover in seismic tomography.” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 618. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118296.
- Satta, N, Miyahara, M, Ozawa, S, Marquardt, H, Nishijima, M, Arai, T, and Ohtani, E. . “Apollo 15 regolith breccia provides first natural evidence for olivine incongruent melting.” American Mineralogist 107: 1661–1667. doi: 10.2138/am-2022-8121.
- Méndez, J.S. A., Stackhouse, S., Trautner, V., Wang, B., Satta, N., Kurnosov, A., Husband, J.R., Glazyrin, K., Liermann, H.‐P., and Marquardt, H. . “Broad Elastic Softening of (Mg,Fe)O Ferropericlase Across the Iron Spin Crossover and a Mixed‐Spin Lower Mantle.” Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth 127 (8). doi: 10.1029/2021JB023832.
- Satta, N., Morales, Grafulha F. L., Criniti, G., Kurnosov, A., Ballaran, Boffa T., Speziale, S., Marquardt, K., Capitani, G.C., and Marquardt, H. . “Single‐Crystal Elasticity of Antigorite at High Pressures and Seismic Detection of Serpentinized Slabs.” Geophysical Research Letters 49 (16). doi: 10.1029/2022GL099411.
- Satta, N., Criniti, G., Kurnosov, A., Ballaran, Boffa T., Ishii, T., and Marquardt, H. . “High‐Pressure Elasticity of δ‐(Al,Fe)OOH Single Crystals and Seismic Detectability of Hydrous MORB in the Shallow Lower Mantle.” Geophysical Research Letters 48 (23). doi: 10.1029/2021GL094185.
- Méndez, J.S. A., Marquardt, H., Husband, J.R., Schwark, I., Mainberger, J., Glazyrin, K., Kurnosov, A., Otzen, C., Satta, N., Bednarcik, J., and Liermann, H.-P. . “A resistively-heated dynamic diamond anvil cell (RHdDAC) for fast compression x-ray diffraction experiments at high temperatures.” Review of Scientific Instruments 91. doi: 10.1063/5.0007557.
- Koemets, I, Satta, N, Marquardt, H, Kiseeva, ES, Kurnosov, A, Stachel, T, Harris, JW, and Dubrovinsky, L. . “Elastic properties of majoritic garnet inclusions in diamonds and the seismic signature of pyroxenites in the Earth's upper mantle.” American Mineralogist 105: 984–991. doi: 10.2138/am-2020-7136ccby.
- Satta, N, Marquardt, H, Kurnosov, A, Buchen, J, Kawazoe, T, McCammon, C, and Ballaran, TB. . “Single-crystal elasticity of iron-bearing phase E and seismic detection of water in Earth's upper mantle.” American Mineralogist 104: 1526–1529. doi: 10.2138/am-2019-7084.
Dr. Niccolò Satta
