Deng Liwei, Associate Professor

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Deng Liwei, Associate Professor, is a high-level talent in Shenzhen. She received her bachelor's degree from Sichuan Normal University in 2003, and her doctorate degree from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2008. She was a doctoral visitor at Carnegie Geophysical Institute, Washington, USA, from 2006 to 2007. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, from October 2008 to September 2010, and a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Geophysical Institute, Washington, USA, from October 2010 to September 2012; she was a visiting scholar at Argonne National Laboratory, USA, from April 2013 to July 2013. She was appointed as a post professor by the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences from October 2015 to October 2018, as an associate researcher by the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences from September 2012 to November 2018, and as an associate professor by the School of New Materials and New Energy, Shenzhen Technology University in November 2018. She is the author of more than ten scientific research papers. She has been in charge of the general program "Experimental study of carbon solubility in mantle MgSiO3 perovskite crystals and melts" of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and the "Molecular simulation and impact compression experiments on the stability of sodium feldspar NaAlSi3O8 phase in mantle under temperature and pressure conditions" of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation and the "High-pressure carbon solubility in mantle MgSiO3 perovskite crystal" by the Ministry of Education Scientific Research Start-up Fund for Returned Overseas Chinese She participated in the Strategic Pioneer Science and Technology Project (Class B) "Earth's Internal Operating Mechanism and Surface Response" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Major Project "Geological Evolution of the Early Moon (4.5-3 billion years)" of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She is mainly engaged in theoretical and experimental research on the physical properties of materials under extreme conditions.

Academic Background:

September 2003 - October 2008, Southwest Jiaotong University, College of Science, Doctor of Engineering

September 2006 - September 2007, Carnegie Geophysical Institute, Washington, D.C., USA, Postdoctoral Visit

September 1999- July 2003, Sichuan Normal University, Department of Physics, Bachelor of Science

Work Experience:

November 2018-Present Shenzhen Technology University, School of New Materials and New Energy, Associate Professor

September 2012- November 2018 Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Unit of Deep Earth Structure and Processes, Associate Researcher

October 2015 - October 2018 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor

April 2013 - July 2013, Argonne National Laboratory, USA, Visiting Scientist

October 2010 - September 2012, Carnegie Geophysical Institute, Washington, D.C., USA, Postdoctoral Researcher

October 2008 - September 2010, Peking University, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Postdoctoral Research Researcher

Major Honors:

Selected for Shenzhen High-level Talent Program in 2019

Research Interests:

1. Numerical simulation research of materials under extreme conditions

2. Experimental research on materials at high temperature and pressure

Research Projects:

1. Special Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences for Strategic Pioneering Science and Engineering (Class B), "Earth's internal operating mechanism and surface response", January-December 2018, RMB 100,000, completed, principal investigator.

2. NSFC Major Project, 41490632, "Geological Evolution of the Earlier Moon Era (4.5-3 billion years)", January 2015- December 2019, RMB1 million, completed, Hard core.

3. National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Program, 41374096, Experimental Study on Carbon Solubility in Mantle MgSiO3 perovskite Crystal and Melts, January 2014 - December 2017, RMB 800,000, completed, principal investigator.

4. Ministry of Education Scientific Research Foundation Fund for Returned Overseas Chinese, High Pressure Carbon Solubility in Mantle MgSiO3 perovskite Crystal, January 2015 – December 2016, RMB 30,000, completed, principal investigator.

5. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Major International (Regional) Collaborative Research Project, 41020134003, Phase Changes and Chemical Changes of Carbonaceous Fluids and Minerals in the Deep Earth, 2011-2014, RMB 2 million, completed, Hard core.

6. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 20090450224, Molecular Simulation and Impact Compression Experiments of NaAlSi3O8 Phase Stability of Sodium Feldspar under Mantle Temperature and Pressure, July 2009 – September 2010, RMB 30,000, completed, principal investigator.

7. Innovation Fund for Doctoral Students, Southwest Jiaotong University, Experimental Measurement of the Equation of State for Impact Compression of MgSiO3 perovskite, 2005, RMB 20,000, completed, principal investigator.

Representative Papers:

1. Liwei Deng, Yoshio Kono, Guoyin Shen, Sound wave velocities of Fe5Si at high pressure and high temperature conditions: implications to lunar and planetary cores, American Mineralogist,104, 291-299,2019

2. Xie Mengyu, Lu Yafei, Zou Xinyu, Deng Liwei (Correspondence). Experimental study of water diffusion in olivine under lunar mantle conditions. Journal of High Pressure Physics, 32(1),71-81, 2018

3.Liwei Deng, Yingwei Fei, Xi Liu, Zizheng Gong , Anat Shahar, Effect of carbon, sulfur and silicon on iron melting at high pressure: Implications for composition and evolution of the planetary terrestrial cores, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2013, 114(4): 220–233

4.Liwei Deng, Chris Seagle, Yingwei Fei, Anat Shahar, Electrical resistivity of iron at high pressure and high temperature with the implication for the Earth’s core,Geophysical Research Letters,2013, 40, 33-37

5.Liwei Deng,Xi Liu, Hong Liu, Yigang Zhang, A first-principles study of the phase transition from Holl-I to Holl-II in the composition KAlSi3O8, American Mineralogist, 2011, 96, 974-982

6.Liwei Deng, Xi Liu, Hong Liu, Jianjun Dong, High-pressure phase relations in the composition of albite NaAlSi3O8 constrained by an ab initio and quasi-harmonic Debye model, and their implications, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2010, 298, 427-433

7.Liwei Deng, Jijun Zhao, Hong Liu, Di Wu, Zizheng Gong*, Pressure-related Phase Stability of MgSiO3 and (Mg0.75, Fe0.25) SiO3 at Lower Mantle Condition,International Journal of Modern Physics B, 2009, 23, 3323-3329

8.Liwei Deng, Zizheng Gong, Yingwei Fei, Direct shock wave loading of MgSiO3 perovskite to lower mantle conditions and its equation of state, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2008, 170, 210-214

9.Liwei Deng, Jijun Zhao, Guangfu Ji, Zizheng Gong, Dongqing Wei, First-Principles Study of Orthorhombic Perovskites MgSiO3 up to 120GPa and Its Geophysical Implications,Chinese Physics Letters,2006, 23, 2334-2337

10. Qiang He,Xi Liu,Baosheng Li,Liwei Deng, Wei Liu, Liping Wang, Thermal equation of state of a natural kyanite up to 8.55 GPa and 1273 K,Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2016, 1, 269-276

11. Qiang He,Xi Liu,Baosheng Li,Liwei Deng,Zhiqiang Chen,Xiaoyang Liu,Hejing Wang,Expansivity and compressibility of strontium fluorapatite and barium fluorapatite determined by in situ X-ray diffraction at high-T/P conditions: Significance of the M-site cations,Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 2013, 40, 349-360

12. Qiang He, Xi Liu, Xiaoming Hu,Liwei Deng, Zhiqiang Chen, Baosheng Li, Yingwei Fei, Solid solutions between lead fluorapatite and lead fluorvanadate apatite: compressibility determined by using a diamond-anvil cell coupled with synchrotron X-ray diffraction, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 2012, 39, 219-226

13. Anat Shahar, Valerie J. Hillgren, Edward D. Young, Yingwei Fei, Catherine A. Macris,Liwei Deng, High-temperature Si isotope fractionation between iron metal and silicate, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2011, 75, 7688-7697

14. Xi Liu, Qiang He,Liwei Deng, ShuangMeng Zhai, XiaoMin Hu, BaoSheng Li, LiFei Zhang, ZhiQiang Chen, Qiong Liu, Equation of state of CAS phase to pressure of the uppermost lower mantle at ambient temperature, Science China D: Earth Sciences, 2011, 54, 1394-1399

15. Xi Liu,Wei Liu,Qiang He,Liwei Deng,Hejin Wang,Duanwei He,Baosheng Li, Isotropic Thermal Expansivity and Anisotropic Compressibility of ReB2,Chinese Physics Letters, 2011, 28(3):036401

16. Xi Liu, ZhangYi Hu,Liwei Deng, Feldspars under conditions of high temperature-high pressure, Acta Petrologica Sinica, 2010, 26, 3641-3650

17. Angele Ricolleau, Yingwei Fei, Elizabeth Cottrell, Heather Watson,Liwei Deng, Li Zhang, Guillaume Fiquet, Anne-Line Auzende, Mathieu Roskosz, Guillaume Morard, Vitali Prakapenka, Density profile of pyrolite under the lower mantle conditions, Geophysical Research Letters, 2009, 36, L06302

18. Nishad A. Phatak, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Vadym Drozd, Surendra K. Saxena,Liwei Deng, Yingwei Fei, Jingzhu Hu, Wei Luo, Rajeev Ahuja, Synthesis and compressive behavior of Cr2GeC up to 48 GPa, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2008, 463, 220-225

19. Jinke Yang, Zizheng Gong,Liwei Deng, Yingwei Fei, Equation of State and Phase Transition of (Mg0.92, Fe0.08) SiO3 Enstatite under Shock Compression and Its Geophysical Implications，The Chinese Journal of High Pressure Physics, 2006, 20(2): 35-41

Contact Information:

E-mail: dengliwei@sztu.edu.cn