Razvan Caracas - Curriculum Vitae#

EDUCATION

• B.S. Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, University of Bucharest, 1997
  
• M. Sc. Faculty of Applied Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain, 2002
  
• PhD. Faculty of Applied Sciences, Université Catholique de Louvain, 2003
  
• Habilitation, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 2010

APPOINTMENTS

• Senior Researcher, CNRS, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, 2021 - present
  
• Adjunct Professor, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, University of Oslo, 2018 - present
  
• Senior Researcher, CNRS, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, 2014 - 2021
  
• Junior Researcher, CNRS, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, 2007 - 2014
  
• Humboldt Fellow Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, 2007 - 2008
  
• Research associate, Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, 2006 - 2007
  
• Carnegie Fellow Carnegie Institution of Washington, Geophysical Lab, 2004 - 2006
  
• Research associate, Univ. of Minnesota, Dept. Chem. Eng. Materials Sci, 2003 - 2004
  
• Teaching assistant, Université Catholique de Louvain, Faculté des Sciences, 1997 - 2003
  
• Research assistant, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, 1995 - 1997

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION

• 116 peer-reviewed papers with a total of 11300+ citations, 37 h-index, 75 i-10 index
  
• 218 oral presentations (out of which 96 invited)
  
• 3 patents: “Ordered Oxynitride Perovskites “ in Korea and USA

SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

The “Moon Impact – a geological story” itinerant exhibition telling the story of the giant impact and the formation of the Earth and the Moon, in the context of the geological evolution of the solar system. Shows in Romania (2021), Bulgaria (2022), Germany (2023-2024).

President of the 23rd General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, 2022

Main author of the UMD package (Universal Molecular Dynamics, https://github.com/rcaracas/UMD_package) to analyze the results of ab initio molecular-dynamics simulations

The WURM database (https://wurm.info) of computed physical properties of minerals, with a special focus on Raman spectroscopy

Participation to the ABINIT development (1998 - 2003, 2012 - 2015), last contribution: implementation of the elastic response in density functional perturbation theory in the projected augmented wavefunctions formalism

MAJOR AWARDS

• 2023 Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America
  
• 2022 Elected Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
  
• 2016 Ad Astra Award for Excellence in Research, Earth and Space Sciences
  
• 2015 ERC Consolidator Grant, IMPACT
  
• 2013 Research Excellence Medal of the European Mineralogical Union
  
• 2012 Prix Henri Buttgenbach, Academie Royale des sciences, des letters et des beaux-arts de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium

SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS

Current: 2 postdoctoral researchers, 2 PhD students, 2 visiting PhD students, 1 Master student, 1 engineer

Former: 2 Marie-Curie postdoctoral fellows, 3 postdoctoral researchers, 1 research engineer, 1 exhibition curator, 8 PhD students, 10 Master students, 4 undergraduate students