Razvan Caracas#
| Membership Number: | 6494 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://razvancaracas.info/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4586-776X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - present Senior Researcher - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Universite Paris Cite, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
- 2018 - present Adjunct Professor - Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- 2014 - 2021 Senior Researcher - Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon, France
- 2007 - 2014 Junior Researcher - Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon, France
- 2007 - 2008 Humboldt Fellow - Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
- 2006 - 2007 Post-doctoral/Research associate - Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
- 2004 - 2006 Carnegie Fellow - Carnegie Institution of Washington, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA
- 2003 - 2004 Post-doctoral/Research associate - University of Minnesota, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Minneapolis, MN, USA
- 1997 - 2003 Teaching assistant - Université Catholique de Louvain, Faculty of Sciences, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
- 1995 - 1997 Research assistant - University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, Department of Mineralogy, Bucharest, Romania
Fields of Scholarship
- Spectroscopy
- Geochemistry
- Mineral phyiscs
- Ab initio simulations
- Geophysics
- Planetary formation
- Extreme conditions
- Impacts
- Computational mineralogy
- Accretion
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America
- 2022 Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America
- 2020 PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) Award for 60 million CPU hours of computing time
- 2016 Ad Astra Award for Excellence in Research, Earth and Space Sciences, Bucharest, Romania
- 2015 ERC Consolidator Grant: “IMPACT. The giant impact and the Earth and Moon formation” (Grant agreement no. 681818)
- 2013 Research Excellence Medal of the European Mineralogical Union
- 2012 Prix Henri Buttgenbach, Académie Royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium
- 2007 Humboldt Fellow at Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, Germany
- 2004 Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA
- 1995 1st award Robert Weimar in Sedimentology, University of Bucharest, Romania
