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Lidunka Vočadlo

 

Professor of Mineral Physics

UCL Earth Sciences 

 

Expertise: Deep Earth and terrestrial planetary cores

I use computers to understand Earth-like cores at extreme conditions of pressure and temperature. By simulating atoms in materials, we can understand so much about the Earth - from what it’s made of, to why we have a magnetic field.

Lidunka Vočadlo

More about Lidunka's expertise:

Why do we have earthquakes and volcanoes? Why do we have big mountains and deep trenches? It’s all because of what is going on in the deep Earth.

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