Hi, I am Eason. I am a postdoc associate at CLEVER Planets at Rice University, TX, working with Rajdeep Dasgupta. Prior to my appointment at Rice, I obtained my PhD at KU Leuven, Belgium, with the supervision of Olivier Namur, co-supervised with Bernard Charlier.
My research is rooted in igneous petrology, and I am broadly interested in the physical and chemical processes that govern interior evolution, volcanic activity, and magmatic differentiation on Earth and other rocky planets. I focus particularly on 1) mantle melting, differentiation and volatile evolution in the context of large-scale mantle heterogeneity, 2) the growth habits of crystals and their response to magmatic dynamics, and 3) the mechanisms of metal enrichment in magmatic ore-forming systems. To carry out my research, I integrate geochemical datasets, experimental petrology, field observations, thermodynamics, computational modelling, and geophysical constraints to quantitatively interrogate natural samples and experimental products in a multidisciplinary framework.
Besides experimental study, I am very enthusiastic about coding and data analysis, where I develop tools for the petrology/volcanology community. Python is my main coding language, I also have a touch on Matlab, LaTeX, shell scripting and HTML.
