Tyler

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Tyler Perez joined Carnegie this January 2024 from Johns Hopkins University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Perez's area of expertise is developing new laser compression techniques to measure transport quantities of geomaterials at high pressures and temperatures. He has created a technique that can measure the viscosity of solid materials at high pressures using laser compression and velocimetry by tracking the time evolution of rippled shocks and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities. He has also begun experiments using this technique on MgO at CMB pressures. In addition, Perez has helped develop a laser compression technique to measure the thermal conductivity of iron by analyzing a thermal pulse traveling through the sample.

While at Carnegie, Perez plans to continue refining this technique to constrain confounding variables and improve the finite element model he developed for the analysis. He intends to compare the results and analysis process to the DAC-based technique invented by Carnegie's own Staff Scientist, Alexander Goncharov.