Research Interests
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I am a planetary scientist with a strong interest in understanding the evolution of planetary bodies, with an emphasis on the Earth and Mars. My work crosses several disciplines including igneous petrology, geochemistry, mineralogy, and sedimentology to assess the surface and interior evolution of Mars and Earth. I use various methods including observational rover and orbital data, modeling, and experimental petrology.
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Bio
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Hi there,
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science at Northern Arizona University, working with Dr. Mark Salvatore and Dr. Christopher Edwards. I will start as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iowa from Fall 2022! I combine sedimentology and igneous petrology to understand and constrain magmatic processes on Mars. I work on the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity team, and was previously a ChemCam team member. I completed my undergraduate and master's studies in Geochemistry at Ecole Normale Supérieure Ulm (ENS, Paris, France) and Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP, France). I obtained my Ph.D at Université de Lorraine (Nancy, France) with Dr. Cécile Fabre and Dr. Violaine Sautter with a dissertation entitled "Contribution of the ChemCam instrument to the understanding of the martian primitive crust and the weathering processes at the surface of Mars – Alkaline and metal trace element quantifications using LIBS (Li, Sr, Rb, Ba and Cu)". I did postdoctoral research in Mars magmatism with Dr. Kirsten Siebach and Dr. Rajdeep Dasgupta at Rice University. |
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Contact
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valerie.payre @ nau.edu
Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science 527 S Beaver St NAU Box 6010 Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6010 |
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