Valerie Payre

ExPeRT position: Weiss Postdoctoral Scholar since Fall 2018

Office: Keith-Weiss Geological Laboratories

Email: vpayre@rice.edu

Phone: (702)957-3197

Education:
Ph.D., Geosciences, University of Lorraine (France), 2017
M.Sc., Geochemistry, Institut de Physique do Globe de Paris, 2014
B.Sc., Geosciences, Ecole Normale Superieure Ulm (Paris), 2012 

Research Interests: 
My research interests are both weathering and magmatic evolution of  
planetary bodies, especially Mars. I consider sedimentary processes  
that undergone martian rocks to back up initial igneous processes,  
using remote data from the Curiosity rover, thermodynamic and  
experimental modeling.