California Institute of Technology

Paul D. Asimow
Associate Professor of Geology and Geochemistry
Photo of Paul D. Asimow
Mailing Address:
MC 170-25
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
A.B., Harvard University, 1991; M.S., Caltech, 1993; Ph.D., 1997. Assistant Professor, 1999-2005; Associate Professor, 2005-.

Research Interests

Computational, experimental, and observational igneous petrology; thermodynamic models of mantle melting; properties of minerals and silicate liquids at high pressure and temperature; mid-ocean ridge magmatism; shock wave research.

If you are looking for the adiabat_1ph software package, see http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~asimow/adiabat/.

If you want to learn about thermodynamic Phase Equilibria, visit my interactive online curriculum for visualization of free energy relationships in binary and ternary systems.

For my personal web page, see http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~asimow.

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