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Earth Science

D-Index
65
Citations
14173
World Ranking
1413
National Ranking
639

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1998 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1998 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Best Publications

  • Thermodynamics of mantle minerals - II. Phase equilibria

    Lars Stixrude;Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni

  • Thermodynamics of mantle minerals – I. Physical properties

    Lars Stixrude;Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni

  • Structure and elasticity of MgO at high pressure

    B.B. Karki;L. Stixrude;S.J. Clark;M.C. Warren

  • Petrology, elasticity, and composition of the mantle transition zone

    Joel Ita;Lars Stixrude

  • First-principles elastic constants for the hcp transition metals Fe, Co, and Re at high pressure

    Gerd Steinle-Neumann;Lars Stixrude;Ronald E. Cohen

  • The effect of bulk composition and temperature on mantle seismic structure

    Wenbo Xu;Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni;Lars Stixrude;Jeroen Ritsema

  • Structure and freezing of MgSiO3 liquid in Earth's lower mantle.

    Lars Stixrude;Bijaya Karki

  • Mineralogy and elasticity of the oceanic upper mantle: Origin of the low‐velocity zone

    Lars Stixrude;Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni

  • High-pressure elastic properties of major materials of Earth's mantle from first principles

    Bijaya B. Karki;Lars Stixrude;Renata M. Wentzcovitch

  • High-Pressure Elasticity of Iron and Anisotropy of Earth's Inner Core

    Lars Stixrude;R. E. Cohen

  • Elasticity of iron at the temperature of the Earth's inner core

    Gerd Steinle-Neumann;Lars Stixrude;R. E. Cohen;R. E. Cohen;Oguz Gülseren;Oguz Gülseren

  • Iron at high pressure: Linearized-augmented-plane-wave computations in the generalized-gradient approximation

    Lars Stixrude;R. E. Cohen;D. J. Singh

  • Thermodynamics of silicate liquids in the deep Earth

    Lars Stixrude;Nico de Koker;Ni Sun;Mainak Mookherjee

  • Thermal properties of iron at high pressures and temperatures

    Evgeny Wasserman;Lars Stixrude;Ronald E. Cohen

  • Composition and temperature of Earth's inner core

    Lars Stixrude;Evgeny Wasserman;Ronald E. Cohen

  • Thermoelasticity of Silicate Perovskite and Magnesiowustite and Stratification of the Earth's Mantle.

    Lars Stixrude;R. J. Hemley;Y. Fei;H. K. Mao

  • Ab initio studies of high-pressure structural transformations in silica

    B.B. Karki;M.C. Warren;L. Stixrude;L. Stixrude;Graeme Ackland

  • Geophysics of Chemical Heterogeneity in the Mantle

    Lars Stixrude;Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni

  • Thermal conductivity of periclase (MgO) from first principles.

    Stephen Stackhouse;Lars Stixrude;Bijaya B. Karki

  • First-principles simulations of liquid silica : Structural and dynamical behavior at high pressure

    Bijaya B. Karki;Dipesh Bhattarai;Lars Stixrude

Frequent Co-Authors

Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni
Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni University of California, Los Angeles
Ronald E. Cohen
Ronald E. Cohen Carnegie Institution for Science
Jeroen Ritsema
Jeroen Ritsema University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Renata M. Wentzcovitch
Renata M. Wentzcovitch Columbia University
Raymond Jeanloz
Raymond Jeanloz University of California, Berkeley
Barbara Romanowicz
Barbara Romanowicz University of California, Berkeley
Ignasi Ribas
Ignasi Ribas Institute of Space Sciences
Roger V. Yelle
Roger V. Yelle University of Arizona
P. Drossart
P. Drossart Université Paris Cité
Helmut Lammer
Helmut Lammer Austrian Academy of Sciences

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