Dr. Marina Bastea
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
P.O. Box 808, L-286
Livermore, CA 94551-0808 USA

Phone: 925-424-2803
Fax: 925-424-3383

Email: bastea1@llnl.gov

Marina Bastea is a staff physicist in the Shock Physics group. Marina completed her Ph.D. in physics at Rutgers University (1997), on studies of thermodynamic and hydrodynamic properties of anisotropic superfluid phases of He3. Following a 1yr postdoc at the University of Michigan where she studied electronic and thermal transport in thermoelectric materials, Marina joined the Laboratory in 1998. Her area of interest and expertise is in the experimental physics of condensed matter systems under extreme conditions of pressure, temperature and magnetic field; this includes equation of state measurements as well as electronic transport properties such as electrical conductivity. She is currently studying non-equilibrium phenomena associated with material behavior under dynamic compression, e.g identifying the physical mechanisms as well as the time, length and energy scales associated with pressure driven phase transformations and elastic/plastic flow. In her research she has combined a suite of experimental techniques with modeling and computational tools to provide a broad picture of the relevant physics.

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