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Przemyslaw Dera, PhD

University of Hawaii at Manoa
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
1680 East West Road, POST Bldg, Office 819E
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Phone: (808)956-6347
Fax: (808)956-3188
Email: pdera@hawaii.edu

Education

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
  • Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, March 2000
  • Thesis: "X-ray diffraction studies of molecular deformation at high pressure"
• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
  • M.Sc. & B.Sc., Theoretical Chemistry, June 1995
  • Thesis: "Chaotic behavior in dynamics of vibrations described by anharmonic potential"

Academic Employment

Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawaii at Manoa

• 2016- R5 Researcher (Full Professor equivalent, tenured)
• 2013-2016 R4 Associate Researcher (Assoc. Professor equivalent, tenure track)



Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• 2011/5-2013/1 Adjunct Associate Professor



Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, The University of Chicago

• 2013/8-2014/8 Visiting Scholar
• 2010/4-2013/8 Senior Research Associate (tenured)
• 2007/6-2010/4 Research Beamline Scientist (tenure track)



Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington

• 2003-2007 Associate Staff Scientist (principal investigator)
• 2002-2003 Senior Research Scientist
• 2000-2002 Distinguished Barbara McClintock Postdoctoral Fellow
• 1998 Predoctoral Fellow
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