Anne HofmeisterAnne M. Hofmeister is a research professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her PhD in geology from California Institute of Technology and has received several fellowships and award. She has served as editor of American Mineralogist and was recently the keynote speaker at the European Conference on Mineralogy and Spectroscopy. Her research interests include heat transport, thermodynamics, interaction of light with matter, and the applications of those fields to planetary sciences, earth sciences, astronomy, and materials science. She has authored over 100 journal articles, including conference proceedings. Read More Read Less