Leyla Ismailova

Biography

Dr. Leyla Ismailova graduated from the Department of Mineralogy at the Moscow State University in 2013, and then started her graduate studies at the University of Bayreuth, Germany and Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In August 2016, she received a Ph.D. degree in Natural Sciences. During her bachelor and master study, Leyla was experimentally investigating diamond forming efficiency in chloride-silicate-carbonate systems at high pressures and temperatures. At the University of Bayreuth, she conducted an experimental study of the system FeO-Fe2O3-SiO2 at high pressures and temperatures with a focus on mantle minerals, such as garnet, bridgmanite and post-perovskite. Leyla has an expertise in testing mechanical properties (density, porosity, permeability, elasticity) of rocks, synthesizing materials at extreme conditions, and investigating materials using different diffraction and spectroscopic techniques including Raman, Mössbauer, XANES. During her PhD studies, Leyla worked in different labs using synchrotron radiation to study materials at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble, France, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron in Hamburg, Germany, and Advanced Photon Source – Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, USA. She has 8 publications in peer-reviewed journals, including Science Advances, Nature Communications, Nature Scientific Reports and American Mineralogist.

Research Interest

Experimental study of micron scale features of core samples from hydrocarbon reservoirs