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L'ecole Normale Superieure"in Paris. My education includes one semester in a foreign country for a research internship. Now, all my classmates are around the world.... Personally, I have chosen Japan for its unique culture that is really worth to discover, very close and very far from the European culture at the same time.
I am working in the high-pressure laboratory under the supervision of professor Irifune and F. Brunet (Invited scientist, JSPS fellow).
My research here is related to diamond formation in Nature. My work will focus on the study of the formation mechanisms and formation kinetics of diamond under high-temperature (> 1800 K) and high-pressure using the multi-anvil apparatus. Various starting materials will be compressed from perfect graphite to disorganized carbon. The run products will be characterized by X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy. I will also use the high-technology Focus Ion Beam technique to prepare the samples for Transmission Electron Microscopy. I will benefit from the help and the skill of the GRC staff to use these various characterization methods.
I have been here for two months now, and I have already seen a lot of wonderful landscapes and cultural stuffs, like the mountains of Shikoku, the hot springs, the volcanoes of Kyushu, the typical houses and temples.
I really enjoy living here, close to the nature, the sea and the mountain, always riding a bike which should be use in all towns around the world, even in Paris and New York. I appreciate Japanese food and language and I am actually trying to learn it, even if it doesn't go as fast as I would like.
I hope I will discover as many new experiences as possible in five months, and basically have good time in Matsuyama.
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