Audrey Bouvier, University of Bayreuth
Primitive and basaltic achondrite meteorites provide insights into planetesimal formation and differentiation processes. The increasing number and diversity of achondrite meteorites contribute to a better understanding of chemical reservoirs, accretion timescales, and dynamical evolution of planetary bodies throughout the Solar System. This presentation will give an overview of their petrological significance and comparative chronology in addressing several key questions about the formation of the protoplanetary disk and planets.
About the presenter
Audrey Bouvier is a cosmochemist and professor at the Bavarian Research Institute of Experimental Geochemistry and Geophysics at the University of Bayreuth. In her research, she principally uses petrological and metal isotope studies of meteorites and returned samples to assess the origin, evolution, and impact histories of planetary materials and their parent bodies. She was a member of the JAXA Hayabusa2 initial analysis chemistry team of Ryugu, and is currently an ESA-appointed member of the Mars Sample Return Campaign Science Group and of the Science Strategy Team on Early Solar System Evolution and Sample Analysis Working Team of the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) JAXA mission. She received the Nier Prize (2013) and is a Fellow (2018) of the Meteoritical Society.