Maizey Benner

Maizey is a 3^rd year Ph.D. student at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. Her research focuses on unraveling the thermodynamic history of phosphorus- and sulfur-bearing minerals in aqueously altered carbonaceous chondrites using coordinated electron microscopy techniques. Maizey uses the electron microprobe, Hitachi S4800 SEM, Helios focused ion beam, and Hitachi HF5000 S/TEM to characterize the structure and chemistry of these materials from the millimeter to atomic scale. As a complement to the characterization work, Maizey uses density functional theory and computational thermodynamics to understand the alteration conditions experienced on asteroidal parent bodies.