Maître de Conférences at the Institut de physique du globe de Paris, University of Paris
Three most significant publications:
Le Losq C., Neuville D. R., Chen W., Florian P., Massiot D., Zhou Z., Greaves G. N. Percolation channels: a universal idea to describe the atomic structure and dynamics of glasses and melts​. Scientific Reports 7, 16490. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-16741-3
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Le Losq C., Neuville D. R., Florian P., Henderson G. S. and Massiot D., The role of Al3+ on rheology and structural changes in sodium silicate and aluminosilicate glasses and melts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 126, 495-517.
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Le Losq C., Neuville D. R., Moretti R. and Roux J., Determination of Water Content in Silicate Glasses using Raman Spectrometry, Implications for the study of explosive volcanism. American Mineralogist 97, 779-790.
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Book chapters:
2020 - Le Losq C. Cicconi M. R., Neuville D. R. Iron in silicate glasses and melts : implications for volcanological processes. Accepted for publication in AGU Monograph “Magma Redox Geochemistry”, eds Moretti R. and Neuville D.R. Preprint available at https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10503261.1
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2019 - Le Losq, C., Cicconi M. R., Greaves G. N., Neuville, D. R. Silicate Glasses. In : Springer Handbook of Glass, edited by J. David Musgraves, Juenjun Hu and Laurent Calvez. ISBN 978-3-319-93728-1.
Complete list of publications in peer-review journals:
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2020 - Le Losq C., Moretti R., Oppenheimer C., Baudelet F., Neuville D.R. In situ XANES study of the influence of varying temperature and oxygen fugacity on iron oxidation state and coordination in a phonolitic melt. Contributions in Mineralogy and Petrology, in press. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-020-01701-4
2019 - Hayward K. S., Hawkins R., Cox S. F., and Le Losq C. Rheological controls on asperity weakening during earthquake slip. Journal of Geophysical Research : Solid Earth. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jb018231
2019 - Dalou C., Hirschmann M. M., Jacobsen S. D., and Le Losq C. Raman spectroscopy study of C-O-H-N speciation in reduced basaltic glasses : Implications for reduced planetary mantles. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 265, 32–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.08.029
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2019 - Timmerman S., Honda M., Burnham A.D., Amelin Y., Woodland S., Pearson D.G., Jaques A.L., Le Losq C., Bennett V.C., Bulanova G.P., Smith C.B., Harris J.W., Tohver E., 2019. Primordial and recycled helium isotope signatures in the mantle transition zone. Science 365, 692–694. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax5293
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2019 - Zhou L., Mernagh T., Le Losq C. Observation of the chemical structure of water up to the critical point by Raman spectroscopic analysis of fluid inclusions. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, in press. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b02129
2019 - Le Losq C., Jollands M. C., Tollan P. M. E., Hawkins R., O'Neill St. C. H. Point defect populations of forsterite revealed by two-stage metastable hydroxylation experiments. Contributions to
Mineralogy and Petrology 174, 53. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-019-1590-6
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2019 - Le Losq C., Berry A. J., Kendrick M. A., Neuville D. R., O’Neill H. St. C. (2019) Determination of the oxidation state of iron in Mid-Ocean Ridge basalt glasses by Raman spectroscopy American Mineralogist, in press.
2019 - Anenburg M., Le Losq C. Perrhenate sodalite growth from alkali silicate melts by noble metal catalysis. SN Applied science 1, 372. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-019-0414-7
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2018 - Bénard A., Le Losq C., Nebel O., Arculus R. J. Low-Ca boninite formation by second-stage melting of
spinel harzburgite residues at mature subduction zones : New evidence from veined mantle xenoliths from the West Bis-
marck Arc. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 173(12), 105. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-018-1526-6
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2018 - Chen T., Gwanmesia G. D., Ehm L., Le Losq C., Neuville D. R., Phillips B. L., Li B., Liebermann R. C.
Synthesis and characterisation of polycrystalline KAlSi3O8-hollandite [liebermannite] : Sound velocities vs. pressure
to 13 GPa at room temperature. Comptes Rendus - Geosciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2018.09.009
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2017 - Le Losq C., Neuville D. R., Chen W., Florian P., Massiot D., Zhou Z., Greaves G. N. Percolation channels: a universal idea to describe the atomic structure and dynamics of glasses and melts. Scientific Reports 7, 16490. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-16741-3
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2017 - Le Losq C., Dalou C., Mysen B.O. In situ study at high pressure and temperature of the environment of water in hydrous Na and Ca aluminosilicate melts and coexisting aqueous fluids. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth 122, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014262.
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2017 - Le Losq C., Neuville D. R., Molecular structure, configurational entropy and viscosity of silicate melts: Link through the Adam and Gibbs theory of viscous flow. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 463: 175-188.
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2016 - Weigel C., Le Losq C., Vialla R., Dupas C., Clément S., Neuville D. R., Rufflé B., Elastic moduli of XAlSiO4 aluminosilicate glasses: effects of charge-balancing cations. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 447: 267-272.
2016 - Le Losq C., Mysen B. O., Cody G. D., Intramolecular fractionation of hydrogen isotopes in silicate quenched melts. Geochemical Perspectives Letters 2: 87-94. Link to the open access article
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2016 - Labidi J., Shahar A., Le Losq C., Hillgren V. J., Mysen B. O., Farquhar J., Experimentally determined sulfur isotope fractionation between metal and silicate and implications for planetary differentiation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 175: 181-194.
2016 - Heili M., Poumellec B., Burov E., Gonnet C., Le Losq C., Neuville D. R., Lancry M., The dependence of Raman defect bands in silica glasses on densification revisited, Journal of Material Science 51, 1659-1666.
2015 - Le Losq C., Cody G. D., Mysen B. O., Water and magmas: insights about the water solution mechanisms in alkali silicate melts from infrared, Raman, and 29Si solid-state NMR spectroscopies. Progress in Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2:22, doi:10.1186/s40645-015-0052-7. Link to the open access article
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2015 - Dalou C., Le Losq C., Mysen B. O., Cody G. D., Solubility and solution mechanisms of chlorine and fluorine in aluminosilicate melts at high pressure and high temperature. American Mineralogist 100, 2272-2283.
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2015 - Dalou C., Le Losq C., Mysen B. O., In situ study of the fractionation of hydrogen isotopes between aluminosilicate melts and coexisting aqueous fluids at high pressure and high temperature - Implications for the dD in magmatic processes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 426, 158-166.
2015 - Le Losq C., Cody G. D., Mysen B. O., Complex IR spectra of OH- groups in silicate glasses: implications for the use of the 4500 cm-1 IR peak as a marker of OH- groups concentration. American Mineralogist 100, 945-950.
2015 - Le Losq C., Cody G. D., Mysen B. O., Alkali influence on the water speciation and the environment of protons in silicate glasses revealed by 1H MAS NMR spectroscopy. American Mineralogist, 100, 466-473.
2015 - Le Losq C., Neuville, D. R., Moretti, R., Kyle, P. R., Oppenheimer, C., Rheology of Phonolitic Magmas - the case of the Erebus lava lake. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 411(1), 53-61.
2014 - Moretti R., Le Losq C. and Neuville D. R., The amphoteric behavior of water in silicate melts from the point of view of their ionic-polymeric constitution. Chemical Geology 367, 23-33.
2014 - Le Losq C., Neuville D. R., Florian P., Henderson G. S. and Massiot D., The role of Al3+ on rheology and structural changes in sodium silicate and aluminosilicate glasses and melts. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 126, 495-517.
2013 - Le Losq C., Moretti, R. et Neuville D. R., On the speciation and amphoteric behavior of water in aluminosilicate melts and glasses: High-Temperature Raman spectroscopy and reaction equilibria. European Journal of Mineralogy 25, 777-790.
2013 - Le Losq C. and Neuville D. R., Effect of the Na/K mixing on the structure and the rheology of tectosilicate silica-rich melts. Chemical Geology 346, 57-71.
2012 - Le Losq C., Neuville D. R., Moretti R. and Roux J., Determination of Water Content in Silicate Glasses using Raman Spectrometry, Implications for the study of explosive volcanism. American Mineralogist 97, 779-790.
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2010 - Neuville D. R., Florian P., Le Losq C. and Massiot D., Structure et propriétés des verres et des liquides : le rôle de l’aluminium. Matériaux & Techniques 98, 395-402.
2010 - Le Losq C. and Neuville D. R., La spectrométrie Raman, un outil de choix pour étudier les volatils dissous dans un verre ou un silicate fondu : le cas de l’eau. Matériaux & Techniques 98, 443-452.
