Simon
Gouzy

Fellowship: GIA’s Liddicoat Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Gem factor of opal
 
Areas of Expertise: Geology, Mineralogy, Opal, Solid-state Chemistry, Mineral-Organic Interactions
 
Title: Postdoc Research Associate, Colored Stones, New York, New York USA
 
Education:
Ph. D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences – specialty: mineralogy, Nantes University - France, 2024
M. Sc. in Geology, University of Quebec in Montreal – Canada, 2021
B. Sc. In Geology, University of Montpellier – France, 2019

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Selected Published Research:
 
Opal synthesis: Toward geologically relevant conditions
 
Preservation of biosignatures in opal probed by infrared nanospectroscopy
 
Insight on the global water distribution in opal considering its bi-component nature
 
Whitening of fire opal: Transformation of silica in soils