Postdoctoral Scholar

E-Mail: kvillalon@fieldmuseum.org

Research Focus:

Cosmochemistry, presolar grains, interplanetary dust

Biography:

PhD. Geophysical Sciences – Cosmochemistry (University of Chicago)

Chemistry, Planetary Science/Astronomy (University of Central Florida)

B.A. Majors: Art History, Spanish. Minor: Astronomy (Vanderbilt University)

Selected Publications

Villalon, K. L., Ohtaki, K. K., Bradley, J. P., Ishii, H. A., Davis, A. M., & Stephan, T. (2021). Search for meteoritic GEMS II: Comparison of inclusions in amorphous silicates from the Paris chondrite and from anhydrous chondritic interplanetary dust particles. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (in press).

Ohtaki K. K., Ishii H. A., Bradley J. P., Villalon K. L., Davis A. M., Stephan T., Bustillo K. C., and Ciston J. (2021) Search for meteoritic GEMS I: Comparison of amorphous silicates in Paris and Acfer 094 chondrite matrices and in anhydrous chondritic interplanetary dust particles. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (in press).

Heck, P. R., Schmitz, B., Rout, S. S., Tenner, T., Villalon, K., Cronholm, A., Terfelt, F. & Kita, N. T. (2016). A search for H-chondritic chromite grains in sediments that formed immediately after the breakup of the L-chondrite parent body 470 Ma ago. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 177, 120-129.