I am the Principal Investigator of EPIC, the Experimental Petrology and Igneous processes Center in the School of Earth & Space Exploration at Arizona State University. We study magma: how and why it forms, its composition and timescales, and the resulting consequences for planetary differentiation. We do this through studying volcanoes and their magma source regions, conducting high pressure and temperature experiments to simulate magma formation in the lab, and computational modeling of magmatic processes.