VINCIANE DEBAILLE

Maitre de recherche FNRS/FNRS

Senior research associate

Phone: +32 2 650 22 71

Email: vinciane.debaille@ulb.be

 

Research interests

My research consists of the study of the formation of the solar system from its building blocks, the chondrites, to the evolution of terrestrial planets such as Earth and Mars in a global geodynamic context as revealed by isotope geochemistry. I am also interested in the formation of chemically distinct reservoirs in planets and mixing between these reservoirs, mantle convection, mantle plumes, the role of the source mineralogy and of plate teconics and early planetary differentiation. To examine these issues, I am using several radiogenic isotope systems (Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, U-Th-Pb, Lu-Hf, Re-Os), including short-lived system 142Nd. I am also interested in the habitability of planets, i.e. when a planet could have sustain life, even if life did not appear.

Publications

Teaching activities

  • Géologie de la Belgique (BA1)
  • Géochimie des éléments en trace (BA3)
  • Isotope geochemistry (MA)
  • Cosmochemistry and Planetology (MA)