Mapping course in magmatic and metamorphic terrains 2022-23 in Corsica (Bonifacio, Corte and Saint Florent regions) with BA3 Geology students supervised by Juliette Faucher (PhD VUB_AMGC), Sibylle Boxho (Assistant and PhD ULB_G-Time) and Nadine Mattielli (Prof. ULB_G-Time). An enriching experience in terms of geology teaching and personal and group teaching. Wonderful and unique memories!
Karen Fontijn has won the 2023 R.V. Fisher Medal from the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior, recognising her contributions to volcanology via field observations, as well as international collaborations.
We have a new tabletop SNE-4500M Plus Scanning Electron Microscope, thanks to funding from FNRS.
Corentin Caudron becomes Investigator at the WEL Research Institute through a new project on geothermal monitoring entitled Geo4D. The drilling operation has started at Relais des Ingénieurs (Chaumont Gistoux).
Augustin Dekoninck has contributed to the Euradio emission entitled ‘Le Siècle des ampoules’. If you want to listen to his interview, it’s right here.
Our seismo-acoustic and CO2 work at Laacher See showcased here.
Purity has recently joined the group. Ms Purity Mwihaki Kamau has joined us on a sandwich PhD project between ULB and the University of Nairobi, with funding from ULB Cooperation. She is working on phosphate minerals in the Mrima Hill carbonatite in Kenya, and supervised by Daniel Ichang’i (UNairobi), Karen Fontijn (ULB) and Sophie Decrée (RBINS).
Julien Govoorts has been funded by an Aspirant-FNRS funding to work on subglacial seismology using seismometers and fibers. He will be co-supervised by C. Caucheteur (UMons) and K. Van Noten (Royal Observatory of Belgium).
Congratulations to the new Dr Amdemichael Zafu Tadesse, with his PhD thesis on the Bora-Baricha – Tullu Moye volcanic system in Ethiopia, funded by an FRS-FNRS Aspirant fellowship. Amdemichael will soon join the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford as a post-doctoral fellow, with funding from the Fonds Wiener Anspach.
Hamed Pourkhorsandi has been appointed as Chargé de Recherche at Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (France). Amazing news!
