Research
My research aims at investigating, quantifying and modelling subaqueous geomorphodynamic processes and assessing the related hazard. I am driven by a deep motivation to understand the processes that shape our environment and to inspire others to share this curiosity. Throughout my academic and professional journey, I've had the opportunity to work in Mongolia, Belgium, Spain, and Switzerland, engaging in a range of national and international fieldwork activities.
I have a strong focus on the geological and sedimentological aspect of subaqueous mass movements and their consequences, including tsunamis. In my research, I work with a combination of methods from limnogeology, sedimentology, geophysics, and GIS. Next to the broad field- (geophysical data acquisition, sediment coring, CPT) and laboratory-work (Core data analysis) experience, I have strong skills in developing conceptual approaches and conducting geospatial analyses. Please feel free to contact me if you have any ideas for collaboration.
Research Interest
- Natural hazard assessment
- Subaqueous mass movements
- Tsunamis
- Limnogeology
- Seismic stratigraphy
- Sediment dynamics
- Earthquakes
- Glaciology
- Geomorphodynamics
- Geospatial analyses
- Data acquisition, monitoring, and interpretation
Involvement in present and past projects:
- Construyendo REsiliencia en bosques gestionados frente al impacto del cambio climático
- Pilotprojekt Tsunamigefährdung: Application of workflow for tsunami hazard assessment (developed in TSUNAMI-CH phases 1 and 2) to Lake Geneva
- TSUNAMI-CH: Investigating the mass-movement induced tsunami hazard on Swiss Peri-Alpine lakes
- Lake Tsunamis: Causes, Consequences and Hazard
- artEmis (awareness and resilience through European multi sensor system): The European collaboration project aims at developing, building and operating a multi sensor system that will measure with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution changes in radon concentration in ground water and correlate them to earthquakes.
- Late Quaternary geomorphological and environmental response to rapid hydrological cycles in the Atlas Mountains, Morocco: Reconstruction of the Western Mediterranean hydro-climatic variability, seasonality and forcing mechanisms during the last 12,000 yr, based on a multi-proxi approach.
- Decoding and calibrationg the “lacustrine seismometer”: Investigating the relationship between thes seismological parameters of historical earthquakes and their lacustrine fingerprints on Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
- DYNAMITE: Dynamic Nankai Trough (Japan) and Swiss Molasse Basin: Investigating neotectonic, paleo-earthquakes and associated geohazards
Research group Quaternary Geology and Paleoclimatology
