Current team members
Veerle Vanacker
Group Leader
Full Professor in Geomorphology. Working on human-environment interactions and geomorphic process rates.
Rose Paque
PhD Candidate
MSc Geography. Working on climatic and topographic control on soil weathering and erosion in Galapagos Islands.
François Clapuyt
FNRS post-doctoral researcher
PhD in Sciences. Working on sediment dynamics as measured by cosmogenic radionuclides.
Angus Moore
post-doctoral researcher
PhD in Geology. Dissertation: Controls on volcanic arc weathering from cosmogenic nuclides
Former members
Ilia Alomia
PhD in Sciences (2023).
Thesis: Environmental impacts and benefits of agroforestry in the Galapagos Islands.
Nathan Vandermaelen
PhD in Sciences (2022).
Thesis: Further development in cosmogenic radionuclide applications in complex depositional environments: Middle Pleistocene deposits of the Meuse River
Sebastian Paez
PhD in Sciences (2022).
Thesis: Soil-water processes interactions in a landscape context in the Andean paramo.
Beatriz Gobbi
PhD in Sciences (2022).
Thesis: Monitoring forest degradation patterns using multi-resolution spatial approaches.
Miluska Rosas
PhD in Sciences (2022). PhD thesis: Climatic and anthropogenic influences on erosion and sediment yield in Andean basins.
Michiel Maertens
PhD in Sciences (2021). PhD thesis: The impact of deforestation on hydrology and soil salinity. Case-study in the South American Dry Chaco
Jérome Schoonejans
PhD in Sciences (2016). PhD thesis: Constraining soil formation and development through quantitative
analyses of chemical weathering and physical erosion.
Benjamin Campforts
PhD (2016) KULeuven-UCLouvain. PhD thesis: What goes up, must come down. Improving numerical simulation of landscape evolution at different timescales.
Pablo Borja Ramon
PhD in Sciences (2016). PhD thesis: Effectiveness of soil and water conservation treatments on soil and catchment restoration in the Tropical Andes.
Thi Thu Huong Hoang
PhD (2016) UCLouvain-KULeuven. PhD thesis: Multi-scale analysis of human-environment interactions. A case-study in the Northern Vietnamese mountains.
Vincent Balthazar
PhD in Sciences (2014). PhD thesis: Remote sensing of forest cover change and ecosystem dynamics in mountain areas.
Marie Guns
PhD in Sciences (2013). PhD thesis: Sediment dynamics in tropical mountain regions: influence of anthropogenic disturbances on sediment transfer mechanisms.
Nicolas Bellin
PhD in Sciences (2013). PhD thesis: Human impact on soil erosion based on 10Be cosmogenic radionuclide measurements in a semi-arid region: the case of the Betic Ranges.
Raul Ortega
Marie Curie Postdoc (2009-2012). Project: Effects of land cover change and land abandonment on sediment yield in semiarid mediterranean cathments using remote sensing, GIS and field techniques.
Nicolas Sougnez
Research assistant (2008-2011). PhD thesis: Constraining long-term 10Be derived denudation rates of the Ardennes Massif, Belgium.
