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Committee Members

John Browning

President

John is Associate Professor of Rock Mechanics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago (Chile). He combines field, experimental and numerical techniques to better understand the mechanics of magma induced rock fracture and associated crustal deformation

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Catherine Annen

Ordinary Member

Catherine is a numerical earth scientist at the Institute of Geophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague (Czech Republic). She uses numerical simulations to investigate quantitatively the generation of melt reservoirs and understand the dynamics of magmatic systems.

Catherine was formally the President of VIPS between 2023-2024.

Janine Kavanagh

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Janine is a Chair of Volcanology and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Liverpool in the UK. Her research combines field studies with analogue experiments to gain insight into the ascent and emplacement of magmas.

Janine was formally the President of VIPS between 2020-2023.

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Steffi Burchardt

Ordinary Member

Steffi studies how magma is transported and how magma chambers form in the upper crust based on field studies of exposed intrusions. She is leading a research group at Uppsala University in Sweden that uses e.g. photogrammetry, 3D structural modelling, textural analysis.

Steffi was formally the President of VIPS between 2016-2020.

Sam Poppe

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Sam is a structural geologist at the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw). By using laboratory experiments, numerical simulations, observations in the field and from space, he investigates how magma propagates and deforms volcanoes on Earth and other rocky planets in our Solar System.

Matías Clunes Squella

ECR Representative

Matías is a Chilean Postdoc researcher at the University of Portsmouth. His research is focused on forecasting eruptions in long-repose time volcanoes using rock deformation experiments. 

John Michael Ausejo

ECR Representative

Mike is a Filipino research postgraduate student at the University of Hong Kong. His current research focuses on the petrological and geochemical conditions of some active volcanoes in Southeast Asia to understand their magma storage processes and eruption dynamics.  

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Michal Camejo-Harry

Focus On VIPS Blog Editor

Michal is a Caribbean volcanologist based in the United Kingdom. Her research has combined petrological and geophysical techniques for constraining the architecture and dynamics of magma plumbing systems.

Jade Hrintchuk

Focus On VIPS Blog Editor

Jade is a PhD student at the University of Liverpool. She is researching the plumbing systems of volcanic fissure eruptions, particularly studying the Budj Bim Volcanic Complex in Australia. 

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Lexi Kenis

Focus On VIPS Blog Editor

Lexi is a PhD student at the University of New Mexico. She focuses on relating surface deformation events observed with InSAR to magma ascent histories in the petrologic record. Her current method involves calibrating geophysical deformation models with mineral zoning in olivine grains. 

Wan Ki (Arthur) Lo

Focus On VIPS Blog Editor

Arthur is a PhD student at Penn State. He utilizes Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) and numerical modelling to study ground deformation in volcanic areas and better understand instabilities of volcanic flanks and craters. His current research focuses on Kilauea (Hawaii) and Nyiragongo (The Democratic Republic of Congo).

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Euan Mutch

Focus On VIPS Blog Editor

Euan is Assistant Professor at the Asian School of the Environment and Principal Investigator at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research combines expertise in experimental petrology, geochemical microanalysis and state-of-the-art numerical modelling to understand the generation, storage and eruption of magma on Earth and other planetary bodies.






You can also see the previous committee members in the document below:

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