John Browning
President
John is Associate Professor of Volcanology at University College London (UK). He combines field, experimental and numerical techniques to better understand the mechanics of magma induced rock fracture and associated crustal deformation
Geoff Kilgour
Vice President
Geoff is the Chief Scientist of Volcano Hazards at Earth Sciences New Zealand. He is involved in operational monitoring of New Zealand’s active volcanoes and conducts a range of research covering sub-surface and eruption processes through experiments, field and laboratory analysis. This work covers a range of magma types and eruption styles, ultimately to understand magmatic and hydrothermal systems.
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
Conferences/events
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.
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.
Frankie Butler
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Frankie is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on magma mixing and mingling, investigating microtextures and their relationship to viscosity, geochemistry and broader structural controls. Frankie also has a keen interest in working to improve accessibility in geoscience, as a geoscientist with a physical disability, she assists with field trip redesign at university institutions.
Matías Clunes Squella
ECR Representative
Matías is a Postdoctoral researcher at Universidad de Chile. 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.
Jade Hrintchuk
Focus On VIPS Blog Editor (Co-Lead)
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.
Euan Mutch
Focus On VIPS Blog Editor (Co-Lead)
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.
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).
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.
Sonja Greiner
Focus On VIPS Blog Editor
Sonja is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Iceland. Her research focusses on dike emplacement, volcano-tectonics and the interaction between volcanic systems, which she studies using mainly surface deformation and numerical models.
Flavia Rojas Guzman
Focus On VIPS Blog Editor
Flavia is a PhD student at the University of Manchester. Her research combines textural analysis of pyroclasts with numerical modelling of magma ascent to investigate eruptive style transitions at basaltic volcanoes, with a focus on Villarrica (Chile) and Mt Etna (Italy).
You can also see the previous committee members in the document below: