Catherine Annen
President
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.
Janine Kavanagh
Past President and Ordinary Member
Janine is a Reader in 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.
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 an MSc student at the University of the Philippines – National Institute of Geological Sciences. His current research focuses on the primary magma estimation and magma storage conditions of monogenetic and polygenetic volcanoes in Macolod Corridor, southwestern Luzon Arc.
Kerys Meredew
Focus On VIPS Blog Editor
Kerys is a PhD at the University of Birmingham. Her research aims to explore how magma-reservoirs evolve following edifice destruction, particularly looking at the volcanoes of Krakatau and Ritter Island.
Caitlin Chalk
Focus On VIPS Blog Editor
Caitlin is a Postdoc researcher at the University of Liverpool. She is interested in the fluid dynamics of the Earth, and how simplified models can be used to describe a wide range of complex phenomena – from debris flows to magma ascent.
Michal Camejo-Harry
Focus On VIPS Blog Editor
Michal is a Caribbean postdoctoral researcher based at the University of Oxford. Her research combines petrology and seismology for gaining insight into the depths and timescales over which magmas make their way to the surface, with a view towards eruption forecasting.
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.
Euan Mutch
Focus On VIPS Blog Editor
Euan is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University (USA). 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: