Janine Kavanagh
President
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
Former president and Committee 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.
Catherine Annen
Vice president
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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.
Chiara Montagna
Events and Outreach coordinator
Chiara is a Research Scientist at INGV, Italian National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology. Her research focuses on the physics of magma transport processes, using simpler semi-analytical approximations as well as more complex numerical modeling approaches.
Corin Jorgenson
ECR Student Representative
Corin is a Canadian doctoral candidate studying at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Corin’s research aims to uncover the nature of explosive alkaline eruptions in central Italy through the lens of CO2 rich melt inclusions and mineral chemistry.
Kerys Meredew
Focus On VIPS Blog Editor
Kerys is a PhD at the University of Birmingham in October. 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.
You can also see the previous committee members in the document below: