Curriculum vitae

Louvain-La-Neuve

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Personal details

Belgian citizen, born in Leuven on 26 November 1976, two children


Education

PhD (2002), Geomorphology with Focus on human impact assessment, KU Leuven (Belgium) with Gerard Govers and Jean Poesen

MSc (1998), Physical Geography, KU Leuven (Belgium)

BSc (1996), Geography, KU Leuven (Belgium)


Employment

2006-now    Assistant Professor in Geomorphology, Earth and Life Institute, University of Louvain (Belgium)

2005-2009  Research Assistant at the University of Louvain (Belgium)

2003-2005  Marie Curie EU Postdoctoral Fellow at Liebniz University of Hannover, Germany (with Friedhelm von Blanckenburg)

2002-2003  Postdoctoral Researcher at Lab for GIS and Remote Sensing, University of Louvain, Belgium (with Eric Lambin)

1998-2002  Doctoral Fellow, KU Leuven (Belgium)

Honours and awards

Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (FNRS), 2005-2009

Research highlight in Nature (paper by Vanacker et al (2007), "Restoring dense vegetation can slow mountain erosion to near natural benchmark levels", Geology 35(4): 303-306).

Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, University of Hannover, Germany, 2003-2005

Development Cooperation Prize. Belgian Directorate-General, 2003.

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1998-2002

Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Flemish Association of geographers, 2000.

Graduate Student Award, British Council, University of Edinburgh, 1998

International collaborations and study visits

2006   Visiting Scientist, Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US (with Kelin Whipple)

2006   Visiting Scientist , Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, US (with Arjun Heimsath), 3 months

2004   Visiting Scientist, ETH Zurich (with Peter Kubik)

2001   Visiting Scientist, Universidad de Cuenca (Ecuador)

Field work and sampling campaign in Ecuador (Jan-June ‘99, Nov‘99 –April‘00, June-Dec’00, June-Oct’01, Dec’02,Feb-May’04,Feb-March’05, June ’07, July ’08, July’09, June ’10), Egypt (Feb’04, Nov’05), Ethiopia (Feb’06,  Sept’06), France (May’98), Kenya (Nov’04), Peru (August ‘01), Spain (May’97, Dec’07, Feb’10), Sri Lanka (March’04), Sudan (July’05), Swiss Alps (July’05), Tanzania (Dec’03), Turkey (August ‘97, July ‘98, June ‘00), USA (San Gabriel Mountains, June ’06), and Vietnam (April’10, April ‘11).

 

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