Veerle Vanacker
elic | Louvain-la-Neuve
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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).