Brief bio

I studied for a bachelor and and a master degree in Earth Sciences at University of Geneva (1992), where I also trained for a Postgraduate Certificate in Analysis and Management of Geological Risk (CERG, 1993). I engaged in an internationally co-supervised PhD that was partly funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and I hold a PhD diploma from University of Clermont-Ferrand (F) and University of Geneva (CH). My PhD thesis (1999) was on modelling the growth of volcanic edifices and was supervised by Profs Jean-François Lénat, Ariel Provost and Jean-Jacques Wagner.
After my PhD, I worked for a few months at University of Geneva researching on the impact of volcanic eruptions, before obtaining a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (2000) and moving to University of Bristol to work with Steve Sparks in the Volcanology Group. As a postdoctoral researcher in Bristol, I focused on the genesis of intermediate and silicic melts. From 2003 to 2009, I worked again at University of Geneva as a "Maître assistante". I returned to the University of Bristol in 2009 as a research fellow to work on crustal magma chambers.
Since 2018, I am funded by the European program Horizon 2020 to work at the Institute of Earth Science, Université Savoie-Mont Blanc, and model volatile exsolution and geophysical signals associated with growing magmatic systems.