Team
Researchers and Research Assistants
N. Cañellas – Boltà
A. Geyer is an expert on analogue and numerical models of volcanic processes with special interest on collapse caldera processes. She created the CCDB (Collapse Caldera DataBase) (http://www.gvb-csic.es/CCDB.htm) and i currently working on the historic volcanism of Deception island caldera and the evaluation of its volcanic hazard.
S. Giralt is an expert in climatic reconstructions based on multidisciplinary studies of high temporal resolution marine and lake sediment cores. He has participated in various Antarctic campaigns focused on the extraction of sediment cores of Livingston Island lakes and of the sea-flooded caldera of Deception Island.
J. Ibañez is a Materials Scientist specialized in using different analytical tools like X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), Raman spectroscopy or optical techniques (hyperspectral imaging) in order to (i) characterize the mineralogy and geochemistry of Earth and planetary materials and (ii) to investigate the fundamental properties (structural, vibrational, optical), both at ambient conditions and as a function of pressure, of minerals and advanced materials. He is currently the Scientific Director of GEO3BCN’s X-ray Diffraction Laboratory, which offers support to GEO3BCN researchers and also to external users from public and private universities and companies worldwide.
A. Lobo is an expert on the analysis of remotely sensed imagery, both from satellite and from UAVs. Besides standard multi-temporal and multi-spectral imagery, he has experience on the analysis of satellite hyperspectral imagery and on acquiring and analysing spectra from UAVs.
E. Montoya is a Neotropical palaeoecologist, that is, interested in studying long-term vegetation dynamics in megadiverse regions such as northern South America. Her main interests are related to the relationships between vegetation, humans, and environmental drives (climate, hydrology, volcanic activity). She analyses these relationships through the study of different remains preserved in sedimentary archives, including pollen grains, fungal spores, charcoal particles and many more.
R. Oliva is a Material Scientist whose focus of research is the study of optical, structural and vibrational properties of minerals and advanced crystalline materials under different thermodynamic conditions; from high temperature down to 4.2 K and hydrostatic pressures up to 80 GPa, corresponding to Earth’s lower mantle. To that end, he acquired expertise in the use of several spectroscopic techniques, including Raman spectroscopy, Brillouin spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopies such as FTIR, modulated spectroscopies such as photoreflectivity, photoluminescence as well as x-ray diffraction measurements.
D. Pedrazzi Geology, volcanology, stratigraphy and mapping of volcanic areas, hazard assessment, monogenetic and polygenetic volcanism. Currently working on the post-caldera volcanism of Deception Island (Antarctica), llopango Caldera (El Salvador) Azores Archipelago (Portugal) and the Catalan Pyrenees.
M.C. Trapote
PhD students
O. Dorado is a predoctoral researcher working on a PhD about Teide Volcano at the Geoscience Barcelona research institute (GEO3BCN-CSIC) with the funding of a FPU Predoctoral Contract from the Spanish Ministry of Science under the supervision of Joan Martí Molist and Adelina Geyer Traver. Her work is focused in field work, petrology and geochemistry research and their application in modelling the Teide-Pico Viejo active volcanic system.
M. López is a geologist and environmental scientist specialised in geological hazards. She has worked in volcanic and environmental monitoring on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands), and in geotechnics in Catalonia (Spain). She is currently developing her PhD thesis at GEO3BCN – CSIC, focused on multi-hazard assessment and risk management in volcanic islands. Her work consists of analysing the integration of the multi-hazard perspective into national and international Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) policies, as well as conducting long- term multi-hazard assessments and risk management analysis of extreme and non-extreme events, especially for Tenerife as a case study.