The Doornbos Memorial Prize is presented to a young scientist by the Committee on Studies of the Earth’s Deep Interior (SEDI) of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), in association with their biennial meetings, for outstanding work on the Earth’s deep interior. It is given in honor of the Dutch seismologist, Durk Doornbos.
And this year’s awardee is … former TIMEleSS post-doc John Keith Magali ! John was awarded the prize for his multidisciplinary and original approach combining dynamics and mineral physics to understand and predict seismic structures, in particular near subduction zones.
This prize arises specifically from the work John Keith Magali started during his PhD in Lyon and his following post-doc with TIMEleSS on how to integrate high-pressure experiment results with geodynamical models and compare the model predictions with seismic observations. This is a nice conclusion to the project, 8 years after it started !
Congratulations John !
On June 6, 2024, Federic Rochira defended her thesis! She presented her work for 30 minutes, followed by 60 minutes of oral examination, in front of an international committee composed of Tine Thomas as first examiner, Sebastian Rost (University of Leeds) as second examiner, and Alexander Kappes (University of Münster) as third examiner.
Jeffrey Gay is a PhD student in the Earth and Planetary Materials group at the Université de Lille since October 2018.
Estelle Ledoux is a PhD student in the Earth and Planetary Materials group at the Université de Lille since May 2018.
Federica Rochira is a PhD student in the seismology group at WWU Münster since March 2018.
Matthias Krug is a PhD student in the mineralogy group at WWU Münster since April 2018.