Sanne de Baar
2025-Present MSc project: “A global plate reconstruction with self-closing plate polygons and deforming plate margins” Collaborators: Douwe van Hinsbergen, Lydian Boschman Publications Outreach Fieldwork
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Nikita Bekhterev
2025-Present MSc project: “Mesozoic back-arc basin evolution of South China and Japan” Collaborators: Douwe van Hinsbergen, Lydian Boschman Publications Outreach Fieldwork
Continue reading →Dr. Roi Granot
2025 Visiting scientist. Roi is a friend and a specialist in marine magnetics, with whom I have worked on plate tectonic reconstructions for years. Roi visited us for several months during a sabbatical in the spring of 2025. Publications Outreach … Continue reading →
Saja Almulhim
2025-Present MSc project: “Style of accretionary orogenesis in the Arabian-Nubian shield” Collaborators: Douwe van Hinsbergen, Ben Mayor Publications Outreach Fieldwork
Continue reading →Anouk Rinia
2025-Present MSc project: “Orogenic architecture and plate boundary evolution of the Scottish and Irish Caledonides Collaborators: Douwe van Hinsbergen, Ben Mayor Publications Outreach Fieldwork
Continue reading →Ruiyang Chai
2024-Present Visiting PhD student: “Paleomagnetism of the Permo-Triassic of the Qilian Basin, China” Ruiyang is a PhD student at Northwest University in Xi’an, China, who visited us as an exchange student in the fall of 2024. His work focuses on … Continue reading →
Stijn Groenheide
2024-Present MSc project: “Barrovian metamorphism following delamination: a quantitative analysis” Supervisors: Douwe van Hinsbergen, Alissa Kotowski Publications Outreach Fieldwork
Continue reading →Ben Mayor
2024-Present PhD project: “Metamorphism, rheological switches, and subduction evolution” Supervisors: Alissa Kotowski, Douwe van Hinsbergen Publications Outreach Fieldwork
Continue reading →Dr. Erik van der Wiel
2019-2024 PhD project: “Towards reconciling geodynamic models with kinematic reconstructions of slab sinking and plate motion” (Vici project ‘TRIGGER’) – supervised by Douwe van Hinsbergen, Cedric Thieulot, Wim Spakman MSc project: “Paleolatitudinal evolution of the Farallon plate based on paleomagnetic … Continue reading →
Dr. Qiang Fu
2024-Present Qiang is a Post-doc at Utrecht University and studies the tectonic history of the eastern Tibetan Plateau using paleomagnetism and other geophysical techniques. He joined the 2024 crew of CSC visitors who had fun discussing the evolution of the … Continue reading →