Biography

Veerle Vanacker is researcher at the Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) and professor in physical geography at UCL. Her PhD in Geomorphology from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven focused at spatial modelling of the human impact on geomorphic processes in mountain areas. She gained experience in land cover change analysis and remote sensing during her postdoctoral research at the Laboratory for Remote Sensing at UCL. Being a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Hannover (Germany), she further specialized in quantitative understanding of landscape processes and evolution using in-situ produced cosmogenic nuclides, and was trained in geochemistry and accelerated mass spectrometry at the University of Hannover and ETH-Zurich. In 2006, she was visiting scientist at Dartmouth College, NH. She contributes to several international research projects, and is currently involved in the UNESCO FRIEND/NILE project.