PD Dr. Corrado Cimarelli
Corrado Cimarelli is the leader of the volcanic lightning team (the VoLT) at the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at LMU in Munich and PI of the ERC project “VOLTA”. He got his PhD in 2006 from the Università degli Studi Roma Tre (Italy), studying the evolution of the Panarea volcanic complex, in the Eolian Islands. He has been a Royal Society-Accademia dei Lincei Research Associate at the School of Earth Sciences of the University of Bristol (UK). He joined the LMU in 2009, first as a Marie Curie Fellow, and since 2013, as assistant professor. Beside studying volcanic electrification processes, his research revolves around explosive volcanism and tephra studies, volcano stratigraphy, magma rheology and volcanic conduit dynamics. Find him in the lab or on active volcanoes.
Dr. Damien Gaudin
Dr. Ulrich Küppers
Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses (5SWS); lab (co-)responsible for rock preparation, petrophysics and magma fragmentation; perform field work; student field trips;
Research Interest:
Explosive volcanism; Generation and impact of volcanic ash; Quantitative observation of explosive eruptions; Scaled laboratory experiments, Submarine volcanism, Transport and sedimentation of pyroclastic density currents
Dr. Valeria Cigala
Integrated shock-tube experiments, high speed imaging and textural characterization of pyroclasts
Dr. Markus Schmid
Markus Schmid is a Postdoc at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. His research focuses on the relationship between vent geometry and eruption dynamics in order to establish a link between observable eruption parameters to the driving forces in the shallow plumbing system. To investigate this, he uses a combination of UAV photogrammetry, field observations and laboratory experiments. He is also involved in the development of multi parametric sensors that can be deployed by UAVs close to active volcanic vents. To characterise volcanic explosions in the field he uses high-speed and thermal cameras, aerial footage as well as pressure and acoustic signals.
Dr. Caron Vossen
Caron Vossen, born in the Netherlands, is a PhD student at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. She is exploring the conditions for the occurrence of volcanic lightning by carrying out field measurements at active volcanoes using a thunderstorm detector. In order to understand the electrical activity generated by a variety of volcanic eruption styles and magnitudes, she is studying the electrical signals generated by explosions on Sakurajima (Japan), Stromboli and Etna (Italy) and during the 2021 Cumbre Vieja eruption on La Palma (Spain) using a volcanic lightning detection algorithm developed in Python.
Dr. Francisco Cáceres
Response of volatile-bearing silicic magma to different decompression regimes. Transitions from ‘nothing’ to minor nucleation, to explosive foaming and fragmentation.
Isabella Haarer, B. Sc.
Isabella Haarer, is an undergraduate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. Back in 2009 she climbed up her first volcano (Gunung Agung) on Bali, Indonesia where her fascination with volcanoes awoke in her.
In her current studies she wants to understand the mechanisms of volcanic eruptions (especially explosive eruptions) and the phenomena associated with them. Her interests lie in: Physical and experimental volcanology, shock tube experiments with volcanic lightning and measuring volcanic discharges.
Woife Stoiber, B. Sc.
He got is eduaction and training as a media designer and professional photographer in 2003. Since then he traveled all over the world to catch the most beautiful moments on earth. Back in 2014 he shot his very first active Volcano. The Stromboli in Italy! Volcanoes have fascinated him ever since and gave him the reason to start studying Geosciences.
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