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Céline Marie Vidal, PhD

Director of Studies and Lecturer of Geography at Fitzwilliam College

Céline Marie is a volcanologist, yoga teacher, artist and menstruality mentor at RedSchool UK. Her research uses a forensic approach to reconstruct large eruptions of the past that impacted climate and civilisations. She combines physical volcanology, magma and tephra geochemistry with climate and archaeological archives to identify volcanoes that produced explosive eruptions only known from distal records. Her current research focuses on building a tephrostratigraphy lattice of the Ethiopian and Turkana Rift, using tephra to link paleoanthropological and archaeological sites with the volcanological record. Céline Marie’s current project, Voice of Earth, combines scientific measurements, art, indigenous knowledge and shamanism to record, translate and share the voice of the Earth.

Biography

Career

  • Since 2021: Lecturer of Geography, Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, UK
  • 2019-2021: Marie Skłodowska Curie research associate, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK
  • 2016-2018: Leverhulme research associate, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK
  • 2015-2016: Teaching fellow, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris – Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, France
  • 2012-2016: PhD student, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris – Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, France

Qualifications

  • Honorary BA, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Redschool Menstruality Mentor Certificate, RedSchool, UK.
  • Hatha Yoga and Meditation Teacher Certificate, International Vasishta Yoga Research Foundation, India
  • PhD Earth and Environmental Sciences (hons), Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris – Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, France
  • Certificate of Scientific Mediation and Journalism, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, France
  • MSc Geology and Natural Hazards (hons), double MSc degree at the Universitat de Barcelona – Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
  • MSc Chemistry, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille, France
  • BSc Chemistry, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille, France

Publications

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Teaching

  • Part IA ‘The Earth’
  • MPhil Holocene Climates ‘Volcanic eruptions and little ice ages’ and ‘Forensic Volcanology’
  • Supervisions: Part IA ‘The Earth’, Atmospheric Processes and Climate, Environmental Change during the Quaternary’, Part II ‘Volcanology’

External activities