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Benoît Smets

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Benoît Smets
Department: Aardwetenschappen
Dienst: Natuurlijke risico’s
Functie: Geoloog
Specialiteiten: Remote sensing, GIS, vulkanologische gevaren
Email: benoit.smets@africamuseum.be
Tel.: 32 2 769 5460
Opleiding

2012-2016
PhD in Science - Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)

2006-2007
Natural Risk Management D.E.S. - University of Liège (ULg)

2005-2006
Sciences Agrég. - University of Namur (FUNDP)

2003-2005
Geology MSc. (Licence) - University of Liège (ULg)

2001-2003
Geology BSc. (candidature) - University of Namur (FUNDP)

Loopbaan

Oct. 2020 - Present
- Senior Researcher, Natural Hazards and Cartography Unit, Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium)
- Lecturer, Deptartment of Geography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium)

Apr. 2016 - Sept. 2020
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Natural Hazards and Cartography Unit, Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium)

Jan.-Mar. 2016
- PhD/Postdoctoral Fellow, European Center for Geodynamics and Seismology (Walferdange, Luxembourg)

2012-2015
-PhD Candidate, European Center for Geodynamics and Seismology (Walferdange, Luxembourg), in collaboration with the VUB (Brussels, Belgium) and the RMCA (Tervuren, Belgium)

2007-2011
Junior Scientist, Department of Earth Sciences, RMCA (Tervuren)

Prijzen

2013
FNR Award for Outstanding Promotion of Science to the Public (Luxembourg)

2011
Laureate of the Belgian Foundation for the Vocation

Onderzoek

- Combined use of 2D/3D remote sensing and field surveys to study geohazards in the East African Rift System

- Exploitation of space-, UAV- and ground-based photogrammetry, as well as (In)SAR remote sensing

- Specialist of Nyiragongo and Nyamulagira volcanoes, Virunga Volcanic Province (North Kivu, D.R. Congo)