January 02, 2018
The Smerdon PaleoDynamics Lab is happy to welcome Dr. Gijs De Cort as a new member. Gijs joins us as Belgian American Educational Foundation postdoctoral fellow. His work focuses on reconstructing past hydroclimate changes in Africa, mainly based on evidence from lake deposits and focusing on multiple time scales throughout the Holocene. He is originally from Belgium, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Geology from Ghent University in June 2016. Prior to joining our lab, Gijs worked at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium) and was a visiting researcher at the University of Reading (UK).