Master Thesis Award

Historical listing of the past laureates

• - 2018, 19.10.2018, ULiège

  The laureate of the Geologica Belgica Master Day for 2018 is Valentine Piroton – ULiège for her thesis presentation on “Recent Landslides Evolution of the Maily-Say Valley in Kyrgyzstan by Differential Radar Interferometry and Optical Images Analysis.” List of master presentations:

  • Benjamin Blykers – UGent : “Characterization of groundwater remediation using nanoparticles of zero-valent iron.”
  • Daphne Guilbert – UGent: “Evaluation of the effect of the urban heat island in Ghent on natural building stones”.
  • Lise Martens – KU Leuven : "Geochemistry of Nummulites as a proxy for Eocene paleotemperature evolution in the Southern North Sea Basin".
  • Aurélie Martin – UMons : “Natural and Artificial Tracers in Unsaturated Zone. Application to Larzac karst”.
  • Valentine Piroton – ULiege : "Recent Landslides Evolution of the Maily-Say Valley in Kyrgyzstan by Differential Radar Interferometry and Optical Images Analysis".
  • Hadrien Pirotte - ULiège: "Experiments on metal-sulphur-silicate melts equilibria under the reducing conditions of Mercury".
  • Flore Van Maldeghem – UGent : “The characterisation of unmelted Antarctic micrometeorites”.

  

• • - 2017, 20.10.2017, KULeuven

    9 participants: Tim De Backer, Laurent Debout, Jef Decuypere, Catherine Demoulin, Michiel Giels, Marieke Paepen, Laurenz Schröer, Matthias Troch, Elise Kazmierczak. Laureate: Michiel Giels, KULeuven, Inorganic Polymers: Do metals in Fe-rich slag precursors jeopardize slag valorization?

  • - 2016, 21 oktober, RBINS

    11 participants: Nachtergaele, Simon; Van Daele, Johanna; Wils, Katleen; Mreyen, Anne-Sophie; Bruneel, Yaana; Verbiest, Michaël; Beersaerts, Glenn; Jentgen, Benjamin; Barbier, Maxime; De Clercq, Shana; Wouters, Sébastien. Laureate: Yanaa Bruneel, KULeuven. Quantification of complex mineral phases using the PONKCS assisted Rietveld refinement.

  • - 2015, 3 november, RBINS

    6 participants: Bram Paredis, Nick Janssens, Michèle Verhaert, Julie De Weirdt, Bastien Soens, Gerben Van Ranst. Laureate: Bastien Soens, (UGent), Petrology and geochemistry of the Crommyonia volcanic rocks north of the Saronic Gulf, Greece.

  • - 2014, 17 october, RBINS

    7 participants: Elise François, Gert Ghysels, Jonas Boons, Marie Heeren, Yohan Cornet, Leonard Dewaele, Thomas Steeman. Laureate (ex aequo): Leonard Dewaele, (UGent), The first perinatal specimen of a saurolophine (Dinosauria, Hadrosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Laureate (ex aequo): Thomas Steeman, (UGent), Chitinozoan and δ13Ccarb biochemostratigraphy of the Silurian “Big Crisis” record in the Long Mountain, Welsh Borderland.

  • - 2013, 4 november 2013, RBINS

    11 participants: Augustin Dekoninck, Nicole Dilissen, Amaël Poulain, Steven Tesseur, Helene Jadot, Jeroen Van Stappen, Nore Praet, Tim Collart, Pauline Lamberty, Aude Cincotta, Alizée Roobaert. Laureate: Nore Praet, (UGent). Study of the Late Paleocene mammal fauna of Cernay (Paris Basin, France).

  • - 2012, 5 october, RBINS

    2 participants: Niels Hulsbosch, Pieter Gurdebeke. Laureate (ex aequo): Niels Hulsbosch, KULeuven. Chemical fractionation of the Nb-Ta-Sn mineralised pegmatites of the Gatumba area (Rwanda). Laureate (ex aequo): Pieter Gurdebeke, UGent. Conchological differentiation in an ongoing radiation of Lanistes gastropods from ancient Lake Malawi: how adaptive is shell morphology?

  • - 2011, 11 october, RBINS

    6 participants: Annelore Blomme, Wesley De Boever, Elien Depelsmaeker, Salvatrice Montalbano, Max Collinet, Thomas Salpeteur. Laureate: Annelore Blomme, KULeuven. Geological study of the Wommersom quartzite.

  • - 2010, 1 october, RBINS.

    5 participants: David De Vleeschouwer, Tom Haerinck, Jorik Van Wielderode, Nicolas Seynaeve, Willem Vandoorne. Laureate: Willem Vandoorne, A study of the tectonic evolution of the Chuya-Kurai zone (Siberian Altai) by means of multi-method chronology.

  • - 2009, 2 october, RBINS.

    11 participants: Laurent Fontaine, Rieko Adriaens, Marijn Boone, Stijn Bos, Geoffrey Cambier, Tim De Kock, Valentin Fisher, Tom Jottier, Bart Rogiers, Koen Vos, Leslie Descamps. Laureate: Stijn Bos, KULeuven, Petrel modeling of a 3D seismic survey for mapping and analysing sandstones in an Upper Carboniferous seal (gas storage site, western Campine, Belgium).

  • - 2008,

    no junior Master day, due to the change from Licence (4 years) to Master (5 years).

  • - 2007, 19 october, Palais des Académies, Brussels.

    6 participants: Dieter Brems, Friso De Clercq, Maite Van Rampelbergh, Stijn Glorie, Julie Dewit, Thomas Verleye. Laureate: Thomas Verleye, UGent, Holocene paleo-environment from the southwest Black Sea: a reconstruction based on dinoflagellate cysts and other palynomorphs.

  • - 2006, 6 october, RBINS.

    6 participants: Ruben Snellings, Kenneth De Baets, Lies De Mol, Jan Hennissen, Robin Campion, Steven Goderis. Laureate: Steven Goderis, Ugent-VUB, Geochemistry and distribution of platinum group elements in the impact structures of Bosumtwi (Ghana, Pleistocene) and Gardnos (Norway, boundary Proterozoic-Paleozoic).

  • - 2005, 7 october, Univ Liège.

    11 participants: Leen Coen, Lieven Machiels, Jasper Moernaut, Caroline de Meyer, Bert Van Bocxlaer, Maarten Haest, Guillaume Orban, Clotilde De Wilde, Hervé Van Baelen, Olivier Namur, Cassian Pirard. Laureate: Maarten Haest, KULeuven: Structural and mineralogical study of a Cu-Ag-mineralisation in the Kundelungu foreland of the Katanga orogen, Dikulushi, Katanga.

  • - 2004, 5 october, VUB.

    7 participants: Florence Deroche, Aline Leblon, Kenneth Mertens, Nicolas Pirotte, Kristof Vlaeminck, Cedric Mabille, Michal Besse. Laureate (ex aequo): Florence Deroche, Ulg, A detailed paleoecological study around the time of the Boreal-Atlantic transition in lithalsa of the « fagne des Deux-Séries » (Hautes-Fagnes, Belgium). Laureate (ex aequo): Kenneth Mertens, UGent, Calcareous nannoplankton and dinoflagellates as environmental proxies in late Quaternary sediments of the Cariaco Basin (ODP site 1002, Venezuela).

  • - 2003, 30 september, ULB.

    8 participants: Ben Dewever, Cécile Havron, Gille Mertens, Davy Depreier, Liesbeth Mariën, Elin Vanlierde, Ruth Beckers, Rozelien De Taeye. Laureate: Ruth Beckers, RUG, Comparison of folds in the Abbaye de Villers and Chevlipont formations (Ordovician), near the Abbey of Villers, Thyle Valley, Brabant Massif.

  • - 2002, 13 december, RBINS.

    5 participants: E. De Man, F. De Vleeschouwer, L. Horckmans, F. Pacquay, A. Foubert. Laureate: Anneleen Foubert, RUG, A high-resolution palaeomagnetic study on Calypso-cores in Porcupine Seabight, SW of Ireland.

  • - 2001, 27 september, VUB

    9 participants (Dominique Similox, Veerle Cnudde, Jan Vanmeirhaeghe, Griet Verhaert, Veerle Vandeginste, Bashar Baharak, Bernard Charlier, Sébastien Bertrand, Siska Valcke). Laureate: Griet Verhaert, KULeuven, Kwartsaders en dubbelzijdige mullions in de Lochkoviaanmetasedimenten in de Hoge-Ardennenleisteengordel (Bertrix).

  • - 2000, 13 december, RBINS

    10 participants (Kudret Sahin, Joëlle Binon, Matsen Broothaers, Valérie Cappuyns, Hervé Van Achter, Thijs Vandenbroucke, Jimmy Van Itterbeeck, Bernard Mottequin, Stijn De Schepper, Marc Humblet). Laureate: Valérie Cappuyns, KULeuven, De speciatie van zware metalen en arseen in gecontamineerde bodems.

  • - 1999, 15 december, RBINS

    3 participants (Anne-Christine Da Silva, An Smeesters, Gilles Van Rompaey). Laureate: Gilles Van Rompaey, ULB, Minéralogie et géochimie de l’altération du cratère de la Fossa, Vulcano, Italie.

  • - 1998, 16 december, RBINS

    10 participants (Alistair Fronhoffs, Michèle Castiaux, Samuel Van Herreweghe, Nicolas Coussaert, Johan De Grave, Michel Bogaerts, Peter Van Roy, Peter De Geest, Wouter Heijlen, Ilse Kenis). Laureate: Ilse Kenis, KULeuven, Structurele en diagenetische studie van de calcietaders in de Givetiaangesteenten te Bettrechies, N-Frankrijk.

  • - 1997, 10 december, RBINS

    7 participants (Julien Harou, Maarten Van Geet, Arnaud Pirson, Nathalie Van Meir, François-Xavier Devuyst, Patrick Degryse, Virginie Renson). Laureate: Patrick Degryse, KULeuven, Facies analysis and geochemistry of the travertine deposits of Başköy, southern Turkey, and implications for climatic changes during the Holocene.

  • - 1996, 11 december, RBINS

    14 participants (Bénédicte Eggermont, Frédéric Hatert, Hans-Balder Havenith, Céline Rentier, David Bellino, Françoise Larangé, Bastien Wauthoz, Tim Debacker, Dimitri Damasceno, Kris Piessens, Cedric Corteel, Boris Dehandschutter, Kristof Callebaut, Kristof Schroyen). Laureate: Hans-Balder Havenith, Univ Liège, Structural analysis on the Egersund-Ogna anorthosite massif, southern Norway: strain associated with diapiric emplacement.

  • - 1995, 13 december, RBINS

    11 participants (Blockmans, Janssen, Van den Driessche, Yans, Rijpens, Eeckhout, Leroi, Terryn, Vanhoof, Courte, Vanbrabant). Laureate: Ines Terryn, RUG, Etude minéralogique et chimique de poterie gallo-romaine et médiévale, provenant de la Belgique, du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg et de l’Allemagne.

  • - 1994, 7 december, RBINS

    15 participants (Baele, Verheyden, Stas, Gobert, Poort, Matton C., Marchand, Verhaeren, Olivier, Claes, Timmerman, Derouane, Hemroulle, Moreau, Misonne). Laureate: An Marchand, KULeuven, Genesis of zebra-dolomites from the Verviers Synclinorium.

  • - 1993, 15 december, RBINS

    10 participants (Van Lancker, Van Bavinckhove, Jardon, Kervyn, Hardy, Mannaerts, Matthijs, Caers, Matton P., Deville). Laureate: Herlinde Mannaerts, KULeuven, Geochemie van hydrothermale ertsafzettingen in het Guaymas bekken.

  • - 1992, 3 december, RBINS

    9 participants (Karine Bolland, H. Dupont, Said El Fadili, David Lagrou, A. Pauquet, S. Philippo, J.M. Savino, J. Subires, S. Warny)

  • - 1991, 5 december, RBINS

    7 participants (Geerkens, Catot, Van Overbeke, Laenen, Van Keer, Jaspar, De Kerckhove)

  • - 1990, 27 november, RBINS

    10 participants (Bertrand, Helsen, Dumoulin, Lombardo, Javaux, Lips, De Craen, Ernst, Nzali, Mergeai)