Céline-Marie Vidal

I am a volcanologist, artist, Yoga teacher and women’s mentor. I work as CNRS Junior Professor Chair at CEREGE. My research uses a forensic approach to reconstruct large eruptions of the past that impacted climate and civilisations. I combine physical volcanology, tephra geochemistry with climate and archaeological archives to identify volcanoes that produced eruptions that are only known from their footprint in distal records. My 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. I also investigate how to develop novel scientific approaches that integrate indigenous knowledge, which can apply to volcanological research.