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Personal profile
Expertise
Dr. Philippe Claeys is a geologist, planetary scientist, geochemist interested in documenting global changes and in particular the consequences of asteroid and comet impacts on the evolution of the bio-geosphere. He obtained his PhD in 1993 from the University of California at Davis working on the discovery of the Chicxulub crater in Yucatan, the most likely cause of the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago. He then carried out postdoctoral research at UCLA, before becoming a researcher at UC Berkeley for several years. In the late nineties, he joined the Museum of Natural History in Berlin as chief scientist in charge of establishing and managing the new analytical laboratories. Since 2001, he is a professor at the “Vrije Universiteit Brussel” in Brussels, Belgium, where he currently heads the research unit Analytical-Environmental and Geochemistry. He is also a visiting professor at Ghent University, the Catholic University Leuven and the University of Liège. In 2016-2017 he was a visiting professor and International Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia. When he is not travelling looking for clues to better understand the 4.5 billion years of evolution of planet Earth, he enjoys working in the lab with PhD students and postdocs on a wide variety of projects ranging from Antarctic meteorites, to paleoclimate, or archaeometry and urban water management.
Website: https://amgc.research.vub.be/en/prof-dr-philippe-claeys
- Planetary science, impact processes, meteorites
- Paleo-environmental reconstruction, paleoclimate, mass extinctions
- Geochemistry isotopes and trace elements - Biogeochemistry
- Sedimentology, stratigraphy
- Cyclostratrigraphy - Astrochronoloy
- Astrobiology, exobiology
- Urban Water management
- Geoarcheology - Bioarchaeology
- Analytical methodology
Education/Academic qualification
Geology, PhD , University of California at Davis
1 Jan 1989 → 15 Mar 1993
Award Date: 15 Mar 1993
Geology, Master of Science in Geology, University of California at Davis
1 Aug 1987 → 31 Dec 1988
Award Date: 31 Dec 1988
Geology, Bachelor degree in Geology, Free Universities of Brussels
… → 1984
Award Date: 30 Sep 1984
External positions
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies International Scholar & Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia
1 Sep 2016 → 31 Dec 2017Professor, Ghent University
1 Jan 2009 → 31 Dec 2026Professor, KU Leuven
1 Jan 2009 → 30 Sep 2021Professor, University of Liege
1 Jan 2008 → 31 Dec 2021Lecturer, University of Potsdam
1 Sep 1997 → 31 Jan 2001Senior Scientist, Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
1 Jan 1996 → 31 Jan 2001Research Scientist, University of California at Berkeley
1 Jan 1994 → 31 Dec 1995Post-doctoral researcher, University of California at Los Angeles
1 Jan 1993 → 31 Dec 1993Fingerprint
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Network
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OZR4023: Bilateral cooperation within the framework of a joint doctoral project: benchfee for joint PhD VUB - URT (Italy), ARRIGA Giorgio
28/08/22 → 27/08/26
Project: Fundamental
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HERC55: Shooting stars and blasting dinosaurs: boosting ICP-MS capabilities across various research domains.
Goderis, S., Olde Venterink, H., Tielens, F., Snoeck, C., Terryn, H., Nys, K., Leermakers, M., Claeys, P., Elskens, M., Kervyn De Meerendre, M., Lambert, B., Peeters, E., Hauffman, T., Rahier, H., Gao, Y., Meulebroeck, W. & Wouters, B.
1/05/22 → 30/04/26
Project: Fundamental
Research output
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A continuous, centennial-scale lake record from southern Iberia captures fluctuations in effective moisture and temperature throughout the EemianMarta
Doyle, R., Marchegiano, M., Peral, M., Goderis, S., García-Alix, A., Jiménez-Moreno, G., Camuera, J., López-Avilés, A. & Claeys, P., 26 Feb 2023, EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2023 ed. European Geosciences Union (EGU), p. 1-1 1 p. 17339Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Meeting abstract (Book)
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Dansgaard-Oeschger climate oscillation during the early MIS3 in Europe: evidence from a multi proxy (bulk & clumped stable isotopes and trace elements) speleothem record in Han-sur-Lesse, Belgium
Peral, M., Marchegiano, M., Verheyden, S., Goderis, S., Helden, T. V., Vanhaecke, F., Acker, T. V., Xuexue, J., Cheng, H. & Claeys, P., 25 Feb 2023, EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2023 ed. European Geosciences Union (EGU), p. 1-1 1 p. 8094Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Meeting abstract (Book)
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Encyclopedia of Astrobiology
Gargaud, M., Irvine, W. M., Amils, R., Claeys, P., Cleaves, H. J., Guerin, M., Rouan, D., Spohn, T., Tirard, S. & Viso, M., 2023, 2023 ed. Berlin, Germany: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. 1853 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research
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Geochemical records of environmental change in the central Western Interior Seaway during the Cenomanian–Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE 2)
Percival, L., van Helmond, N., Plint, G., Papadomanolaki, N., Goderis, S. & Claeys, P., 2023, EGUSphere. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 8959Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Meeting abstract (Book)
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Holocene hydroclimate variability along the Southern Patagonian margin (Chile) reconstructed from Cueva Chica speleothems
Nehme, C., Todisco, D., Breitenbach, S. F. M., Couchoud, I., Marchegiano, M., Peral, M., Vonhof, H., Hellstrom, J., Tjallingii, R., Claeys, P., Borrero, L. & Martin, F., Mar 2023, In: Global and Planetary Change. 222, p. 1-1 1 p., 104050.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Datasets
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Data For: Quantitative elemental mapping of chondritic meteorites using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-time of flight-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-TOF-MS)
Maeda, R. (Creator), Goderis, S. (Creator) & Claeys, P. (Creator), Zenodo, 2023
DOI: https://zenodo.org/record/7560557#.Y85hZOzML0o
Dataset
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Datasets for "Unexplored Antarctic meteorite collection sites revealed through machine learning"
Tollenaar, V. (Creator), Zekollari, H. (Creator), Stef, L. (Creator), Debaille, V. (Creator), M.J., T. D. (Creator), Goderis, S. (Creator), Claeys, P. (Creator) & Frank, P. (Creator), Zenodo, 2 Dec 2021
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5749752, https://zenodo.org/record/5749753#.Y8v7M-zMI-Q
Dataset
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The giant marine gastropod Campanile giganteum (Lamarck, 1804) as a high-resolution archive of seasonality in the Eocene greenhouse world
De Winter, N. (Creator), Vellekoop, J. (Creator) & Claeys, P. (Creator), Zenodo, 2020
Dataset
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Supplementary Information for "Temperature dependence of clumped isotopes (∆47) in aragonite"
De Winter, N. (Creator) & Claeys, P. (Supervisor), Zenodo, 2022
Dataset
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Supplement to: "ShellChron: A new tool for constructing chronologies in accretionary carbonate archives from stable oxygen isotope profiles" by Niels J. de Winter
De Winter, N. (Creator) & Claeys, P. (Supervisor), Zenodo, 2021
Dataset
Prizes
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Bone Diagenesis 2021 conference - Best student poster
Spros, Rachèl (Recipient), Kaskes, Pim (Recipient), Snoeck, Christophe (Recipient), Goderis, Steven (Recipient), Lambert, Bart (Recipient) & Claeys, Philippe (Recipient), 24 Sep 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America 2012
Claeys, Philippe (Recipient), 5 Nov 2012
Prize: Election to learned society
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Elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America in 2012
Claeys, Philippe (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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International Scholar Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia, BC Canada
Claeys, Philippe (Recipient), 1 Sep 2016
Prize: National/international honour
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John Joly 2018 Lecture at Trinity College Dublin
Claeys, Philippe (Recipient), 2018
Prize: National/international honour
Activities
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Melanie During
Philippe Claeys (Host) & Steven Goderis (Host)
4 Jan 2023 → 15 Jan 2023Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
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Invited Lecture: L'impact de l'impact: Résultats récents concernant l 'extinction des dinosaures sur base du forage de Chicxulub given at "Meteorite Exhibition of the Attarik foundation" Casablanca, Morocco
Philippe Claeys (Speaker)
26 Nov 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk at a public lecture/debate
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Ruolin Wu
Philippe Claeys (Host) & Naihua Xue (Supervisor)
1 Aug 2022 → 10 Aug 2022Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
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Weronika Maria Wierny
Philippe Claeys (Host), Marion Peral (Supervisor) & Marta Marchegiano (Supervisor)
1 Apr 2022 → 31 May 2022Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
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Element mapping by µXRF in several morphotype of Lower Cretaceous coprolites from the French locality of Angeac.
Kevin Rey (Speaker), Ninon Robin (Contributor), Pim Kaskes (Contributor), Lee Rozada (Contributor), Jean-Marc Baele (Contributor) & Philippe Claeys (Speaker)
7 Nov 2022 → 11 Nov 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
Press/Media
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Mission in Antarctica: discovery of a 7.6 kg meteorite
Ryoga Maeda, Vinciane Debaille, Steven Goderis, Philippe Claeys, Vinciane Debaille, Vinciane Debaille & Maria Valdes
18/01/23 → 19/01/23
6 Media contributions
Press/Media: Research
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An ancient group of Hong Kong inhabitants loved their seafood, to an extreme
Christina Cheung, Christophe Snoeck & Philippe Claeys
4/04/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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International media coverage of publication on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to find meteorites in Antarctica
Philippe Claeys & Steven Goderis
26/01/22 → 28/01/22
10 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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La Dernière Heure, VRT-NEWS, RTBF, Les Échos, Bruzz, Daily Science etc. highlighted our SUBLIMUS project
Natacha Brion, Philippe Claeys & Marc Elskens
24/10/19 → 16/08/21
15 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Press coverage of article: Vestiges of a Volcanic Arc Hidden Within Chicxulub Crater
Sietze Jan De Graaff, Philippe Claeys & Steven Goderis
15/06/21
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research