Studies

* 1994-2000:  Secundary School: Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Presentatie

Address: Plezantstraat 135, 9100 Sint-Niklaas, Belgium

Graduated with 72% in the degree of Sciences and Math’s with 8 hours of math per week.

* 2000-2004: Masters degree at Ghent University, Department of Geology and Soil Science

Address: Geological Institute, Ghent University; Krijgslaan 281 S8 ; 9000 Gent, Belgium

Graduated with 80.9 % (great distinction) as Licentiate/Master in  Geology (option Basin Dynamics)

Study Programme

Dissertation: “A multidisciplinary study of the recent sedimentary processes in the Gollum Channel system to the West of Ireland” 

(Supervised by Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Henriet).

* 2004-2007: Doctoral Degree ongoing at

* University College Cork, Geology Department

Address: Environmental Research Institute, Lee Road, Cork, Ireland

* Cardiff University, School of Earth, Ocean & Planetary Sciences

Address: Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3YE

Aimed to finish thesis by April 2008.

Extra curriculum

* 1997-1999: Spanish classes (Castellano)

* 2003: Classes (3x4 hours) on environmental legislation: soil decontamination decree and surface minerals decree

* November-December 2004: Learning ArcGIS 8, Part I&II, web based course equivalent to 33 course hours

* January 2005: 2 day QTC training session, Dublin, Ireland

* March 2005: 2 day training course on XML (eXtensible Markup Language, the universal format for structured documents and data) at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, UK

* May 2005: 5 day training course on “Bathymetric & Sonar Data Processing with CARIS HIPS & CARIS SIPS” at CARIS BV, Heeswijk, 5473 ZG, The Netherlands

* March 2007: ECOLMAS 5 day training course on “Terrigenous climate signals in deep-marine sediments” at the Centre for Marine Environmental Research, University of Bremen, Germany

Survey experience

* July 14-30 2003: R/V Professor Logachev: Leg 1 of the UNESCO TTR13-cruise from Copenhagen to Tromso on the Research Vessel Professor Logachev. Descriptions were made of sediment cores and side scan data of the Vøring Plateau, the Traenadjupet Slide, Lofoten Basin floor, Andøya Slide and Andøya Canyon with N. Kenyon, M. Ivanov and J.S. Laberg.

* October 16-31 2004: R/V Kommander Jack: Leg 2 of the SEA6 project in the Irish Sea on Research Vessel Kommander Jack to help collect sediment samples, water samples and video imagery.

* May 12-23 2005: R/V Celtic Explorer: Leg within Irish National Seabed Survey as part of a student placement granted by the Marine Institute of Ireland. Initiation to multibeam echosounder data collection and processing was given by a team of experts, with geological interpretations of subbuttom profiling data.

*  June 14-27 2005: R/V Celtic Voyager:  HabMap survey leg1: multibeam echosounder data processing using CARIS HIPS software package.

* August 9-14 2005: R/V Celtic Voyager: JNCC/MESH MBES survey: multibeam echosounder data processing using CARIS HIPS software package.

* September 1-13 2005: R/V Celtic Voyager: IMAGIN MBES survey leg2: multibeam echosounder data processing using CARIS HIPS software package.

* December 14-17 2005: ILV Granuaile: IMAGIN vibrocore sampling cruise. Processing vibrocores on deck.

* September 9-13 2006: R/V Celtic Voyager: Survey “Training and Research in the Eastern Irish Sea (TRES)”. “Bright Sparks” competition by the Marine Institute of Ireland. Five days of ship time and expenses won after submitting a research proposal describing the design, planning and execution of a scientific survey in detail. Proposers: Katrien Van Landeghem & Fionnuala McBreen with Rory O’Donnell, Niamh Walsh, Niamh O’Sullivan, Cora Mckenna, Sandrine Laurand, Jenny Whilde and Andy Wheeler. On board: multibeam echosounder data processing using CARIS HIPS software package, boomer seismic data, video imagery and sediment description.