Members
Lab Director
- Emmanuelle Javaux, full professor
Technician
- Alexandre Lambion
Postdocs
- Dr. Brooke Johnson (Oxford UK) (Life in Archean coastal environments)-NFSR PDR postdoc
- Dr. Yannick Lara (France) (Cyanobacteria signatures and evolution)-BELSPO BRAIN co-PI
- Dr. Marie Catherine Sforna (France) (Metal signature of metabolisms in Proterozoic microfossils)-EOS postdoc
- Dr. Corentin Loron (France) (Early evolution of crown group eukaryotes)-NFSR postdoc/now Newton fellow at University of Edinburgh
PhD students
- Jérémie Beghin (Belgium)
"Évolution et paléoécologie des eucaryotes au Néoprotérozoïque (bassin de Taoudeni, Mauritanie" - Catherine Demoulin (Belgium)
« Biosignatures de cyanobactéries modernes et fossiles ». - Maxime Coutant (France) (pomotor: E Javaux, co-promotor: K Lepot-co-tutelle ULille)
« Testing the biogenicity of putative organic microfossils from the Archean era with nano-petrography and microscale chemical analysis » - Nora Wasserman (Germany) (co-promotor: E Javaux, promotor: N Mattielli, ULB) "Geochemistry of paleoenvironments before and after major Proterozoic geological events and implications for habitability and the biosphere"
- Lucas Demaret (Belgium), (co-promotor : E. Javaux, promotor : G. Eppe-Molsys)
« Detectability of organic molecules in solid mineral solution by Raman spectroscopy in preparation for space missions”
MSc students
- Arnaud Vansteenkiste (Belgium), "characterizing biosignatures in preparation for Exomars"
Recent Members
- Marcella Giraldo, technician
- Yohan Cornet (Belgium), PhD student,
« Caractérisation morphologique, ultrastructurale et microchimique des acritarches du précambrien et implications pour l’évolution de la biosphère » - Samuel Domino (France), MSc student
« Paleobiology of Ediacaran organic-walled microfossils and implications for the evolution of Eukaryotes" - Vincent Calers (Belgium), MSc student, now officer in Belgian Army
- Dr Blaise Kabamba Baludikay (DRC), PhD student, now Professor at Unikin (University of Kinshasa), DRC
- Dr. Camille François (France), postdoc, now executive director, Worlwide Geological Map, Paris
- Dr. Dan Asael (Israel), postdoc, now permanent researcher, lab manager, Univ. Yale, USA
- Dr. Luc Cornet (Belgique), PhD student, (co-promotor : E. Javaux, promotor : D. Baurain-InBios), now postdoc ULiège Agro-Biotech
- Dr. Kevin Lepot (France), postdoc, now Maître de conférence, U Lille 1, France
- Dr. Jean-Yves Storme (Belgiuque), postdoc, now « maitre de conférence » UNamur & Belgian federal institution agent
long-term visiting researchers
- Dr. Min Shi (China), postdoc (Janv-April 2018; May-July 2019), now professor, University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
- Prof. Stepjko Golubic (Croatia, USA), invited Professor (6 mois, oct 2015-march 2016), professor Boston University, USA
- Prof. Pavel Medvedev (Russia), invited Professor, (12 months, 2011), Precambrian research center, Petrozavodsk, Russia