Dr. Yannick Lara (France) (Cyanobacteria signatures and evolution)
Dr. Marie Catherine Sforna (France) (Metal signature of metabolisms in Proterozoic microfossils)
Dr. Corentin Loron (France) (Early evolution of crown group eukaryotes)
TBA (Life in Archean coastal environments)
PhD students
Jérémie Beghin (Belgium) "Évolution et paléoécologie des eucaryotes au Néoprotérozoïque (bassin de Taoudeni, Mauritanie"
Yohan Cornet (Belgium) « Caractérisation morphologique, ultrastructurale et microchimique des acritarches du précambrien et implications pour l’évolution de la biosphère »
Samuel Domino (France) « Paleobiology of Ediacaran organic-walled microfossils and implications for the evolution of Eukaryotes"
Catherine Demoulin (Belgium) « Biosignatures de cyanobactéries modernes et fossiles ».
Maxime Coutant (France) « 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: V Debaille, 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”
Recent Members
Marcella Giraldo, technician
Dr Blaise Kabamba Baludikay (DRC), PhD student, now Professor at Unikin (University of Kinshasa), DRC
Dr. Camille François (France), postdoc, now Worlwide Geological Map, Paris, & external collaborator
Dr. Dan Asael (Israel), postdoc, now permanent researcher, 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
long-term visiting researchers
Dr. Min Shi (China), postdoc, lecturer, University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China (3.5 months, Janv-April 2018; May-July 2019)
Prof. Stepjko Golubic (Croatia, USA), invited Professor, Boston University, USA (6 mois, oct 2015-march 2016)
Prof. Pavel Medvedev (Russia), invited Professor, Precambrian research center, Petrozavodsk, Russia (12 months, 2011)
