The next RED School will be March 15-21, 2026
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Here’s the team of teachers in charge of this year’s courses, with whom you’ll have the opportunity to interact
Isotope geochemistry, cosmochemistry, meteoritics, Archean, planetary differentiation
Vinciane Debaille is a Research Director at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) and a professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Her research employs isotope geochemistry as a primary tool to investigate processes that governed the formation and differentiation of planetary bodies. By analyzing isotopic systems preserved in meteorites and ancient terrestrial samples, she contributes to our understanding of the formation of the solar system and the evolution of asteroids and rocky planets. In addition to her laboratory research, she has participated in five Antarctic expeditions to collect meteorites in this unique natural environment to expand the available sample collection for scientific study. She is also interested in the curation of those precious extraterrestrial samples. She was selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as one of five European scientists to serve as a Return Sample Scientist for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, which is designed to return Martian samples to Earth for detailed geochemical and isotopic characterization.