Charles Le Losq, PhD

I became passionate about volcanology when I was a student at the University of Poitiers in France. I moved at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (France) to study geochemistry, volcanology and igneous processes. I studied how the chemical composition of aluminosilicate magmas affects their viscosity under the supervision of Daniel Neuville (DR1 CNRS-IPGP) during my Master internship and my Ph.D. thesis. Then, to learn more about volatile elements and to expand my experimental knowledge and abilities, I moved to Washington D.C. (U.S.A.) where I had the opportunity to become a PostDoctoral Fellow at the Geophysical Laboratory. In collaboration with Bjorn Mysen (Senior Scientist) and George Cody (Acting Director), I studied how water interacts with the molecular structure of silicate melts. In 2015, I took a position of Research fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University, in Canberra, where I was involved in several collaborative projects with the Petrology group about water, minerals and magmas in the Earth. I moved back to France in 2019, to work as a Maître de Conférences (Assistant Professor) at the IPGP in Paris on various topics linked to volcanism, magmatism, geochemistry and material science. In addition to those themes, I also am interested in computer programming, optimisation and machine learning, and their use to solve problems related to volcanic systems and the Earth.