GMPV
Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology

Anna Theurel

PDRA at Durham University, thriving in life, surviving in academia. She graduated with her PhD from Université Savoie Mont-Blanc in 2024, studying experimentally how gas moves (or fails to move) through magma before it erupts and what consequences that has for the style of eruption. Now at Durham University, her research focuses on cryptic fragmentation and clastic sintering in silicic dome rocks, still through the prism of experimental petrology. Overall, now Anna is just a girl, becoming fluent in the particular chaos of academic life, with her French dog Mister Darcy, and holding her own in the country of weirdos who drive on the left.

Explosive Inside, Effusive Outside: What is it that makes volcanoes erupt the way that they do, and how does that relate to how all ECRs feel inside?

Explosive Inside, Effusive Outside: What is it that makes volcanoes erupt the way that they do, and how does that relate to how all ECRs feel inside?

Let’s get the joke out of the way first, because I made it to myself more than once while finishing this piece: “explosive inside, effusive outside” is a fairly accurate description of the average Early Career Researcher trying to hold it together inside the current state of academia. Calm, composed, professionally cheerful on the surface; …[Read More]