Yan Lavallée#
| Membership Number: | 4800 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.en.mineralogie.geowissenschaften.uni-muenchen.de/personen/chair/lavallee-yan/index.html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4766-5758 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2022 - Chair of Magmatic Petrology and Volcanology, LMU Munich, Germany
- 2012 - 2022 - Chair of Volcanology and Magmatic Processes, University of Liverpool, UK
- 2008 - 2012 - Akademischer Rat (Assistant Professor), LMU Munich, Germany
- 2004 - 2008 - Research and teaching assistant, LMU Munich, Germany
- 2002 - 2004 - Research and teaching assistant, University of North Dakota, USA
- 1999 - 2001 - Research assistant, McGill University, USA
- 1998 Environmental technician, ALSTOM canada
Fields of Scholarship
- Experimental geomaterials
- Rock physics
- Petrology
- Volcanology
- Magma rheology
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Conferred Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (FAGU)
- 2017 James B. Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union
- 2017 Wager Medal of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior
- 2016 - 2018 Elected Chair of Physical Sciences and Engineering for the Young Academy of Science (YAE)
- 2016 - 2017 Acting Secretary of the Young Academy of Science (YAE)
- 2016 Thermo-Fischer Award of the Volcanology and Magmatic Study Group
- 2016 Associate Professor at Michigan Technological University
- 2014 Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe (FYAE)
- 2012 Starting Grant n Strain Localisation in Magma (SLiM) of the European Research Council (ERC)
- 2009 Finalist to the Deutscher (Körberstiftung) Studienpreis for best science dissertation in Germany
- 2009 Leopold Gélinas Gold Medal in the field of volcanology and igneous petrology in Canada
