Unit of Earth Sciences
Department of Geosciences | University of Fribourg
PROF. Anneleen foubert
Phone: +41 26 300 89 78 | Fax: +41 26 300 97 65
E-mail: anneleen.foubert(at)unifr.ch
Office: 2.305
Teaching: Sedimentology, Methods in Sedimentology, Earth History, Cool-water carbonates
Research: Carbonate sedimentology - Carbonate mounds and cold-water coral
ecosystems through space and time - Microbial carbonate systems in extreme
environments - Depositional, diagenetic and microbial controls on the 3D
distribution and evolution of porosity and permeability in carbonate systems
Fonction: Professor
Publication: Download complete publication list of Anneleen Foubert: Foubert1
Personal Info:
Geo-biosphere interactions are one of the most fascinating
processes active within the system ‘Earth’.
Especially the carbonate sedimentary record witnesses the complex
interplay between the Geosphere and the Biosphere. Studying frontier carbonate
systems is therefore my main research axis with a major emphasis on the comprehension
of the evolution of carbonate mound systems through space and time.
The
thorough understanding of microbial-induced early diagenesis and the impact of
diagenesis on the dynamic petrophysical behavior (porosity and permeability) in
carbonate systems (through space and time) is hereby an additional crucial
aspect.
Through the active organization of fieldwork on land (e.g. Italy,
Spain, Turkey, Morocco, US, Spitzbergen,…) or at sea (from the Norwegian
margins to the North-African margins) and through international drilling
campaigns (IODP – ICDP), one could decipher step by step the secrets of the
carbonate world.
Education and Training
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MSc
in Geology – Basin Dynamics and Marine Geology, Ghent University, Belgium
(2002)
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Ph.D.
in Sciences – Geology, Ghent University, Belgium (2007)
Professional experience
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Research
assistant (BOF-GOA ‘Porcupine Belgica’) - Renard Centre of Marine Geology,
Ghent University, Belgium (2002-2003)
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PhD
research grant FWO (Aspirant - Research Foundation Flanders) -
Renard Centre of
Marine Geology, Ghent University, Belgium (2003-2007)
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Carbonate
Sedimentologist TOTAL S.A. – CSTJF
(Centre Scientifique et Technique Jean
Feger), Pau, France (2007-2008)
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Doctor-assistant
+ research grant FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) –
Department of Earth and
Environmental Sciences, K.U. Leuven, Belgium (2008-2012)
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Mobility
grant FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) – GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany (2012-2013)
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Invited
Professor – Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA (2012)
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Associate
Professor in Carbonate Sedimentology –
Department of Geosciences, University of
Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland (from February 2013 on)
