Yan Lavallé receives the Leopold Gélinas Medal in Gold

Dr. Yan Lavallée has been awarded the Leopold Gélinas Medal in Gold by the Geological Association of Canada. The award is for his groundbreaking studies of the rheology and ductile-brittle transition of lavas in volcanic eruptions. It is awarded on the basis of his doctoral thesis which he successfully defended in the Faculty of Geosciences of the LMU Munich. That thesis resulted in several papers in top international journals including Nature and Geology. His work was performed in the research group of Prof. Dingwell, LMUexcellent Research Professor in Experimental Volcanology. Dr. Lavallée is presently a scientific investigator in the Section of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemstry of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at LMU Munich.

Dr. Lavallée will receive his medal in Toronto in May.