Veleda Muller's Biography
I started the bachelor in Geology in 2011 in the Federal University of Parana, Brazil, driven by love for nature and mountains.
I do research since the first years of my bachelor, working with petrology, geochemistry, and structural geology of the Precambrian Southern Ribeira Belt.
I did an exchange in the University of Salamanca, Spain, funded by the "Science without borders" brazilian scholarship, and I explored the European Alpine and Variscan orogenic belts.
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During my master's, I lived the dream of studying the Patagonian Andes. I did one field trip by boat in the Pacific fjords of austral Patagonia funded by CONYCET, Chile. I studied how the backarc Rocas Verdes Basin was converted into the Magallanes Fold-and-thrust Belt, and published my first paper in Tectonophysics.
I did other two field trips to the Torres del Paine National Park, Chile, to study the carbonatic rocks of Lake Sarmiento and Laguna Amarga, funded by the Project Microbial from LAMIR/PETROBRAS.
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I started my PhD in 2019 in the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, about tectonic and climate interactions on mountain building, having the Patagonian Andes as my main study region. In Milan I learned geodynamic numerical modeling applied to the study of tectonics, erosion, mantle dynamics, and volcanism, which resulted in the papers in Scientific Reports and Solid Earth. I stayed one year in the University of Grenoble-Alps, France, funded by the Erasmus+ program, where I worked with low-temperature thermochronology data from the Fitz Roy and Torres del Paine Massifs, now published in Tectonics.
I also participated in collaborative research about the Alps, and I published a paper with the TOPO-EUROPE community about deep Earth and climate interactions and their societal impacts (Cloetingh et al., 2023).
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​Now in my postdoc in the University of Arizona, USA, I am working in the TANGO project to study the mechanisms of crustal thickening and topographic growth of the Andes using Geodynamic numerical modeling. I recently did a field trip to the Central Andes to study the orographic barrier and the fold-and-thrust belts of the Eastern Central Andes, collecting data for low-temperature thermochronology.
Recently, I've been interested in Biogeosciences and the topographic control on biodiversity, and I am part of the EUROBIG Cost Action to diffuse knowledge about Biogeosciences.
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In the next steps of my carrer, I aim to integrate field-work, geo-thermochronology, and modeling to study other mountain belts of the world, and the tectonic, climate, and biological interactions in those environments.
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