Violaine Coulon is a PhD student supervised by Pr. Frank Pattyn at the Laboratoire de Glaciologie of ULB, Brussels. Her field of interest is paleo-modelling of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.

During her Master thesis, she investigated the Antarctic contribution to Meltwater Pulse 1A with the Elementary Thermomecanically-coupled ice sheet model f.ETISh. In October 2017, she started a PhD (with a FNRS scholarship) concerning the Antarctic Ice Sheet stability for the past 1.5 million years, which will be studied using a numerical ice sheet model calibrated to geologic data. At the moment, she’s specifically focusing on the interaction of the ice sheet with the Solid Earth through isostatic rebound and its influence on Antarctic behaviour during the last deglaciation by developing an adaptation to the simple Elastic-Lithiosphere/Relaxed Astenosphere approach.