 Earth and Life Institute
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Sophie Opfergelt
FNRS Postdoctoral Researcher
Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)
Earth and Life Institute (ELI)
Environmental Sciences (ELIE)
Address: Place croix du Sud, 2/10
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
e-mail: sophie.opfergelt@uclouvain.be
Phone: +32 10 47 36 38
Fax: +32 10 47 45 25
Web: www.uclouvain.be/sophie.opfergelt
Publications
Research interest
General: Dynamics
of soil biogeochemical interfaces and impact on continental weathering
fluxes from the critical zone: integrated pedologic and isotopic
approach
Processes: Weathering processes, impact of plants, dissolution, neoformation, adsorption-desorption, soil-plant cycling of the elements
Samples: plant, rocks, weathering sequences of soils, clay minerals,
phytoliths, soil solutions, river waters, experimental solutions
Sites: hydroponic culture, volcanic soils under
banana culture in Cameroon
(Mungo area and Mont Cameroon area), basaltic soil catchment in Iceland (Borgarfjordur)
Tools: Si and Mg stable isotopes by MC-ICP-MS (Nu Plasma), Ge/Si ratio by HR-ICP-MS (Element), major and trace
elements by ICP-AES and Quadrupole ICP-MS, soil characterization (clay extraction, total elemental analysis,
XRD, phytolith extraction), observations by SEM
Education
Since 2011 Postdoc, Earth and Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. "Dynamics of soil biogeochemical interfaces
and impact on continental weathering fluxes from the critical zone:
integrated pedologic and isotopic approach"
2009-2010 Postdoc, Earth Science Department,
University of Oxford, United Kingdom:
"Cross-combining stable
Si, Mg, Li isotopic systems to link soil processes with weathering fluxes from
land to ocean"
2004-2008 PhD in Agronomical Sciences and Biological Engineering, Soil Science Unit, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium:
"Silicon cycle in the soil-plant system: Biogeochemical tracing using Si
isotopes" (PhD summary)
2004-2006 DEA in Agronomical Sciences and Biological Engineering, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
1998-2002 MSc and BSc in Geology, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium:
“Characterization of the soft materials involved in debris avalanche at Casita
volcano, Nicaragua” (MSc summary)
[UCL]
(c) Sophie
Opfergelt, 15 february 2011