Pauline Colon / Gina Moseley / Marco Dentz / Franci Gabrovšek / Laurence Gill
Pauline Collon obtained her PhD in Hydrogeology in 2003 from INPL, Nancy (France), where she worked on the modeling of neutral mine drainage in the iron basin of Lorraine. She then served as a teaching assistant in Hydrology at ENGEES in Strasbourg (2004–2005) and became an Associate Professor at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (2005–2007). In 2007, she joined ENSG (Université de Lorraine) as an Associate Professor in Numerical Geology within the GeoRessources Laboratory, where she developed her research on the geological and hydrogeochemical modeling of underground reservoirs characterized by complex geometries, including karstic systems. She was promoted to Full Professor in September 2023.
Gina Moseley is an Assistant Professor of Paleoclimatology at the university of Innsbruck, Austria. Her research interests involve studying the mid-late Quaternary interglacial climates in Central Europe and North Greenland, as well as glacial / interglacial transitions, and rapid climate change in the last glacial-interglacial transition. Since 2015, Gina has led the Greenland Caves Project, a series of multidisciplinary scientific expeditions in caves which represent a unique and largely untapped archive of past environmental change. Gina’s ongoing work is focused on refining chronologies, improving paleoclimate proxies in Arctic cave settings, and integrating these records into broader paleoclimate frameworks. As an outstanding science communicator and recipient of the Rolex Award for Enterprise (2021), she is actively promoting the scientific importance of Greenland’s caves as high-latitude climate archives and highlighting their sensitivity to past and future environmental change.
Marco Dentz has been a professor at IDAEA-CSIC in Barcelona, Spain, since 2009. His research focuses on hydrodynamic flow and transport in porous, fractured and karstic media. He received a Dr. rer. nat. in Physics from Heidelberg University in 2000. He was a Minerva Fellow at the Weizmann Institute of Science before he joined the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona in 2004 as a Ramón y Cajal Fellow. In 2021, he was awarded the InterPore Medal for Porous Media Research. His current research into the hydrodynamics of karst systems is supported the ERC-Synergy project KARST.
Franci Gabrovšek is a physicist and karstologist at the Karst Research Institute ZRC SAZU in Postojna, Slovenia. His research focuses on understanding processes in karst systems, particularly those related to speleogenesis, groundwater hydraulics, cave climate, and karst geomorphology. He combines field investigations with quantitative modeling approaches, applying fundamental physical principles to explore the formation and dynamics of karst environments.
Laurence Gill is a Chair of Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin. His research interests involve studying the fate and transport of both air and water-borne pollutants in the natural and built environment, the characterisation of karst hydrological catchments, the development of passive treatment processes, and the ecohydrology and greenhouse emissions of wetlands. Much of the work involves extensive field studies, which are then used to develop mathematical models to gain further insight into the processes. He is one of 8 Principal Investigators who lead the country’s first Applied Geoscience research centre (iCRAG) and heads the Groundwater research spoke which focuses on karst hydrology. He is co-Director of a new 5-year course in Environmental Science and Engineering hosted between the Schools of Natural Science and Engineering. He is currently a Lead Author helping to draft the 2027 IPCC Methodology Report on Inventories for Short-lived Climate Forcers for emissions from wastewater. Prior to joining at Trinity College in 1999, he spent several years working in the UK water industry on the design of water and wastewater treatment processes for urban populations. He has also worked with Irish NGOs on several water and sanitation projects in sub-Saharan countries such as Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Niger, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania.