Dr. Cristina Afonso
Physical sciences
Environment, Physical sciences
Geophysics
Global and theoretical seismology, Earth's deep interior
Ammodo/KNAW award for fundamental research in natural sciences, by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, 2015
Philip Leverhulme Prize, 2010
Murchison Fund, by the Geological Society London, 2008
Fowler Award, by the Royal Astronomical Society London, 2005
Doornbos Prize, by the IUGG Committee on Studies of Earth's deep Interior, 2004
AGU outstanding student paper award, Fall meeting 1998
Dutch, English
ERC starting grant, 2008-2014
ERC consolidator grant, 2016-2021
NWO Vici grant, 2016 – 2021
Television: Interview for BBC Horizon programme 'The Core' (2011)
5 Lectures for 'Universiteit van Nederland' broadcast on YouTube and television, 2016
Newspaper: Articles in Dutch newspapers (1999, 2001, 2010, 2013) and KIJK popular Science magazine (2016)
Radio: Interview for BBC (2008, 2013, 2015) and Dutch radio (2010, 2015)
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