• Submarine volcanism
• Marine tephrostratigraphy
• Magma-water interactions
• Lava viscosity
• Rheology
• Petrology
• Textural analyses

Interaction of climatic changes and submarine volcanism at mid-ocean ridges (T-SECTOR)

Marine Cruises

SO321/1 - SO321/2 (07/08/2025 – 16/09/2025): Sonne Research Vessel, Dredging - Wax coring - Coring, Shift responsible

SO314 (11/08/2025 – 06/10/2025): Sonne Research Vessel, Dredging - Wax coring - Coring team

SR2510 (28/04/2025 – 12/05/2025): Sally Ride Research Vessel, Wax coring - Coring team

MD246/MAYOBS30 (17/09/2024 – 10/10/2024): Marion Dufresne Research Vessel, Dredging team (DOI: 10.17600/18003592)

MD242/MAYOBS25 (12/09/2023 – 28/09/2023): Marion Dufresne Research Vessel, Dredging team (DOI: 10.17600/18003404)

MAYOBS23 (09/07/2022 – 23/07/2022): Marion Dufresne Research Vessel, Dredging team (DOI:10.17600/18002494)

MAYOBS21 (13/09/2021 – 04/10/2021): Marion Dufresne Research Vessel, Dredging team (DOI:10.17600/18001986)

Field experience

International School of Volcanology (June 2023): Aeolian Islands (Italy)

Workshop

2nd Submarine Volcanism Workshop (October 2026): Santorini (Greece)

German - French Workshop on Tropical Volcanic Island (May 2026): Postdam (Germany)

Since 03/2025:    Postdoctoral Researcher, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
2024:                    Ph.D, UCA (France)
2021:                    Double Master diploma in Earth Sciences, UCA (France) and MTU (USA)
2019:                    Bachelor in Earth Sciences, UCA (France)

FYORD Travel Grant (2026)

Petersen Early Career Prize (2025)

First author

Verdurme, P., Chevrel, O., Médard, E., Gurioli, L., Berthod, C., Brückel, K., Komorowski, J.-C., Bachèlery, P., 2025. Lava Rheological Evolution and Flow Emplacement During the Deep Submarine Fani Maoré Eruption (Mayotte). JGR Solid Earth 130, e2024JB030363. doi.org/10.1029/2024JB030363

Verdurme, P., Gurioli, L., Chevrel, O., Médard, E., Berthod, C., Komorowski, J.-C., Harris, A., Paquet, F., Cathalot, C., Feuillet, N., Lebas, E., Rinnert, E., Donval, J.-P., Thinon, I., Deplus, C., Bachèlery, P., 2024. Magma ascent and lava flow field emplacement during the 2018–2021 Fani Maoré deep-submarine eruption insights from lava vesicle textures. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 636, 118720. doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118720

Verdurme, P., Le Losq, C., Chevrel, O., Pannefieu, S., Médard, E., Berthod, C., Komorowski, J.-C., Bachèlery, P., Neuville, D.R., Gurioli, L., 2023. Viscosity of crystal-free silicate melts from the active submarine volcanic chain of Mayotte. Chemical Geology 121326. doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121326

Verdurme, P., Carn, S., Harris, A.J.L., Coppola, D., Di Muro, A., Arellano, S., Gurioli, L., 2022. Lava Volume from Remote Sensing Data: Comparisons with Reverse Petrological Approaches for Two Types of Effusive Eruption. Remote Sensing 14, 323. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14020323

Co-author

Brückel, K., Médard, E., Costa, F., Berthod, C., Verdurme, P., Bachèlery, P., Komorowski, J.-C., Gurioli, L., 2025. Integrating olivine diffusion chronometry with monitoring data to decipher the magma dynamics at the Fani Maoré volcano. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology. doi.org/10.1029/2025GC012568

Thivet, S., Pereira, L., Menguy, N., Médard, É., Verdurme, P., Berthod, C., Troadec, D., Hess, K.-U., Dingwell, D.B., Komorowski, J.-C., 2023b. Metastable liquid immiscibility in the 2018–2021 Fani Maoré lavas as a mechanism for volcanic nanolite formation. Commun Earth Environ 4, 483. doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01158-w

Berthod, C., Komorowski, J.-C., Gurioli, L., Médard, E., Bachèlery, P., Besson, P., Verdurme, P., Chevrel, O., Di Muro, A., Peltier, A., Devidal, J.-L., Nowak, S., Thinon, I., Burckel, P., Hidalgo, S., Deplus, C., Loubrieu, B., Pierre, D., Bermell, S., Pitel-Roudaut, M., Réaud, Y., Fouchard, S., Bickert, M., Le Friant, A., Paquet, F., Feuillet, N., Jorry, S.L., Fouquet, Y., Rinnert, E., Cathalot, C., Lebas, E., 2022. Temporal magmatic evolution of the Fani Maoré submarine eruption 50 km east of Mayotte revealed by in situ sampling and petrological monitoring. Comptes Rendus. Géoscience 354, 1–29. doi.org/10.5802/crgeos.155