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Iris van Zelst is an interdisciplinary geophysicist focusing on geodynamics and seismology of Venus. She studied Earth Sciences (BSc) and Geophysics (MSc) at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and obtained her PhD in geodynamics and seismology from ETH Zürich in Switzerland in 2020. She has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leeds in the UK and at the German Aerospace Centre in Germany. Throughout her career, she has studied (tsunamigenic) seismicity in subduction zones on Earth and explored atmospheric modeling applications for exoplanets. Currently, her passion lies in understanding the geodynamics and seismology of Venus, where she investigates questions such as how its surface features formed, the nature of tectonics on Venus, and the potential for venusquakes. To explore these questions, she employs numerical geodynamic models as a primary tool in her research.
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