RAYMOND PATRICK MAXIMO
I received my Docteur en Sciences degree at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels, Belgium in March 2020. My research is on the geochemical composition of thermal springs of active volcanoes in the Philippines.
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I am also currently a science research specialist at the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) in the Philippines.
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My research interests include geochemistry of hard rocks and volcanic fluids, physical volcanology, petrology, volcanic hazards and sulfur isotopic studies of thermal waters.
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My public thesis defense last March 2020 at Universitè libre de Bruxelles. I successfully defended my dissertation entitled, "Geochemical and isotopic characterization of hydrothermal systems of active volcanoes in the Philippines". Finally, I can say that I am a doctor!!!
June 12, 1991 paroxysmal eruption of Mount Pinatubo.
Photo credit: David Harlow of USGS
MY TRAVELS
La Fossa Crater, Vulcano Island, Italy. I was lucky to be able to climb the top of Vulcano. This is when you are standing on the crater rim of La Fossa crater.
Up close and personal with Cotopaxi volcano in Quito, Ecuador.I was lucky to be chosen as one of the participants to the VUELCO workshop. Cotopaxi volcano is one of the laboratory volcanoes of VUELCO because of its long period of unrest.