Antonio Polo Sanchez

I have become involved in the world of science since high-school, where I participated in several expo-sciences organised between different high-schools of Spain as an active member. During high-school, I started to become interested in Geology and after obtaining my Baccalaureate in Sciences, I decided to study a four year bachelor degree in Geology at the University of Salamanca, which I have ended on 2018 as first of promotion. On 2018, I have also applied to the first edition of the European Federation of Geologists (EFG) Mentoring Programme. During this programme, I have been and still be cooperating with my mentor (Christian Schaffalitzky) in several projects related to the Geoscience and Society and Mineral exploration. I am specially interested in the world of volcanology, therefore I decided to studied a masters degree in this discipline at Université Clermont-Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand, France) which I had finished on 2020. Decided to continue my research in volcanology. I made an internship in the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) related to tephra characterization related to Deception Island (Antarctica) volcanic activity; which I finished on June 2021. Since June 2021; I am carrying a PhD at the University of Salamanca (Spain), under the supervision of Dr. A. Álvarez-Valero and Dr. A. Geyer, related to the degassing characterization of Deception Island (Antarctica) volcano through Noble Gas and stable isotopes (H and O) geochemistry. Apart from Geology, I love learning foreign languages, my mother tongue is Spanish and I have focused specially in English and French. My strengths are punctuality, attention to detail, open mind, persistence, ethic criteria, as well as the ability of working on my own.