Dimitri Vandenberghe

Dimitri Vandenberghe (°1976, Gent) is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) at the Department of Geology and Soil Science, and a PhD student at the Department of Geography of Ghent University.

Dr. Vandenberghe holds a PhD degree in Chemistry (Ghent University), and has been active in the field of luminescence dating since 1998. Since 2005, he has been scientifically directing luminescence research at the Laboratory of Mineralogy and Petrology (Department of Geology and Soil Science, UGent).

The objective of his PhD research at the Department of Geography is to contribute to an improved understanding of the time-relationship between the widespread Eurasian loess sequences and the signatures of regional climate changes archived within these deposits. To this purpose, a systematic chronological study is performed using modern luminescence dating procedures for quartz and feldspar.