Veleda Muller's Biography
I started my bachelor in Geology in 2011, in Federal University of Parana (UFPR), Brazil, driven by my interest by mountains and science. I started my first research project in 2012. In 2014 I had the opportunity to do an exchange to the University of Salamanca, Spain, funded by the brazilian program "Science without Borders". In 2016 I wrote my bachelor thesis about the evolution of the Precambrian Southern Ribeira Belt in Brazil, focusing on microstructures and metamorphic petrology.
In 2017 I started my master's degree in UFPR, Brazil in collaboration with researchers from Chile. My thesis focused on the inversion of the Rocas Verdes Basin in southern Patagonia, with fieldtrips to the fjords of the Magallanes region, the Torres del Paine National Park and the Pali Aike Volcanic Complex. Check my paper in Tectonophysics.
In 2019 I started my PhD at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, in collaboration with the University of Grenoble Alps, France where I stayed 1 year. My PhD thesis focused on the Cenozoic evolution of the Patagonian Andes, using numerical modeling and low-temperature thermochronology. At this time I started looking at the interactions between tectonics and climate in orogenic belts. Check my papers in Scientific Reports and Tectonics, and Solid Earth .
I also participated in collaborative research about the Alps, and I published a paper with the TOPO-EUROPE community.
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I finished my postdoc at the University of Arizona, USA, in the TANGO Collaborative Project and Arizona LaserChron Center in April 2026. I studied the evolutions and interactions between tectonics and surface processes in the Central Andes, integrating field work, geochronology, and numerical modeling.
As an Assistant Professor of Geology and Neotectonics I am looking at the North American Cordillera, especially Alaska, where the tectonic regime had many accretionary episodes and is today affected by seismically active strike-slip and contractional systems, slab windows, flat and steep slabs, and an active volcanic arc. I am focusing in understanding these systems and how they relate/differ from other subduction-related orogens.