Eugenio Veloso is currently the Chief of the Marine Geology and Geophysics Program at the Chilean Geological Survey (SERNAGEOMIN in Spanish), and president of the Marine Geology Group within the National Oceanographic Commission (CONA). His early research focused on the emplacement dynamics of ophiolitic bodies into continental crust, to better constrain and understand the mechanism of oceanic accretion and the growth of continents. Further during his career, Dr. Veloso led and participate in several research projects dealing mostly with the role that fractures, joints and other structures have on the mechanisms of hydrothermal fluid mobility and heat distribution on subduction environments, especially in the case of subducting oceanic ridges (i.e. Taitao Triple Junction). This has allowed him to participate on several expeditions across the Pacific Basin, both with the International Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) and the Japanese Agency for Marine Technology and Exploration (JAMSTEC), as well as several others along and across the Patagonian fjords and lakes.
Born in Santiago, He received his degree in Geology (honors) at the Universidad de Chile and his PhD at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). After his PhD, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Tsukuba in conjunction with the Integrated Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) in Marine Geology and further at the Catholic University of the North (UCN) in Geodynamics. Until 2023, he was also an Associate Professor at the Oceanography Departments at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), were he taught introductory and advance courses including paleomagnetics, structural geology and sedimentology.
Currently, his research is focus on the control that fractures and other brittle structures have on the geochemistry of hydrothermal fluids and how these, in turn, provide the necessary conditions for the development of microbial communities in both shallow- and deep-water environments.
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