Cristina Accotto

Ms. Cristina Accotto completed her BSc and MSc in Geology at the Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy) and earned a second MSc in Structural Geology with Geophysics from the University of Leeds (UK). With over seven years of experience in a geoengineering firm, she contributed to geological and geotechnical studies for large-scale infrastructure projects across Europe, South America, and Northern Africa. In 2021, she obtained her PhD from the Universidad de Granada (Spain), where she later undertook a postdoctoral fellowship. Currently, she ism postdoctoral fellow at the Université Laval in Quebec. Her research focuses on the tectonic evolution of ancient orogens, mainly using structural analyses and detrital zircon geochronology in provenance studies. Since 2022, her work has concentrated on the Ungava Orogen in Nunavik, Quebec, where she has conducted three field campaigns, gathering structural data from the Southern Domain and collecting samples for geochronological and geochemical analyses which are leading her to the reinterpretation of part of the foreland domain of this orogen.