Every year, around a hundred postdoctoral researchers from all the sciences win the prestigious Banting fellowships by demonstrating their leadership and excellence in research. They have proposed a research project of unparalleled quality in line with the research objectives and strategic priorities of their host directors and institutions.
UQAC is proud to welcome its first Banting postdoctoral fellow: Dr Ségolène Vandevelde. She is under the supervision of Professor L.Paul Bédard of the Earth Sciences Teaching Unit and Director of the Centre for Mineral Resources Studies (CERM). It is co-directed by Professor Érik Langevin of the Society and Land Sciences Teaching Unit and Director of the Laboratory of History and Archaeology of the Eastern Subarctic (LHASO) and Professor Adelphine Bonneau, who is affiliated with the Chemistry and History Departments at the Université de Sherbrooke. Dr Vandevelde will be contributing to the DARQ (Dater l’Art Rupestre au Québec) project, which was funded by an Audace grant in 2020.
Ms Vandevelde has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the Université de Montréal, a master’s degree in archaeology and art history from the Université d’Aix-Marseille and a doctorate in archaeology, anthropology and prehistory from the Université de Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne. She was a Fondation des Treilles post-doctoral researcher at the University of Paris Nanterre and Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne (UMR7041 ArScAn, MSH Mondes) and at the University of Paris Saclay (CNRS, UMR8212 LSCE-IPSL). She has published around 15 peer-reviewed articles and 4 book chapters. She has also won numerous prizes and awards.
The fellow’s contribution will focus more specifically on an original approach aimed at establishing a micro-chronological setting for rock paintings in Quebec. These paintings reveal both the occupation of the land and the thought and spirituality of the Aboriginal populations. It is important to establish their chronology in order to place them in their historical context. At LabMaTer, she will be using quadrupole and time-of-flight mass spectrometers coupled with laser ablation to obtain in situ geochemical data and cathodoluminescence microscopy. It will be able to take advantage of the partnerships established by the LHASO with Quebec’s First Nations. She will also benefit from the equipment and expertise of the Laboratoire Archéosciences et Sciences du Patrimoine at the Université de Sherbrooke, which specialises in the characterisation of rock paintings and their radiocarbon dating. Finally, Dr Ségolène Vandevelde will be carrying out additional analyses at the Plateforme Analytique Géosciences Paris Saclay (PANOPLY) in France, under the co-direction of Professor Edwige Pons-Branchu (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement), which also demonstrates the international scope of this research project on rock art in Quebec.
Press release taken from that of UQAC
https://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/fr/2021-2022-fra.html
