Andrés Melo Girón

Andres Melo Girón worked as a geologist for eight years in public and private institutions in Colombia, where fieldwork on tectonics and structural geology became his major interest. He completed a master's degree in tectonics at TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany, and is now pursuing a Ph.D. His research combines luminescence dating with hyperspectral imaging to study active faults — using dating techniques to constrain when faults have moved, and spectral imaging to extract structural-geomechanical and mineral properties from fault outcrops that traditional methods often miss. Working at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), his target is to apply this combined approach to the Palomares Fault in southeastern Spain and other active faults in Europe.