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Profile
| Academic position | Post Doc |
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| Research fields | Geophysics,Geology |
| Keywords | Mountain building, Sedimentary Provenance, Andes, Landscape Evolution, Subduction Tectonics |
| Honours and awards | 2022: Georg Forster Research Fellowship - Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2019: Short-term Predoctoral Fellowship - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute 2016: Best Student Poster Award - 15th International Conference on Thermochronology 2015: MSc. Fellowship - CAPES, Brazil |
Current contact address
| Country | Colombia |
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| City | Medellin |
| Institution | Universidad Nacional de Colombia |
| Institute | Departamento de Materiales y Minerales |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Claudio Faccenna | Sektion 4.1 Dynamik der Lithosphäre, GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung, Potsdam |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/03/2023 |
Programme(s)
| 2022 | Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2025 | León, S., Rodríguez, O., Ortega-Flores, B., Cárdenas, D., Moreno, E.: Detecting arc rupture and slab window formation in the Isthmus of Panama from the bedrock and detrital record. In: Geology, 53, 2025, 827-831 |
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| 2025 | León, S., Parra, M., Marulanda, U.M., Monsalve, G., Jaramillo, C., Vallejo, D.F., Valencia, V.A.: Tectonostratigraphic evolution of a marginal basin during the transition from arc-collision to subduction: The case of the northern Pacific forearc of Colombia. In: Geological Society of America Bulletin, 137, 2025, 790-809 |
| 2025 | León, S., Faccenna, C., Conrad, E.M., Parra, M., Cárdenas, A., Valencia, V.A.: The role of transpressional tectonics, volcanism, and fluvial processes on the Oligocene to Pliocene evolution of intermontane basins of the western Colombian Andes. In: Tectonics, 44, 2025, e2024TC008461 |
| 2023 | León, S., Jiménez-Rodríguez, S., Piraquive, A., Florez-Amaya, S., Muñoz-Rocha, J., Peña-Urueña, M.L., Bonilla, A., Facio Lince, I., Contreras-Fayad, D., Jiménez, C.: Sediment provenance signal of the discontinuous retroarc topography in the northern Andes during the Early Cretaceous. In: Terra Nova, 35, 2023, 440-449 |