I am a planetary scientist working as a postdoctoral researcher for the Planetary Imaging Group (PIG) at the University of Bern, Switzerland. My research is centred on the acquisition and analysis of spacecraft observations of planetary surfaces. I combine these observations with computer models of geomorphic processes and laboratory studies of planetary material simulants, in order to learn about the climatic and geologic history of a planet. In particular, I study processes related to ices and volatile elements, and how their physical properties and distribution are connected to a planet's climatic and geologic history. 

Contact

Space Research and Planetary Sciences
Physikalisches Institut
Universität Bern
Gesellschaftsstrasse 6
CH-3012 Bern
Switzerland 

Office: +41 31 631 48 17
email: patricio.becerra@space.unibe.ch 
Background image: HiRISE image of the margin of Mars' North Polar Layered Deposits and the Tleilax dune field