Many congratulations to NEMOH ESR fellow Antonio Capponi who successfully defended his PhD thesis “The consequences of gas slug ascent in a stratified magma on Strombolian eruption dynamics” on Monday, at Lancaster University, U.K.. Anto’s thesis combined laboratory experiments, numerical simulation and field observations, and was examined by Dr Andy Folkard (Lancaster) and Dr Jerry Phillips (University of Bristol), and he was supervised by Steve Lane and Mike James. Well done Anto!