# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/veronique-dehant
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:40:17.179Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/veronique-dehant"
name: "Veronique Dehant"
slug: "veronique-dehant"
description: "Véronique Dehant is a Belgian geodesist and geophysicist. She specializes in \nmodeling the deformation of the Earth's interior in response to the planet's rotation and the gravitational forces exerted upon it by the Sun and Moon. She has used similar techniques to study Mercury, Venus, Mars and the icy \nsatellites of the outer planets. \nShe primarily works at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, but also serves as an \nExtraordinary Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain."
tagline: "Belgian geodesist and geophysicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Veronique_Dehant.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1959-07-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://homepage.oma.be/veroniq/"
sources:
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    title: "Véronique Dehant"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "فيرونيك ديانت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Veronique Dehant"
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    title: "Véronique Dehant"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9ronique_Dehant"
    title: "Véronique Dehant"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9ronique_Dehant"
    title: "Véronique Dehant"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9ronique_Dehant"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump