After receiving BSc and MSc degrees in Geosciences from the Ecole Normal Superieure de Paris, France, Benoit Taisne obtained his PhD at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France. His post-doctoral research conducted him to work in different volcano observatories, Piton de la Fournaise (La Reunion, Indian Ocean), La Soufriere (Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles) and Soufriere Hills Volcano (Montserrat, Lesser Antilles) to analyse both magma migration and dome emplacement. Since July 2012, Benoit Taisne is a Principal Investigator at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, and an Assistant Professor at the Division of Earth Sciences.