Born in Tournai in July 1980, Martin Vancoppenolle joined the Facultés de Namur in 1998 and then the Université catholique de Louvain in 2000 (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve), where he completed a Master Degree in Physics of Climate in 2003. Under the supervision of Professor Thierry Fichefet, he started a Ph.D at the Institut G. Lemaître (UCL), that he completed in 2008. Martin attended numerous scientific meetings abroad, took part into two field campaigns in both the Arctic and Antarctic regions