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Inside the World of ‘Native Scientists’

and December 20, 2024
Inside the World of ‘Native Scientists’
Experiments during a Native Scientists workshop in Stockholm in October 2017 in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut (original picture at https://www.nativescientists.org/challenging-assumptions).

  Are you ready to dive into the fascinating mutual symbiosis of science, culture, and education? Be ready to be inspired by the blog editor-in-chief of our division blog, Rebekka Steffen, who is a researcher at Lantmäteriet in Sweden, where she specializes on glacial isostatic adjustment—think rising land, ancient ice sheets, and Earth’s stress fields!  But there’s more to Rebekka than cutti ...[Read More]

Expanding the picture: Being a female geodesist in Iran

November 29, 2024
A graphical illustration in watercolour optic with human silhouettes in different colours, and several smaller elements such as an ocean and a satellite.
Figure courtesy: Öykü Koç

Researchers working in STEM fields who also belong to a minority group face more challenges than their more privileged colleagues. Take Maryam Mirzakhani for instance; she was the first woman and the first Iranian to receive the Fields Medal. But along that path, she quietly overcame a lot of barriers on her journey- from being a child during the Iran-Iraq war to educational inequalities and the u ...[Read More]

Women in Geodesy: Kristel Chanard

, and May 29, 2023
Women in Geodesy: Kristel Chanard
Figure courtesy: Öykü Koç

I hope you are ready to be inspired because we have another exciting interview, with Kristel Chanard, our Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee of 2022. I promise that her answers will encourage you to pursue a career in science or continue to that!  Her answers remind us again that we need to make geosciences more inclusive and diverse. So, let’s leave the spotlight to Kristel and hear what ...[Read More]

Women in Geodesy: Sara Bruni

, and May 22, 2023
Women in Geodesy: Sara Bruni
Figure courtesy: Öykü Koç

Are you ready to hear from another woman in geodesy? We pass the mic to our Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awardee of 2018, someone who is currently carrying out her scientific works outside of academia. We are not going to take that much of your time and leave the stage to her. Would you like to share your thoughts about what being a woman in science means to you? I enjoy being a scientist be ...[Read More]