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The EGU mentoring programme: Experiences from mentor and mentee perspectives

, , and March 13, 2025
The EGU mentoring programme: Experiences from mentor and mentee perspectives
Finding your way through a conference using the EGU Mentoring Programme (Figure courtesy: Öykü Koç)

The EGU mentoring programme: Experiences from mentor and mentee perspectives Each year, EGU offers a mentoring programme to pair a more experienced conference “veteran”, defined as having participated in a General Assembly (GA) at least two times, and a conference “newbie”. As we’re getting closer to the GA period, the submission deadline for the mentoring programme is on 17.03.25, and the ultimat ...[Read More]

Expanding the Picture: Simon Tong

January 31, 2025
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

Hi Simon, thank you for sharing your story with us and the geodesy community! First, can you give us your ‘classical work intro’ so that we get an idea of where you are working and what your field of interest is? I am currently working at Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)’s Earth Observation Centre (EOC) as a working student, while at the same time studying for a Master’s degree at T ...[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]