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Sophie L. Buijs

Sophie Buijs is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. After obtaining her bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, she made a switch to an Environmental Sciences Masters program. In her research, she aims to improve our understanding of post-disaster recovery from a multi-risk perspective, within both human- and environmental systems. The work is a part of the EU H2020-funded MYRIAD-EU project, where she currently serves as the Early Career Representative. Recently, she also became a co-lead for the new RiskKAN working group on dynamic vulnerability.

How can we encourage and empower Early Career Researchers? Reflections on a short course held at EGU 2025

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How can we encourage and empower Early Career Researchers? Reflections on a short course held at EGU 2025
Response to Mentimeter question: “What is engagement and empowerment to you?”

At the EGU General Assembly 2025, we initiated a short course entitled “Best Practices for Early Career Researcher (ECR) Engagement and Empowerment in Research Projects”, designed and led by Early Career Researchers (ECRs). The goal was to provide an interactive platform for ECRs, project leaders, and anyone involved in research projects to come together, reflect, share experiences, co-learn, and ...[Read More]

Connecting the dots: the importance of recognising multi-hazard events in disaster reporting

and March 27, 2023
Connecting the dots: the importance of recognising multi-hazard events in disaster reporting
A photo reporter and a cameraman broadcasting during Hurricane Sandy, Jersey City, New Jersey (USA), 29 October 2012. Photo credit: Wally Gobetz, available at https://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/8153742838 under Creative Commons license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/)

In the past year, the world has witnessed many severe disasters caused by multiple hazards whose impacts overlapped in time and space. February this year, two severe earthquakes hit Syria and Turkey shortly after each other, followed by two more powerful earthquakes and over a hundred aftershocks in subsequent weeks [1,2]. The disaster caused over 48 thousand fatalities, and many people are still ...[Read More]