At the EGU General Assembly 2018, a new team of Seismology Early Career Scientist representatives was introduced and installed. With more than half of the EGU membership consisting of Early Career Scientists, the team represent an important part of the community and want to be approachable for all. They will be responsible for the Seismology blog, organize the yearly short course “Seismology for non-seismologists” at the General Assembly, and organize outreach and career events. Next to that, they plan to get in touch with industry (where do those seismologists end up who do not continue in academia?), and integrate the short course with similar courses organized by the Geodynamics and Tectonics division. Hopefully they will update you on this here in the next months!
You can reach the team on ecs-sm@egu.eu, and for all those who didn’t make it to the meeting (including some of the new team!) we here give a brief introduction of the new team.
Nienke Blom
Nienke is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Cambridge and works on seismic waveform tomography, with a specific interest in developing methods to image density. She enjoys reading a good book, hiking, cycling, and cooking. As ECS rep, she will mostly be involved with the EGU blog and the EGU short course “Seismology for non-seismologists”, which she’s already helped organise for the past couple of years. Nienke is the EGU point of contact for the ECS rep team. You can reach her at nienke.blom[at]esc.cam.ac.uk.
Marina Corradini
Marina is an Italian PhD Candidate at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris. In her work she investigates the relation between the rupture complexity and the high-frequency seismic radiation through the use of a back-projection technique. When she is not in her office, she works as a scientific communicator at ‘Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie’ of Paris. As ECS-reps she would like to promote gender equality in geoscience and explore how the society currently supports postgraduate and postdoctoral female researchers in their career progression. You can reach her at corradini[at]ipgp.fr
Eric Loeberich
Since 2.5 years Eric is a PhD student at the University of Vienna, working in the field of seismic anisotropy in the upper mantle, as produced by lattice-preferred orientation of olivine in lithosphere and asthenosphere and detectable by shear-wave splitting measurements. During his ECS-reps time, Eric tries to establish relations between the Seismology Division and the industry together with Michaela, Andrea and Walid and will help Lucile taking care of the Seismology Twitter account (@EGU_Seismo). In his leisure time, Eric plays basketball and football, discovers Vienna or enjoys a coffee (or one more). You can reach him at: eric.loeberich[at]univie.ac.at
Michaela Wenner
Michaela just recently started her PhD at ETH Zurich on seismic signals of mass movements, such as rockfalls, debris flows and ice avalanches. Whenever she is not occupied with seismology or fieldwork, she loves to meet up with friends and go to the mountains. Michaela will mostly be involved in the industry connections the ECS team wants to establish. She will also help organizing the EGU short course “seismology for non-seismologists” at the general assembly, where she already participated as a speaker this year. You can reach her at wenner[at]vaw.baug.ethz.ch
Maria Tsekhmistrenko
Maria is currently a PhD student at the University of Oxford. She is focused on the seismic imaging of the western Indian Ocean. More specifically the velocity structures beneath the La Reunion Island from the surface to the core mantle boundary. Maria is also interested in data processing and visualization since she believes it makes research more accessible to a wider range of scientists as well as non-scientists. In her spare time she enjoys a good book, photography, rowing and good food. As an ECS rep she will be engaged in the EGU blog and the EGU short course “Seismology for non-seismologists”. You can reach her at mariat[at]earth.ox.ac.uk
Walid Ben Mansour
Walid is a post-doctoral research fellow at Macquarie University and works on multi-observable probabilistic tomography for different targets (mining, seismic hazard) in the Macquarie’s Geophysics and Geodynamic group. In parallel of his work, Walid practices judo, long distance running and organises every year local events for the festival Pint of Science. As ECS rep, he will work on the bridge between academic and industry field and also on short courses for non-seismologists with the team. You can reach him at walid.benmansour[at]mq.edu.au.
Lucile Bruhat
Lucile is currently a visiting researcher at the Earthquake Research Institute in Tokyo, Japan. Starting July 2018, she will be a post-doctoral researcher at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris, France. Her work aims at improving the description and understanding of the physical processes that underlie the earthquake cycle, through a combination of geodetic/seismological data analysis and numerical modeling of the earthquake rupture. She is originally from Versailles, France, and after an initial training in Paris, went to Stanford University for her PhD. With Eric, she’ll be in charge of the Twitter and Facebook accounts of the Seismology Division. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, cooking, working out at the gym, and discovering new craft beers. You can reach her on Twitter at @seismolucy.
Andrea Berbellini
Andrea is an Italian Post Doc at the University College London. He works on different projects, such as a new method for source characterization from second-order moments and crustal tomography from ellipticity of Rayeligh waves. In his free time he likes to binge-watch tv series, eat too much and go to the beach (if available). You can reach him at: a.berbellini[at]ucl.ac.uk
