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András Zlinszky

András Zlinszky is the Community Evangelist for Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem, the official data gateway and cloud platform for the Sentinel satellites. He has a PhD in conservation biology from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, and has developed remote sensing methods for monitoring lakes, wetlands, and grasslands using various data sources from historic maps to airborne LIDAR. As an earth observation scientist, he has contributed to establishing satellite agricultural monitoring for Hungary, but meanwhile, he also worked as a science communication expert for the szabadonbalaton art-science project in the framework of the Veszprém-Balaton European Capital of Culture 2023. As a full-time science communicator, his current focus is democratizing access to cloud-based processing of massive satellite imagery datasets, and his mission is to convince everyone that they can explore and use Sentinel data. He lives at the edge of a forest in Solymár, Hungary and loves cycling, kayaking and yoga.

How to make the most out of your experience at EGU26 (part 2)

András Zlinszky January 30, 2026

Presenting can be a big topic on its own, so I am about to share some essentials. Let’s suppose you have a talk: have its content completely ready at least a day before, practice it at least three times in full length, and once before you are in front of a real audience. If you …[Read More]

How to make the most out of your experience at EGU26 (part 1)

András Zlinszky January 26, 2026

The first time I came to EGU was in 2007. I was two months away from graduation, a week away from my wedding, and it was my first major international conference. I had no idea what I was doing. It was just a day trip, a red-eye train in the morning, and a train home …[Read More]