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Early Career Scientists

GeoTalk: meet Thanushika Gunatilake, researcher of earthquake impacts on geothermal energy

GeoTalk: meet Thanushika Gunatilake, researcher of earthquake impacts on geothermal energy

Hello Thanushika – welcome to GeoTalk! Before we delve deeper, could you introduce yourself to our readers? Thank you for having me! I’m Thanushika Gunatilake, an Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. My research connects natural and human-induced processes in the Earth’s crust; from earthquake nucleation in the central Apennines, subduction dynamics, and volcanic activity, to geoth ...[Read More]

The existential modelling crisis – and how to overcome it

The existential modelling crisis – and how to overcome it

Recently, we had a big name in fire ecology visiting our institute. He had come, among other things, to look for records of a certain fire-adapted shrub in my university’s herbarium. While myself and a colleague helped him go through the stacks of pressed and archived specimens, I asked him why there were so little contributions to the herbarium in recent years. His response was: “People sto ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: meet Stefanie Kaboth Bahr, your new Early Career Scientist Union Representative!

GeoTalk: meet Stefanie Kaboth Bahr, your new Early Career Scientist Union Representative!

Hello Stef. Thank you for agreeing to this interview! Before we delve deeper, could you tell our readers about yourself and your background in palaeoclimatology? Thank you for having me! I’m a Junior Professor of Palaeoclimatology at Freie Universität Berlin, a position I’ve been fortunate to hold since 2023. My academic journey began with a PhD in Paleoclimatology from Utrecht University in the N ...[Read More]