Hello Michael! Thankyou for agreeing to this interview. Could you briefly introduce yourself and your background? Hi, I am Michael Baidu, a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, currently working on the Developing Capacity for storms early warnings for Ghana’s energy sector (EW4Energy) project. I have also worked as a Data Scientist at the …[Read More]
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GeoTalk: Meet Elisa Nobile, Flood Loss & Damage researcher, & Natural Hazards Early Career Representative!
Hello Elisa! Thank you for agreeing to this GeoTalk interview. Could you briefly introduce yourself and your background to our readers? Hello, and thank you for having me. My name is Elisa Nobile and I recently completed my PhD at IUSS Pavia, in Italy. My background is in engineering for the mitigation of risk from …[Read More]
Science has no borders. Researchers do: a modern Odyssey
When Homer wrote The Odyssey nearly three thousand years ago, he described a journey filled with storms, uncertainty, unexpected detours, and the relentless hope of eventually reaching Ithaca. Today’s journeys may no longer cross the Mediterranean, but they continue to test researchers’ resilience in unexpected ways. Not because researchers sail across unknown seas, but because …[Read More]
GeoTalk: meet Silke Asche, researcher of the origin of life on other planets!
Hello Silke and welcome to GeoTalk! Before we dig into your topic of expertise, could you introduce yourself to our readers? Hello, Simon. My name is Silke Asche, and I am a chemist in astrobiology and part of the Agnostic Biosignature Collective led by Dr Heather Graham at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight enter. My Ph.D. …[Read More]
How can we encourage and empower Early Career Researchers? Reflections on a short course held at EGU 2025
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, …[Read More]
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, …[Read More]
Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 5
This miniseries features the tradition of ‘PhD hat’ making in German research institutes and universities. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea (as I once was), this is one of the final milestones a graduate student has before they are officially a “Dr.”. Upon the successful defense of a thesis, the labmates of the …[Read More]
GeoTalk: meet Lorne Farovitch, researcher of climate impacts on deaf communities!
Hello Lorne – welcome to GeoTalk! Could you introduce yourself and your background to our readers? I’m Dr. Lorne Farovitch, a deaf transdisciplinary biomedical researcher and multilingual signer, fluent in more than five sign languages. I’m passionate about advancing health equity for deaf communities worldwide through community-driven research! As the founder and Executive Director of …[Read More]
Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 4
This miniseries features the tradition of ‘PhD hat’ making in German research institutes and universities. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea (as I once was), this is one of the final milestones a graduate student has before they are officially a “Dr.”. Upon the successful defense of a thesis, the labmates of the …[Read More]
Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 3
This miniseries features the tradition of ‘PhD hat’ making in German research institutes and universities. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea (as I once was), this is one of the final milestones a graduate student has before they are officially a “Dr.”. Upon the successful defense of a thesis, the labmates of the …[Read More]