Programme Committee

GeoTalk: Jane Roussak, EGU’s Events Manager, tells us how to get connected at EGU24!

Simon Clark March 22, 2024

The EGU General Assembly 2024 (EGU24) will be held 14-19 April 2024, in Vienna, Austria and online. To learn more about discovering your research network at EGU24 and the inner workings of organising such an event, I sat down with Jane Roussak to ask her some questions. Hello Jane. Thank you for joining GeoTalk! Could you introduce yourself to our readers? Thank you for having me! I’m Jane Roussak ...[Read More]

GeoTalk: meet General Assembly decision makers, Maria-Helena Ramos and Athanasios Nenes

Simon Clark March 28, 2023

Hello! Thank you for joining this special edition of GeoTalk. Before we dig deeper, could you both introduce yourselves? Hello! I am Helena, a research scientist in hydrology at INRAE, a national research institute in France. I have been involved with EGU for several years now, first as presenter (my first participation to an EGU General Assembly was in 2001 in Nice!), then as convener, sub-progra ...[Read More]

#shareEGU20: A closing message from Susanne Buiter, outgoing Programme Committee Chair.

Hazel Gibson May 8, 2020

Susanne Buiter, a Professor at RWTH Aachen University in Germany and former President of the Tectonics and Structural Geology Division of EGU, will be stepping down from her current role as Programme Committee Chair at the end of this year’s General Assembly. Whilst that should have happened in Vienna as normal, EGU was faced with the difficult decision to cancel the physical meeting this ye ...[Read More]

Help shape the conference programme: Inter- and Transdisciplinary Sessions at the 2020 General Assembly

Olivia Trani August 7, 2019

Do you enjoy the EGU’s annual General Assembly but wish you could play a more active role in shaping the scientific programme? Now is your chance! But hurry, the session submission deadline is fast approaching. You’ve got until 5 September to propose changes. As well as the standard scientific sessions, subdivided by Programme Groups, EGU coordinates Inter- and Transdisciplinary Sessions (ITS) at ...[Read More]

Accessibility at the General Assembly 2019

Olivia Trani March 22, 2019

In just a couple of weeks, thousands of geoscience professionals from around the world will convene in Vienna, Austria to take part in the EGU General Assembly, the largest geoscience conference in Europe! It’s important to the EGU that scientists are able to attend and enjoy this annual meeting to the fullest. Here are a few of the ways EGU’s annual meeting strives to accommodate our diverse comm ...[Read More]

Help shape the conference programme: Inter- and Transdisciplinary Sessions at the 2019 General Assembly

Olivia Trani August 10, 2018

Do you enjoy the EGU’s annual General Assembly but wish you could play a more active role in shaping the scientific programme? Now is your chance! But hurry, the session submission deadline is fast approaching. You’ve got until September 6th to propose changes. As well as the standard scientific sessions, subdivided by Programme Groups, EGU coordinates Inter- and Transdisciplinary Sessions (ITS) a ...[Read More]

Shape the EGU 2019 scientific programme: The call for sessions is open!

Olivia Trani July 6, 2018

Do you enjoy the EGU’s annual General Assembly but wish you could play a more active role in shaping the scientific programme? Now is your chance! From today, until 6 Sep 2018, you can suggest: Sessions (with conveners and description), Short Courses, or; Modifications to the existing skeleton programme sessions Plus from now until 18 January 2019, you can propose townhall meetings. It’s imp ...[Read More]

Young scientists – meet your representative!

Sara Mynott October 16, 2013

Hello, my name is Sam Illingworth and as well as being a postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Manchester, I will be taking over from Jennifer Holden as the Young Scientist representative for the EGU’s Programme Committee, which coordinates the annual General Assembly. I studied for my PhD at the University of Leicester between 2007 and 2010, investigating the capability of the Infr ...[Read More]