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GM Geomorphology Early Career Scientists (ECS)

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Division on Geomorphology
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Early Career Scientists (ECS)

Around half of all EGU General Assembly participants are Early Career Scientists (ECS). This vital part of the scientific community is what this website is devoted to. Through the ECS representatives you can have a voice across the EGU realm. On this website we keep you up to date and inform you about our goals and communication channels.

News

General

  1. Communication on LinkedIn, BlueSky, Facebook, and the GM Blog
    EGU-related events, scientific highlights, job advertisements and so on. Anything you pass over to us gets forwarded to a broader audience. Given the size and popularity of geomorphology, we have a very active LinkedIn, a growing BlueSky and 2000+ Facebook likes.
    Posting on this blog is open to anyone who’s willing to write down interesting content, and there is room to increase the frequency of blog posts, so you should not hesitate to contact the editors! Our 2025/26 theme is ‘Highlits: Research, Person or Fieldwork'. Please share your exciting opportunities, landscapes and research!
  2.  Upcoming at EGU 2026, Short Courses and other non-scientific sessions, our team is convening the following events:
  1. Organisation of Networking or Pop-Up events.
    1. GM Division Meet & Greet -  Come have a coffee at the EGU booth and meet the GM team. It is a great chance to break the ice, connect with fellow researchers, and chat with GM Division officers and ECS representatives. Come along to learn more about the division and explore how you can get involved in the EGU community.
    2. Geomorphology (GM) Division Early Career Networking Lunch Join us for an informal lunchtime meet-up — just bring your own food and drink and come along! It’s a great opportunity to connect with fellow ECSs, chat about ideas, and build new collaborations in a relaxed setting. Senior scientists are very welcome to join and support the community!
    3. Geomorphology Social: Connect & Catch Up -  Join the GM Division for an evening of informal networking and community at this year’s EGU General Assembly. The GM social returns for a relaxed night of conversation, connection, and catching up with colleagues across all career stages.
  2. Involvement in decisions at the division level. Rachel joins the discussions with our Division President (Kristen Cook) and the rest of the GM non-ECS committee, where decisions about session mergers and outstanding ECS awards are taken.

Who we are

Romano Clementucci (GM ECS Rep)

Romano is a tectonic geomorphologist, currently working as a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at GFZ Potsdam, Germany. His research addresses questions including how geomorphic systems record geological signals, such as tectonics, uplift and climate, and which are the main controlling factors on the development of topography in terrestrial and marine environments. Romano has been an active member of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) since 2019 and is fostering collaboration and engagement within the geomorphology community.

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Emma Lodes (GM ECS Rep)

Emma Lodes is a geomorphologist and postdoctoral scholar at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Her current research involves understanding how precipitation and thresholds have influenced the history of canyon incision in Hawaii using a combination of cosmogenic radionuclide analysis, field measurements and modelling, and is generally interested in the effects of climate and tectonics on landscape evolution, river incision and sediment transport. She is excited to be a part of the ECS team and contribute to the European Geomorphology community!

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Janek Walk

Janek is a postdoc at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg with a research focus on the processes and evolution of dryland geomorphology and soils – largely based on field studies in North Chile, Northwest Namibia and Central Asia. Outside of drylands, he further works on the human impact on fluvial systems in Central Europe. For these purposes, he integrates space- and UAS-borne remote sensing, GIS analyses, geomorphometry, numerical dating, and sedimentological data. As a regular EGU attendee since 2019, he is looking forward to engaging in the GM ECS community.

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Lonneke Roelofs

Lonneke is a planetary geomorphologist, currently employed as a postdoc at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Lonneke’s research focusses on mass movements such as debris flows and rock avalanches along hillslopes on different planets in the Solar System. To answer questions on the conditions under which these mass movements occur, their dynamics and their potential to change planetary landscapes she combines different methods (experiments, remote sensing, and modelling) and tries to bridge different fields (geomorphology, natural hazards and cryoshperic science). Lonneke has been the convener of the Planetary Geomorphology session at EGU since 2023 and she is looking forward to engaging more with the GM ECS community in the years to come.  Find her on BlueSky @lonnekeroelofs.bsky.social

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Riccardo Reitano

Riccardo is a tectonic geomorphologist at the University of Rome, Roma Tre. He is currently a postdoc researcher and lecturer. His work focuses on understanding the interaction between tectonics and surface processes. For doing this, he uses both analogue and numerical modelling, trying to catch the evolution of landscapes as a function of this continuous feedback. He is looking forward to contributing to the GM Team and to the EGU community.

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Bastien Mathieux

Bastien is a geomorphologist who has done a PhD at the University of Strasbourg, France. His research examines how tectonics, climate, and surface processes interact to shape and sustain topography through time. Combining morphometric analysis, cosmogenic nuclides data, together with the development and application of numerical models and tools, he investigates how landscapes evolve through transient dynamics and changing paleoclimate conditions. He is committed to fostering collaboration and dialogue within the geomorphology community.

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Anna van den Broek

Anna is a geomorphologist and PhD candidate at Utrecht University. Her research centers on debris flow dynamics, specifically investigating erosion processes and the influence of vegetation roots on soil stability. By combining experiments, remote sensing, and modeling, she aims to unravel the dynamics of these powerful flows. As a new member of the ECS team, Anna is looking forward to connecting with the community and sharing the latest geomorphology updates via the EGU GM division blog.

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Stefan Haselberger

Stefan is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Graz, Austria. As a biogeomorphologist, he focuses on high mountain environments and glacier forelands, with a particular interest in how vegetation establishment interacts with sediment dynamics, paraglacial adjustment, and natural hazards in the Alps and polar regions. His research combines field-based monitoring, remote sensing, and GIS analyses to understand landscape stabilisation trajectories and eco-geomorphic feedbacks in rapidly changing proglacial systems. He is highly motivated to contribute to the lively community of the GM division and particularly to support newcomers joining the pack.

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Robert (Bobby) Houseago 

Bobby is a geomorphologist and hydrologist, currently undertaking a NERC Independent Research Fellowship at Loughborough University, UK. His research focuses on quantifying the hydrodynamics and fluid-structure interactions, including the study of turbulence in aquatic vegetation, flow around and within channel blockages, and flow resistance due to roughness. He is also interested in understanding how hydrodynamics influence the transport and trapping of sediment and pollutants, including microplastics. Bobby provides a connection with the British Society of Geomorphology.
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Arindam Biswas

Arindam is a PhD researcher in geomorphology at the University of Cologne, Germany, where he investigates how sediment is produced, transported, and stored in tectonically active mountain belts. His work integrates single‑grain luminescence-based proxies, terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides, and quantitative topographic analysis to unravel how hillslope processes shape fluvial sediment archives in the Southern Alps of New Zealand and the Southern Central Andes of Chile. As an active participant in the EGU General Assembly since 2025 and a contributor to EGU journals, Arindam is enthusiastic about contributing to the activities organised by the EGU GM Early Career Scientists team. He looks forward to strengthening connections within the geomorphology community and supporting early‑career researchers in engaging more deeply with EGU."

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Chiara Bazzucchi

Chiara is a final-year PhD student in Earth Sciences at the University of Roma Tre. Her research focuses on tectonic geomorphology, landscape evolution, and the use of cosmogenic nuclides, with an emphasis on in situ ¹0Be and meteoric ¹0Be/9Be. She is excited to join the GM team and looks forward to actively contributing to the EGU community and its scientific endeavours.

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Wioleta Porębna

Wioleta is a researcher at the Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute in Wrocław, Poland. Her research focuses on the development of sandstone landscapes, particularly the origin, controls, and evolutionary pathways of valley networks in sandstone-dominated tablelands, with a geographical focus on the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. She is also interested in mass movements, including the identification and analysis of palaeolandslides, as well as geoarchaeology. A dedicated field scientist, she enjoys geological mapping and the application of geophysical methods in geological investigations. She is also a co-editor of the GM Blog and an author of popular science articles, actively engaged in communicating geoscience to a broader audience.

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Marylin Uchasara

I am Marylin Uchasara, a Peruvian researcher and PhD candidate in geomorphology at Mines Paris – PSL and IFP Energies Nouvelles, France. My research focuses on the efficient calibration of landscape evolution models by identifying their most sensitive parameters in high-dimensional contexts, using automatic calibration combined with surrogate-based approaches. I'm fundamentally a modeller, but one who cares deeply about physical realism. I use numerical methods to make my models to keep my models honest — to ensure that, beneath the equations, they still describe a landscape that could exist in the field. I look forward to engaging with the Early Career Scientists community, learning from peers across Europe, and contributing to the activities of the GM division.

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Rachel P Oien

Rachel is a Fixed-Term Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, in physical geography. As a quantitative geomorphologist, she focuses on alpine geomorphology and palaeoglaciology throughout the Quaternary, in the Arctic and High Mountain areas worldwide. Her research investigates the relationship between landscape evolution, mass balance and climate in palaeo and modern mountain glaciers. She has attended EGU in 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. She is highly motivated to serve the community as the GM ECS Web Moderator and GM Science Officer. Find her on BlueSky @racheloien.bsky.social or LinkedIn

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What we do

Channels of outreach