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
- Emma Lodes and Romano Clementucci are the current GM ECS Representatives!
- We are super happy to welcome many new faces on board (check out the "Who we are") – A big welcome!
- Sign up for the EGU ECS newsletter to get the latest news!
- We are always welcoming new members. If you want to participate and shape the GM ECS community, get in touch with us!
General
- 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! - Upcoming at EGU 2026, Short Courses and other non-scientific sessions, our team is convening the following events:
- SC1.1 How to navigate EGU: tips and tricks - Monday, 10:45 - 12:30
- SC1.15 Managing Academia and Parenting in society today - Monday, 14:00 - 15:45
- SC2.21 Harnessing cross-disciplinary research - Jupyter Notebooks in EPOS - Monday, 14:00 - 15:45
- SC2.17 Hands-on 3D landslide mapping - Monday, 16:15 - 18:00
- SC3.12 Meet the Editors: How to peer-review – Fundamentals & EGU’s mode - Tuesday, 16:15 - 18:00
- SC2.3 Radiocarbon Dating Concepts and Practical Guide - Wednesday, 8:30 - 10:15
- SC2.16 The (Enhanced) Impact Chains toolkit: Short course on untangling multi-hazard disasters - Wednesday, 16:15 - 18:00
- SC2.18 Harnessing the ENVRI-Hub: data, tools, and services for interdisciplinary research - Thursday, 8:30 - 10:15
- SC2.5 Data compression and reduction for Earth System Sciences datasets in practice - Friday, 14:00 - 15:45
- Organisation of Networking or Pop-Up events.
- 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.
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Robert (Bobby) Houseago
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
What we do
- Promote social events during EGU. If you have an event that you want to promote or join already established events do not hesitate to get in contact with us. For example, throughout the last years, national young geomorphologists networks (Junge Geomorphologen, BGS) have established a zero-hierarchy social event during the General Assembly. This event aims at bringing together young and not any more so young researchers with geomorphology as shared background. The event typically takes place at the cosy Mozart Stüberl, which tends to be fully crowded with a buzzing international crowd. See the Hot News from time to time to see the upcoming scheduling of the event.
- Bridging divisions at and beyond EGU. Geomorphology is an integrative discipline, heavily reaching out to neighbouring and more remote disciplines. As such, it is our goal to facilitate this nature of geomorphology also in the realm of the EGU. We do this by coordinating joint workshops, co-organised sessions, and interactions with other Divisions’ ECS representatives.
- Conveying ECS’ needs to the respective targets. It is our immediate role to serve you ECS in linking you with the partners adequate to address your questions and ideas.
- Building a European-wide network of geomorphology enthusiasts. There is a wealth of nationally organised networks of young scientists with a geomorphic background. We see it as essential to bring together these networks and connect them at European level. We foster joint networking events, cooperatively organised EGU-wide workshops and mutually invitations to the respective national group meetings.
Channels of outreach
- We contribute to the EGU-Blog, run by Anna and Emma (https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm/) through, e.g., interviews by GM ECS. We have started this by posting the interviews of the GM division president candidates before the recent election, and several more are in the making.
- The GM division BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/egu-gm.bsky.social) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/egu-geomorphology-division/) accounts are active with an audience that is growing every week. We encourage continued engagement with the account, so please get in touch by tagging us (or contacting Rachel Oien) in your posts if there is anything you would like to share with the GM and ECS communities.
- Mailing list
The GM ECS group has a mailing list, which can be used for communicating and sharing essential information. It is a moderated list, and responsibilities are hosted above the ECS Representative level. If you are not yet included in this mailing list and want to become part of it, let us know. If you wish to circulate your contents via this mailing list, please send it to ecs-gm@egu.eu, where it will be checked for validity and forwarded to the mailing list coordinator. Thus, include a processing window of a few days before your message will be made available to the envisioned audience.