Well-being in science & Early Career Researchers

I find the job of an astronomer is the most beautiful job in the world, as long as we sustain a community that is welcoming to all of its members, regardless of who they are and their career stage. To support this goal, I am active in organizing special conference events for Early Career Researchers and senior colleagues that want to support them. I am also a founding member of the Early Career advisory committee of the EAS and was a Committee Member of Early Career Network of the Royal Astronomical Society.

For resources on this topic, I recommend the overview of my colleague Floor Broekgaarden.

Upcoming events:
TBA

Past events:

European Astronomical Society meetings: 2021 to 2026

Since 2021, our evolving team has been organizing early career astronomers sessions. I have acted as (co-)chair in several of those and now help out with my previous experience, as a group of very talented PhD candidates and postdoc takes the lead. The program on the right shows an example of the second edition of this session in 2022.

National Astronomy Meetings (UK): 2022, 2023
As a national equivalent to the EAS session, we collaborated with the Royal Astronomical Society's Early Career Network to host a number of talks about supporting junior scientists and a panel about academic and non-academic careers.

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