ECR Community
Early Career Scientists
INQUA defines early-career researchers as graduate students and postgraduates within eight years of receiving their last degree. This period of eight years does not consider time taken not working as an academic or due to family responsibilities.
Our mission is:
- To increase the dissemination of information between INQUA, its Commissions and its young members through both ECR networks and social media.
- To reciprocally represent the views and increase the flow of information from the ECR community to the INQUA Executive Committee.
- To support early-career Quaternary scientists from developing countries and engage them in INQUA activities.
- To promote innovative research, scientific leadership, and community outreach among INQUA ECRs.
What are we doing?
Providing and sharing information about upcoming meetings, projects, jobs, opportunities, etc., and also about INQUA and its commissions. Helping to provide mentorship from experienced academics to the next generation of Quaternary scientists through the organisation of meetings and workshops. Promoting INQUA activities through outreach and social media.
ECR Officers
ECR Officer PALCOM
Sudhir Bhadra, Centre for Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India
I am a paleoclimatologist and paleoceanographer whose research focuses on reconstructing past oceanographic and climatic changes using geochemical and micropaleontological proxies.
ECR Officer TERPRO
Paula Marques Figueiredo
Instituto Dom Luiz, University of Lisbon, Portugal
ECR Officer PALCOM
Syed Azharuddin, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University. My research focuses on reconstructing climate and oceanographic changes from the Pliocene to the present using geochemical proxies in both terrestrial and marine archives. My personal Webpage can be accessed here: https://climatesyed.weebly.com/
ECR Chair
Opeyemi Adewumi
Center For Geosciences, University Of Coimbra, Portugal
International conference on the morphosedimentary dynamics of gravel-bed lowland riversJoin experts to explore gravel-bed lowland river dynamics.
Podcast INQUA India 2027Quaternary is the age when modern recognisable humans started inhabiting this planet. All over the world scientists are engaged in studying various aspects of human evolution. Once every 4 years scientists from all across the…
Podcast INQUA India 2027Quaternary is the age when modern recognisable humans started inhabiting this planet. All over the world scientists are engaged in studying various aspects of human evolution. Once every 4 years scientists from all across the…
International Day of Caves and Karst (IDCK)First Celebration of the International Day of Caves and Karst (IDCK) proclaimed by UNESCO Postojna, Slovenia: 10 – 13 September 2026
Clare Hall Cambridge Sir Nicholas Shackleton Visiting Fellow 2027Clare Hall is proposing to appoint a Sir Nicholas Shackleton Visiting Fellow to begin no earlier than January 2027.
