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 CMP

Michaela Falkenroth

University of Trier, Germany

michaela.falkenroth@tu-darmstadt.de

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.

sudhirar@iisc.ac.in

ECR Officer TERPRO

Paula Marques Figueiredo

Instituto Dom Luiz, University of Lisbon, Portugal

paula_figueiredo@ncsu.edu

ECR Officer HABCOM

Prachi Joshi

Sharma Centre For Heritage Education, India

prachinjo@gmail.com

ECR Officer CMP

Udita Mukherjee

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

umukherjee@tulane.edu

ECR Officer PALCOM

Syed Azharuddin, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Malaya, Malaysia. My research focuses on paleoclimate and paleoceanography, where I use geochemical proxies, biomarker tracers, marine sediments, and Earth system approaches to reconstruct past climate-ocean variability and improve our understanding of future climate change.

azhar0606@gmail.com; syedazhar@um.edu.my