Professor, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany

AGU embraces the global community and welcomes diverse leaders from around the world, representing various identities, voices, and perspectives. List any identities, voices, and perspectives you would bring, including but not limited to nationality, regional representations, racial and ethnic backgrounds, and any other identity you feel comfortable sharing.

AGU leaders should aim to create a community that provides opportunities and fosters success for underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities and identities.

Volunteer experience that relates to this position:

Repeatedly served as judge for best student presentation at AGU Fall Meeting

As one of the elected leaders of your section, how will you partner with your president and president-elect to communicate with and engage your members to help implement AGU’s strategic plan including its mission and vision?

AGU leaders should promote measures for improving the community standards and best practices for open data, transparent peer-review, decision making policies of funding agencies, as well as dissemination of Earth science research to the wider public, with the goal to establish an inclusive scientific culture of mutual respect that fosters critical thinking and is valued and trusted upon by the general public and governments.

Section affiliations:

Mineral and Rock Physics; Planetary Sciences; Study of the Earth's Deep Interior; Tectonophysics; Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology