Today I attended two very interesting lectures through the Future of Energy network: Prof @brunoehrler presented his work on the use of Perovskites for solar power and Prof. Joyeeta Gupta talked about how as a society we can stop using fossil fuels.

Nice time today with IBED seminar speaker Heribert Insam hosted by Edith J. S. Eder on an exciting new microbiology museum coming to Austria!! mikrobalpina.org/en/standort-ko…

Great lecture today by Elisabeth H Krueger on avoiding sustainability tradeoffs in the energy transition during the Future of Energy seminars

This and last week I worked in the labs of Utrecht University to measure the zeta potential of my floc solutions. The collaboration with Alemeh Karami, who I met at the NAC Conference in March, is going really well and the results are promising!

Today I joined @MariGliesch and Leonardo Hinojosa on the field to collect 120 samples from their drought experiments; it was a lot of work but also a lot of fun! 🌱🌧️

Thursday was the PE&RC Day 2023 on Disease Ecology with interesting presentations by Wim van der Poel, Helen Esser and Marjolein Bruijning. Congratulations again to Nina for winning the Call for Institutional Collaboration! 🥳

Very interesting lecture on paleoecology and island biodiversity by Sandra Nogué for our IBED Seminars on Thursday!

Yesterday I was at the bsky.app/profile/scientistrebellion.nl documentary screening on civil disobedience, and Fabian Dablander (@fdabl.bsky.social) and Eileen Enderle leaded a very interesting discussion! 🌍

I'm very happy and proud that we have ended the year with two very interesting IBED seminars: my former supervisor Prof. Michael Bruen from University College Dublin on decision support tools and Prof. Luuk Dorren from Berner Fachhochschule on hazard risk management.

After a long meeting at IBED, the PE&RC PhD Council went to Oceaan for the well deserved annual Christmas dinner. Happy holidays everyone! 🎄🎁🎆

On Friday, January 26th, Giuditta Beretta will defend her PhD thesis entitled "Surviving the Greenhouse: Thrips, Biocontrol, Antipredator Behaviours and Plant-mediated Interactions". The ceremony will be held at De Aula in Amsterdam at 11am. Good luck! 🕷️

Jord Muffels, MSc. student UvA Faculty of Science, has created an e-learning tool "Getting rid of barriers" to help lecturers make their teaching material accessible to all! If you'd like to check it out: rise.articulate.com/share/2fUtJWAh…

The UvA Amsterdam has opened a fund to provide assistance in Gaza. You can read more about it and donate here: medewerker.uva.nl/en/executive-s…

And we're off to a good start! Plenty of Ecosystem & Landscape Dynamics (ELD) department members at the #NAC2024 🌍

Congratulations Dr. Nina ! 🥳 Eileen Enderle and I are very proud paranymphs 💛🌴

Two weeks ago, I attended the IAP 2024 Conference at the Politecnico di Torino and got to present parts of my PhD project. And what a nice surprise it was, to run into the legend Lukas Podolski in front of my hotel!