With Early Career Astronomers (ECAs) being the future of any field in Astronomy, we welcome astronomers from all career stages to our session. We target main challenges often encountered at an early stage in research: Navigating the continuously evolving academic system, obtaining job security, building a broad network, etc.

Diversity, inclusion, equity and support in your research career path are central to our session, where the emphasis lies on topics like work-life balance as an ECA, on accessibility in academia for underrepresented groups, and on overcoming the hurdles ECAs might encounter on their career paths. We aim at open, supportive and interactive dialogue during the session talks in order to give every voice a place in shaping future careers for early researchers.

For this, we welcome everyone in Astronomy who can offer insightful expertise as mentors and mentees, as advisors and as students, and contribute to the session with experience and ideas. We want to explicitly welcome any folks from minority groups in Astronomy to our session, bring insights from any situation and background, and want to give any participant a platform to ultimately improve the trajectory of ECAs.

Programme

TBA.

Invited speakers

TBA.

Scientific organisers

• Gemma González i Torà Universität Heidelberg, Germany
• Anne Inkenhaag University of Bath, UK
• Cormac Larkin Universität Heidelberg & MPIK, Germany
• Roel Lefever Universität Heidelberg, Germany
• Soheb Mandhai University of Manchester, UK
• Giovanna Pugliese University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Natascha Sattler Universität Heidelberg, Germany, chair, contact person
• Prakruti Sudarshan MPIA, Germany
• Anastasia Tzouvanou MPIA, Germany
• Jakob van den Eijnden University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Contact

Natascha Sattler: n.sattler @ stud.uni-heidelberg.de