Outreach & Professional Activities

My outreach activities range from developing educational videos and training school teachers to working closely with policymakers to inform the disaster risk reduction decision-making process and strengthen the resulting policies. Some of my activities are highlighted below.

since 2024 - EGU Outreach Committee, Chair
2021-2024 - EGU Mentoring and Outreach, Program Committee Officer
2020-2024 - EGU Outreach Committee, Member
2022 - AKMA OceanSenses Expedition, Member
2021-2022 - AGU Voices for Science (Policy track), Member
2020-2021 - Geosciences PhD/Postdoc Representatives, University of Tübingen, Member
2019 - European Union Parliament, Science adviser Read more
2019 - UN Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation, NY, USA, UN Delegate Read more
since 2011 - Founder of ParsQuake Project
since 2008 - Curriculum design, teacher professional development and education research

Blogs

2023 - How to make your geoscience communication publishable Read more
2023 - Sign up for EGU’s Mentoring Program: here’s why! Read more
2022 - A Pedagogical Dance: EGU’s Teacher-Scientist Pairing Scheme Read more
2022 - Mentoring could be just what your career needs Read more
2021 - INTEGRATE: a complete higher-education teaching package for climate science Read more
2021 - Teacher-Scientist Pairing Scheme Read more
2020 - GeoPolicy: My experience with the EGU’s science-policy pairing scheme Read more
2016 - Soil is not dirt cheap: Soils, Sustainable Development Goals, and Geomorphologists Read more
2016 - Unwind your EGU stress with a geomorphology memory game Read more
2016 - Exploring the Sustainable Development Goals at the University of Tübingen, Germany Read more

Videos

2020 - What is science for policy and how can you get involved? EGU short course Watch video
2019 - Natural Hazards: Preparing today to protect tomorrow, Oxford, UK Watch video
2016 - How to Disarm Earthquakes, TEDx, Stuttgart, Germany Watch video
2008 - Between Bulls and Mosquitoes: Earthquake education in Tajikistan, Dushanbe, Tajikistan Watch video

Outreach Publications

2021 - Using paired teaching for earthquake education in schools Download PDF
2020 - Paired teaching approach to earthquake education: a cross-country comparison between Dushanbe, Tajikistan and London, United Kingdom Download PDF
2019 - Overcoming challenges in earthquake education: A case study from Tajikistan Download PDF
2018 - Using paired teaching for earthquake education in schools Download PDF
2010 - Earthquake Emergency Education in Dushanbe, Tajikistan Download PDF

Editorial Boards

2023 - Present: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Associate Editor
2022 - Present: Geoscience Communication, Executive Editor
2021 - Present: Geoscience Communication, Associate Editor