Teaching
Courses I teach at UCA:
- Environmental Impact & Risk Assessment (Spring 2021)
- Geodynamics & Structural Geology (Autumn 2020)
- Sediments, Stratigraphy and Hydrocarbon (Autumn 2020)
Outreach 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 2020 - Member of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Outreach Committee
- since 2020 - Member of PhD/Postdoc Representatives, Geosciences, University of Tübingen
- 2019 - Science adviser, European Union Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
- 2019 - UN Delegate, Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation, NY, USA Read more
- since 2011 - Founder of ParsQuake Project
- since 2008 - Curriculum design, teacher professional development and education research
Blogs
- 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
- 2020 - Paired teaching approach to earthquake education: a cross-country comparison between Dushanbe, Tajikistan and London, United Kingdom, EGU General Assembly Read more
- 2019 - Overcoming challenges in earthquake education: A case study from Tajikistan, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. Read more
- 2018 - Using paired teaching for earthquake education in schools, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. Read more | Download poster
- 2010 - Earthquake Emergency Education in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Journal of Geoscience Education Download PDF