After I handed in my PhD thesis at the end of August, I moved back to my home town in Germany to start a postdoctoral position at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. Funded by the Helmholtz Initiative “Earth System Knowledge Platform” (eskp.de), my responsibilities are both research and public relations work in volcanic hazards. In my future research I aim to integrate multidisciplinary datasets from volcano monitoring to inform conceptual and mathematical models that (i) shed light on pre-eruptive magmatic processes and thereby support eruption forecasting and (ii) yield quantitative hazard assessments. New projects include the application of drones in volcano monitoring to obtain novel data sets that support our modelling and hazard forecasts. I literally got my dream job and NEMOH played a big part in that!

2 weeks ago, I passed my PhD viva with minor corrections. I will therefore graduate in February - together with Julie, who succesfully passed her viva on the 15th of November. It’s NEMOH graduation day in Bristol! :)