Outreach and service
I enjoy communicating my research to different target groups, and I am actively involved in scientific outreach. I have also been accommodating scientific discussions and networking opportunities in the form of conference session and workshop organization. I focus on the scientific content, transferrable skills, a diverse representation of the speakers, and fostering an open, inviting environment for fellow scientists. You can find more details on my current and past outreach activities and other professional roles below
Current roles
NASA’s Venus Exploration Analysis Group (VExAG) Steering Committee
Member of ESA/NASA’s EnVision mission: Radio Science Experiment team
‘Venus Seismicity’ ISSI team member
Outreach activities
Published interviews
12.2022, Interviewee in a Women-in-STEM interview for GAIA (Dutch network for women in Earth Sciences): ‘Interview with dr. Anna Gülcher‘
Appearance in outreach media (video)
04.2022, Scientific guest in podcast episode ‘Unraveling the geologic history of Venus‘, ‘The Cosmic Cast’ podcast and YouTube channel
Peer-reviewed outreach articles
Gülcher, A. J. P. (2021) A surprisingly geologically active Venus – evidence for recent volcanic and tectonic activity. The Science Breaker, Earth and Space, DOI: 10.25250/thescbr.brk555
Gülcher, A. J. P. (2020) Evidence for a hotspot Venus – clues from mysterious coronae. Nature Astrononomy ‘behind the paper’, https://go.nature.com/30HTHYP
Authored outreach blog posts
Become the next Early Career Scientist Representative for the Geodynamics Division! EGU Geodynamics blog, 01.2021
What to expect from vEGU21: virtual General Assembly, EGU Geodynamics, 04.2021
First-time convening an EGU session? Some advice from Early Career Scientists, feature for the official EGU blog website ‘GeoLog’, 11.2020
Venus: Science! Today! EGU Geodynamics blog ’Peculiar Planets’, 09.2020
#ShareEGU20_GD: online EGU General Assembly highlights, EGU Geodynamics blog, 04.2020
Zürich: surrounded by a geologist’s playground, EGU ‘Geology in the city’ blog, 03.2020
Edited outreach blog posts
Work-life balance during a PhD, ‘The PhD Chronicles’, Ben Knight, 09.2021
The most important aspect of your PhD: supervisor-student relationship, ‘The PhD Chronicles’, Diana Avadanii, 06.2021
Finding support in a four-legged friend, ‘The PhD Chronicles’, Lori Willhite, 04.2021
First time… Publishing a paper, ‘The PhD Chronicles’, Jamie Ward, 03.2021
Should I… Do a coding-based PhD when I don’t have much experience coding? ‘The PhD Chronicles’, Dan Spencer, 02.2021
Geodynamics 101: Dynamic Topography, Fred Richards, 11.2020
Starting to teach? Here are three tips!, Menno Fraters, 06.2020
The challenges and the-perks of being academic nomads, Irene Bonati, 04.2020
The conundrum posed by data and models, Dan Bower, 10.2019
Adaption, Nicolas Coltice, 08.2019
It doesn’t work! (Asking questions about scientific software), Patrick Sanan, 07.2019
Professional service
Professional roles:
- 07.2023-07.2026, NASA’s Venus Exploration and Analysis Group (VExAG) Steering Committee member
Three-year appointment as a member of the VExAG Steering Committee - 05.2020-05.2022, European Geoscience Union (EGU) Geodynamics (GD) division: Early Career Scientist Representative,
Two-year appointment to represent Early Career Scientists in the EGU Geodynamics division and take an active part in the EGU Early Career Scientists Committee - 05.2019-present, EGU Geodynamics division: blog editor
- 05.2020-present, EGU Geodynamics division: social media and outreach content manager
Planetary mission involvement:
- 06.2022-present, ESA‘s EnVision mission: scientific member of EnVision’s Radio Science and Gravity Experiment (RSE) team (led by C. Dumoulin, Univ. Nantes)
Institutional responsibilities:
- 05.2020-05.2022, ETH Zürich: organiser of the 2022 Doctoral Retreat for all PhDs/Postdocs from the Department of Earth Sciences
- 09.2015-09.2016, Utrecht University: consultant to the Board of Education (Geosciences department)
Full conference/workshop organisation:
- 09.2022, Ada Lovelace Workshop on Numerical Modelling of Lithosphere and Mantle 2022, Héviz, Hungary
- 09.2022, ‘Feedbacks between mantle composition, structure and evolution’ virtual mini-workshop
Session convening and chairing:
- 04.2022 EGU General Assembly (GA), session ‘Venus: models, observations, exoplant analogue‘
- 12.2022 AGU Fall Meeting, session ‘Toward an Interdisciplinary Understanding on the Structure, Composition, and Dynamic Evolution of the Lower Mantle‘
- 05.2022 EGU General Assembly (GA), session ‘Deformation processes from grain- to planetary-scales: experiments, observations, and models’
- 05.2022 EGU GA, short course ‘Meet the EGU journal editors’
- 12.2021 AGU Fall Meeting, session ‘Interdisciplinary perspectives on intraplate magmatism, mantle plumes, and the deep Earth: both past and present’
- 09.2021 Europlanet Science Congress, session ‘Venus Science and Exploration’
- 07.2021 Goldschmidt conference, session ‘Ancient mantle heterogeneities through time: observations to modelling’
- 04.2021 EGU GA, session ‘From minerals to the dynamics of Earth’s interior: linking crystal chemistry, rheology, and geodynamics across the scales’
- 04.2021 EGU GA, short course ‘Meet the EGU journal editors’