Outreach and service
I enjoy communicating my research to different target groups, and I am actively involved in scientific outreach. I am also accommodating scientific discussions and networking opportunities in the form of conference session chairing 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
ESA/NASA’s EnVision mission – Radio Science Experiment team collaborator
‘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
(03.2023) Interviewed for, and quoted in, the Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung article ‘Lava für die Liebesgöttin‘
(03.2023) Expert opinion quote in National Geographic article ‘Venus is volcanically alive, stunning new find shows‘
(02.2023) Feature in blog post ‘Women claim their space in science and encourage you to do the same!‘, European Geoscience Union
(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
(03.2023) The first observational evidence for a volcanically active Venus, EGU Geodynamics blog ‘Peculiar Planets’
(01.2021) Be the next Early Career Scientist Representative for the Geodynamics Division! EGU Geodynamics blog
(04.2021)What to expect from vEGU21: virtual General Assembly, EGU Geodynamics
(11.2020)First-time convening an EGU session? Some advice from Early Career Scientists, feature for ‘GeoLog’ blog
(09.2020) Venus: Science! Today! EGU Geodynamics blog ’Peculiar Planets’
(04.2020) #ShareEGU20_GD: online EGU General Assembly highlights, EGU Geodynamics blog
(03.2020)Zurich: surrounded by a geologist’s playground, EGU ‘Geology in the city’ blog
Edited outreach blog posts
(09.2021) Work-life balance during a PhD, ‘The PhD Chronicles’, Ben Knight
(06.2021)The most important aspect of your PhD: supervisor-student relationship, ‘The PhD Chronicles’, Diana Avadanii
(04.2021) Finding support in a four-legged friend, ‘The PhD Chronicles’, Lori Willhite
(03.2021) First time… Publishing a paper, ‘The PhD Chronicles’, Jamie Ward
(02.2021) Should I… Do a coding-based PhD when I don’t have much experience coding? ‘The PhD Chronicles’, Dan Spencer
(11.2020) Geodynamics 101: Dynamic Topography, Fred Richards
(06.2020) Starting to teach? Here are three tips!, Menno Fraters
(04.2020) The challenges and the-perks of being academic nomads, Irene Bonati
(10.2019) The conundrum posed by data and models, Dan Bower
(08.2019) Adaption, Nicolas Coltice
(07.2019) It doesn’t work! (Asking questions about scientific software), Patrick Sanan
Highlights
Professional service
Planetary mission involvement
- (03.2023-present) NASA‘s VERITAS mission: scientific collaborator (led by S. Smrekar, JPL)
- (06.2022-present) ESA‘s EnVision mission: scientific collaborator of Radio Science and Gravity Experiment (RSE) team (led by C. Dumoulin, Univ. Nantes)
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 European Geoscience Union - (05.2019-01.2023) EGU Geodynamics division: blog editor
- (05.2020-01.2023) EGU Geodynamics division: social media and outreach content manager
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
- (03.2023) LPSC, session ‘Venus: Mantles, Lithospheres, Atmospheres, Oh My!‘
- (04.2022) EGU General Assembly, 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, session ‘Deformation processes from grain- to planetary-scales: experiments, observations, and models’
- (05.2022) EGU General Assembly, 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 General Assembly, session ‘From minerals to the dynamics of Earth’s interior: linking crystal chemistry, rheology, and geodynamics across the scales’
- (04.2021) EGU General Assembly, short course ‘Meet the EGU journal editors’