Working Group 2: JUNIOR MEMBERS

IAU Executive Committee Junior Members Working Group Meeting (ECWG 2)

SOC:

Camilo Delgado-Correal, Hannah R Stacey, Anupam Bhardwaj, Hongwei Ge, Brianna Marie Smart, Sabine Thater, Jeremy James Tregloan-Reed, Stefan Wallner, Mustafa Kursad Yildiz

Rationale

The Working Group (WG) of IAU Junior Members (JMs) focuses on topics that are crucial to early career astronomers across the globe. This includes careers, teaching, mobility, wellbeing, financial security, transparency and diversity. JMs represent the majority of active astronomers worldwide, which represent the future of the field, but also provide an invaluable influx of skilled workers to all branches of society. For more information about us, we invite you to visit our homepage: https://www.iau.org/science/scientific_bodies/working_groups/310/

We will hold sessions on several aspects of interest to junior members:

– Mental health management; time management; work-life balance
– Writing effective grant proposals; selling your research for impact
– Improving scientific writing skills: Theory and observations.
– Public engagement in astronomy; communicating your research to the public

Topics: Scientific/grant writing, Outreach, Mental Health, Early Career Researchers

You can learn more about the work of this Working Group at this website https://iau.org/science/scientific_bodies/working_groups/310/