Eva Stüeken, University of St Andrews, UK
Biography
Eva is a Reader (Associate Professor) in the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, UK. She obtained her PhD in Earth Sciences and Astrobiology at the University of Washington, Seattle, before joining the University of California Riverside as a NASA postdoctoral fellow. Her research focuses on the origin an early evolution of life on Earth and implications for constraining the habitability of other worlds. She uses a combination of field work, laboratory experiments, geochemical analyses and models to develop biosignatures and reconstruct biogeochemical cycles through Earth history.
Motivation for serving the EAG council
I am passionate about interdisciplinary science, and I enjoy working with people from diverse backgrounds to tackle new scientific challenges. As a member of the EAG council I hope to enhance interdisciplinarity, diversity and an open research culture that gives opportunities to young academics in the same way in which they were given to me. New scientific discoveries lie ahead of us, if we learn from each other, cross disciplinary and cultural boundaries and create platforms for open exchange to foster that scientific curiosity that unites us all. To this effort, I contribute several years of experience as theme chair and session chair at Goldschmidt conferences, and I look forward to expanding these and other EAG initiatives that serve and empower the geochemical community.