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Valentina Erastova

@erastova.bsky.social
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Chancellor Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh; Molecular modelling of minerals and materials, research in the origin of life and astrobiology - erastova.xyz; Editorial Board of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🚀New PhD Opportunity!🧑‍🎓 I am excited to announce a project on the molecular-scale ageing of biochar starting Sept 2025. 🌍International applicants welcome! Please RT/Share with your students www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Molecular‑scale ageing of biochar in soils: evolution of functionality, performance, and implications for carbon credits at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Molecular‑scale ageing of biochar in soils: evolution of functionality, performance, and implications for carbon credits at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
One must change the timezone by >5h for it to be
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Nice to start the year with a paper published from a collaboration started last year with Mehdi Ghasemi, supported by Clay Minerals Group of the @minersoc.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Molecular Insights into Caprock Integrity of Subsurface Hydrogen Storage: Perspective on Hydrogen-Induced Swelling and Mechanical Response
The geological storage of hydrogen (H2) requires reliable long-term caprock sealing, yet the nanoscale interactions between H2 and clay minerals remain critically underexplored, despite their importan...
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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Submitting your paper mid December
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Martina Preiner @preinerin.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Group's 1st paper out! CONGRATS to Delfina Pereira & all coauthors: Xiulan Xie, Kerstin Volz, Jürgen Belz @unimarburg.bsky.social, Sarah Stewart & Valentina @erastova.bsky.social, Tuğçe Beyazay, Harun Tüysüz @imdeamaterials.bsky.social, Nicole Paczia & Zainab Subrati @mpimicrobiomarburg.bsky.social
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
👨‍🎓#PhD in my group @edinburghchem.bsky.social via E5 DTP Nature-Inspired and Computationally-Informed Design of #Clay-#Biochar Systems for Heavy Metal Remediation 🌍 Supervised by Margaret Graham, Ondrej Masek & Valentina Erastova Apply: e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item... Deadline: 14 Dec 2025
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Project | E5 Doctoral Training Partnership | E5 Doctoral Training Partnership
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
🌍👨‍🎓#PhD: Design of #Biochar for #Sequestration of Emerging Pollutants via E5 DTP @edinburghchem.bsky.social Supervised by Valentina Erastova and Ondrej Masek Apply: e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item... Deadline: Sun 14 Dec 2025
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Project | E5 Doctoral Training Partnership | E5 Doctoral Training Partnership
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Having missed Andrey Kalinichev’s talks this summer at both Goldschmidt and International Clay Conference due to overlap of our parallel sessions, it is great to finally catch up at small but scientifically charged @cecamevents.bsky.social in Vienna @bokuvienna.bsky.social
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Talk at @cecamevents.bsky.social at @bokuvienna.bsky.social by recently defended Dr Hannah Pollak on ClayCode - software she developed during her PhD at @edinburghchem.bsky.social Download from: github.com/Erastova-group/ClayCode Paper: doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.4c00987
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Another successful PhD viva in the group 🍾 Congratulations Dr Hannah Pollak!
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Photo tax of a very happy and proud supervisor
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Extra special day in the group @edinburghchem.bsky.social y’day Congratulations to Dr Audrey Ngambia🎓 for a brilliant PhD defence! Thank you for joining my group & trusting me as very new PI that we can make these pesky biochar models - we did it thanks to your dedication and hard work🍾
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Congratulations to our PgT students of @edinburghchem.bsky.social for completing their studies! I am extra happy to see that students undertaking #compchem projects - Yifei and Samuel (our group) - have won awards for best taught part and best project talk! 🏆🥳
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Yesterday we were visited by Ellen Porter, Commissioning Editor of Philosophical Transactions A of the @royalsocietypublishing.org, to discuss real hurdles of #publishing in #science with our #PhD & #PostDoc at @edinburghchem.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Excellent informative talk by Sarah Stewart about her PhD work at the International Clay Conference in Dublin @cmg-minsoc.bsky.social @minersoc.bsky.social
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The excellent hybrid set up at @cecamevents.bsky.social HQ allows us to start day 3 with a fascinating talk about #biochar plastic phases by Rob Johnson from University of Hawaii who is 12h earlier than us
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
A must have when in switzerland 🫕
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Very interesting and important work presented by Audrey Ngambia on developing #porous #biochar #models and #CO2 capture. Very lucky to be her supervisor😊
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Manuel Garcia-Perez kicking off the second day of #biochar #modelling workshop @cecamevents.bsky.social www.cecam.org/workshop-det...
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Great end of day one of our workshop - many new connections were made. What a pleasure to bring together scientists in the field of #biochar - experimentalists, engineers and modellers.
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We had a fantastic day of talks and discussions at @cecamevents.bsky.social HQ - great facilities to support productive meetings and interactions!
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CECAM @cecamevents.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The workshop "Advancing biochar molecular models – from experiments to model construction and application" has started in Lausanne! After a short welcome by CECAM and the organisers, V. Sierra Jimenez, C. M. Grottola & P. Giudicianni have kicked off today's program. ➡️ www.cecam.org/workshop-det...
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Ready to start our @cecamevents.bsky.social workshop on #biochar #modeling www.cecam.org/workshop-det...
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Final day of our team on @theukca.bsky.social Iceland trip. Thanks to Pam for amazing videos! www.instagram.com/reel/DKNDlYw...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 25/05/2025
Nature’s careers team spoke to a dozen scientists who have been laid off from US federal agencies and from universities because of federal funding cuts in the past two months. #Academicsky 🧪
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#OpenToWork: how laid-off US scientists are coping with shattered careers
Unemployed researchers face some tough career choices as they flood the job market after the Trump administration’s cuts to science.
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Another day in Iceland in a video - Thanks Pam for making these memories for us! www.instagram.com/reel/DKDBluT...
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Another day from @theukca.bsky.social Iceland trip www.instagram.com/reel/DJ46gJG...
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I have a badge and, therefore, I am working
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Another day video of @theukca.bsky.social Iceland expedition, made by crafty Pam www.instagram.com/reel/DJv33ri...
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Home 🖤
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
After a fantastic week in Iceland with @theukca.bsky.social it is time to head home
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Suddenly found yourself wanting to build a snowman in May? Sure thing - welcome to northern Iceland ☃️ where you can do it in day light 24h a day!
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Off the beaten track onto þjóðfell for permafrost samples with @tastrobiologist.bsky.social ⛏️🗻 Our last day in Iceland on @theukca.bsky.social trip, next group arrives on Monday
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Absolutely delicious glacier water from Fornastaðafjall
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
In the lab again
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Another great day sampling with @tastrobiologist.bsky.social and Pam @theukca.bsky.social ⛏️
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Productive day collecting clays on prebiotic Earth. Inevitably left a couple of foot prints for astrobiologists of the future
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Another hard day at the office. Starting the Iceland trip with @theukca.bsky.social
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
My bestest friend 🖤
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Still a few places left on our workshop in June!
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
When in Limpopo, it is essential to take 🦟antimalarials🍹 daily
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Testing of this pond was also on schedule for the evening. Oddly, there were many more volunteers ⛱️
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Been sent into a pond for water testing. No crocs🐊 here, just turtles🐢 (at least they said so).
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Someone is always watching you in savannah
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Wizard level of hiding 🦒🌳
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
If anyone is wondering - team @edinburghchem.bsky.social is here to work, even if it looks like a holiday retreat and the conference is like a wedding venue
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Wearing off my [whole one hour of] jet lag in J’burgh
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Valentina Erastova @erastova.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Team @edinburghchem.bsky.social touristing around rights after landing in Johannesburg
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