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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Meet INITIATE doctoral candidates : Alessandro Gibellini is just starting a PhD at the University of Bergen - "3D evolution of foreland fold-and-thrust belts, links between deposition, salt tectonics and climate, including orography: southern Pyrenees" supervised by Pr. Ritske Huismans

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Meet INITIATE doctoral candidates : Nimisha Anna George is just starting a PhD at the GFZ - "Mechanical, hydrogeological and thermal response of the subsurface to climate change in North Central Europe" supervised by Pr. Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth and Mauro Cacace

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Meet INITIATE doctoral candidates : John Kent Remolador is just starting a PhD at the Universität Potsdam -"Topographic signatures of mass movements in the Central Andes and Corinth Rift" supervised by Pr. Bodo Bookhagen

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Meet INITIATE doctoral candidates : Zsuzsanna Vatai is just starting a PhD at the GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung in Potsdam -"3D data-derived structural, thermal and rheological configuration of Corinth Rift system" supervised by Pr Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Meet INITIATE doctoral candidates : Kartik Sakkarwal is just starting a PhD at the Universität Potsdam -"Rates of landscape evolution and topographic signatures of mass movements in the Central Andes" supervised by Pr. Bodo Bookhagen

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Meet INITIATE doctoral candidates : Francina Saiz is just starting a PhD at the University of Bergen -"3D evolution of foreland fold-and-thrust belts, links between deposition, salt / shale tectonics and climate, including orography: southern Andes" supervised by Pr Ritske S. Huismans

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Meet INITIATE doctoral candidates : Ayishath Nida Patla is just starting a PhD at the Université de Toulouse -"3D flexural isostatic response of the African plate to Neogene climate change and/or mantle flow" supervised by Dr. Delphine Rouby and Dr. Dominique Chardon

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Meet INITIATE doctoral candidates : William Munday is just starting a PhD at the Universitat de Barcelona -"Response of the Andean foreland fold and thrust belt to spatial and temporal variations of climate and structural inheritance" supervised by Pr Josep Anton Muñoz.

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

We are looking to fill a PhD position part of the newly funded EU Doctoral Network INITIATE (www.initiate-dn.eu/index.html) DC12 : Stratigraphic signature of the 3D evolution of rift systems (Suez Rift) following the Neogene climate change Application procedure: www.initiate-dn.eu/projects.html

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Meet INITIATE doctoral candidates : Tom Garot is just starting a PhD at the Universitat de Barcelona "Contractional deformation of salt bearing rifted margins : the Western Pyrenees-Cantabrian foreland basin systems and the geological storage potential" supervised by Pr Josep Anton Muñoz.

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Meet INITIATE doctoral candidates : Christopher DiPaolo is just starting a PhD at the University of Bergen : "High-resolution sedimentary dynamics of rifts during rapid climate change : the Corinth Rift" under the supervision of Pr Robert Gawthorpe

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Wenchao Cheng is just starting a PhD at the GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung: "How does anthropogenic climate change control debris flow activities in active tectonic areas" under the supervision of Dr. Hui Tang

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Meet INITIATE doctoral candidates : Ingra Barbosa is just starting a PhD at the University of Bergen : "3D response of active rift evolution to surface processes: the Corinth Rift system, Greece" supervised by Ritske Huismans

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The last picture before everybody went back home at the end of the INITIATE first training!

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Today is the day! After 3 days of hard work and discovery of many new stakes, the doctoral candidates of INITIATE groups are finally pitching publicly their 3 consultancy startup prototypes (teklab.uib.no/event/protot...).

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Last minute touch-ups for the public pitch of the INITIATE doctoral candidate’s consultancy startup prototypes (teklab.uib.no/event/protot...).

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Thanks to Sølvi and Marcela of the Spise Sammen Kaffebar for feeding us at lunch during this week !

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Today, the doctoral candidates of INITIATE groups are hard at work on their consultancy startup prototypes under the guidance of Pr. Lars Nyre (Department of Media Studies and Information Science) before the public pitch tomorrow morning (teklab.uib.no/event/protot...).

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Today, the doctoral candidates of INITIATE are starting a 4 days introduction to the entrepreneurship given by colleagues of University of Bergen Pr. Lars Nyre (Media Studies and Information Science), Andreas Westermoen (senior adviser for innovation and research ) and Yves Aubert (senior advisor).

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This afternoon, the doctoral candidates of INITIATE are following an introduction to the environmental impact of research given by H. Haarstad and J. Dalsgård (director and communication manager of the Center for Climate and Energy Transformation).

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

To start the week, the doctoral candidates of INITIATE are following an introduction to Equalilty, Diversity and Inclusivity given by Elisabeth Müller Lysebo design to raise awareness of the future DCs into unconscious bias and accumulation of disadvantages and the importance of belonging.

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

During the weekend break, the INITIATE doctoral candidates explored the Bergen area, and the Ulriken Mountain !

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Today the INITIATE doctoral candidates are back at the University of Bergen for a 2 days introduction to 3D seismic interpretation given by Leo Zijerveld.

Nida Patla (GET-CNRS, Toulouse), Wengchao Cheng (GFZ), Kartrik Sakkarwal (U. Potsdam), William Munday (U. Barcelona), Zsuzsanna Vatai (GFZ), Francina Saiz (U. Bergen), Manel Ramos (U. Bergen), Kenneth Mangersnes (U. Bergen), Tom Garot (U. Barcelona), Leo Zijerveld (U. Bergen), William Munday (U. Barcelona), Ingra Barbosa (U. Bergen).

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This week the doctoral candidates of the INITIATE MSCA doctoral network learned sedimentary logging of cores from the Brent Group from the Oseberg area in the Norwegian North Sea at Equinor in Bergen under the supervision of William Helland-Hansen and Tor Sømme.

Manel Ramos (U. Bergen) and Ingra Barbossa (U. Bergen)

Kartik Sakkarwal (U. Potsdam) and Francina Saiz (U. Bergen)

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INITIATE Doctoral Network @initiatedn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The first meeting with (most of) the doctoral candidates of INITIATE doctoral network took place on March 3rd 2025 at the University of Bergen. More news about the training to come.

Present at the first meeting (left to right): Pablo Santolaria (U. Barcelona), Kartrik Sakkarwal (U. Potsdam), Thomas Theunissen (U. Bergen), Zsuzsanna Vatai (GFZ), Sebastian Wolf (U. Bergen), Leni Scheck-Wenderoth (GFZ), Mauro Cacace (GFZ), Hui Tang (GFZ), Delphine Rouby (GET-CNRS, Toulouse), Ritske Huismans (U. Bergen), Nida Patla (GET-CNRS, Toulouse), Bodo Bookhagen (U. Potsdam), Ingra Barbosa (U. Bergen), Francina Saiz (U. Bergen), Anne Fjellbirkeland (U. Bergen), Wengchao Cheng (GFZ), Chris DiPaolo (U. Bergen), William Munday (U. Barcelona), Jean Braun (GFZ), Tom Garot (U. Barcelona), Leo Zijerveld (U. Bergen), Elco Luijendijk (U. Bergen), Oriol Ferrer (U. Barcelona) and, online, Josep Anton Muñoz (U. Barcelona).

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