6th October: EUROBIG Leadership and Career Developement Forum
EPSS, 9400 Sopron, Csatkai Endre street 6-8.
| Time | Activity |
| Welcome and opening remarks | |
| 09:40–10:00 | Sierd Cloetingh (Utrecht University, Utrecht)— Scientific leadership in international geoscience |
| 10:00–10:20 | Taras Gerya (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich) — Building impactful research programs |
| 10:20–10:40 | Bilal Haq (Sorbonne University, Paris) — Long-term scientific vision |
| 10:40–11:00 | Steve Mojzsis (Bayerisches GeoInstitut, Bayreuth) — Publishing transformative science |
| 11:00–11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30–11:50 | Hans Thybo (Editor of Earth and Planetary Science Letters) — Publishing in high-impact journals |
| 11:50–12:10 | Kristóf Porkoláb (HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, Sopron) — Early-career perspective |
| 12:10–12:30 | Márta Berkesi (HUN-REN Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science, Sopron) — Mid-career perspective and building scientific independence |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00–15:30 | Round-table discussion |
| 15:30–16:00 | Coffee break and discussions |
Round Table 1: Leadership and high-impact publishing
Round Table 2: Attracting funding opportunities and proposal writing
Round Table 3: Early career needs, opportunities, responsibilities and community service
7th October: EUROBIG Modelling Workshop on Geodynamics and Geochemical Modelling
EPSS, 9400 Sopron, Csatkai Endre street 6-8.
| Time | Activity |
| Opening remarks | |
| 09:15–10:15 | Taras Gerya (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich) — Introduction to geodynamic modeling |
| 10:15–10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30–12:30 | Taras Gerya (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich) — Excercises |
| 12:30–13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30–14:30 | Zoltán Taracsák (Cambridge University, Cambridge) — Introduction to thermodynamic models for high temperature processes |
| 14:30–15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:00–17:00 | Zoltán Taracsák (Cambridge University, Cambridge) — Excercises |
| 17:00–18:00 | General discussion and networking |
| 18:00–20:00 | Icebreaker |
Here are the pre-requirements for the Modelling Workshop:
Please bring your laptops and install the following software before the workshop, as there won’t be time for installation during the session itself:
For the Geodynamic Modelling Workshop – exercise requirements
MATLAB
For the Thermodynamic Modelling Workshop – exercise requirements
As part of the workshop, you will be running melting and crystallisation models using a recently published Python package called “petthermotools” (Gleeson et al. 2026 – https://www.jvolcanica.org/ojs/index.php/volcanica/article/view/483), which allows for relatively easy use of different MELTS models (and also MAGEMin, if you’re able to install it successfully).
It would be great if you could all pre-install and test petthermotools in Python beforehand, so you can make the most of the two-hour timeslot for running the models.
Instructions for installing petthermotools are available here: https://petthermotools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
You’ll be running the models using MELTS, so if (like Zoltán) you’re unsuccessful in installing MAGEMin within petthermotools, that’s not a problem.
After running the various models in Python, you will combine the thermodynamic modelling results with trace element partitioning models. The code for these calculations will be written in R, so it would also be useful to have R (and an IDE such as RStudio) installed.
You can download the most recent version of R here: https://cran.r-project.org/
And RStudio here: https://posit.co/downloads
Zoltán Taracsák will send further instructions and files closer to the start of the workshop.
If you run into any installation issues, feel free to get in touch with him at zt265@cam.ac.uk. He will be in Sopron throughout the workshop, so you can troubleshoot any issues in person before the practical session.
Program/organizing Committee:
Pietro Sternai, Sierd Cloetingh, Taras Gerya, Szilvia Kövér, István Kovács, Eszter Boros