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Important updates indeed

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It's been such a long time, and so much has happened, as it always does, and it is definitely time for an update:

  • I've turned bionic (new left hip joint!), which was totally worth it, as I am now pain-free for the first time in five years or so. I can do field work normally again and the mountainbiking is great!
  • We have already published two Geology papers this year (Hou et al., and Fusseis et al.), with a third - Gilgannon et al. - in review, and a few other, really cool papers are in the pipeline.
  • The field-skills-people (which includes myself) have run two very good field camps with students in Spain and Inchnadamph.
  • The 4D imaging team had a great EGU meeting in Vienna, where I feel our work was very well received, AND
  • The same group has now dispersed into different corners of the UK (Damien at DLS/Manchester, James in Glasgow) and the continent (Roberto in Florence), with only EIlidh, Ian and myself left in Edinburgh for the moment.
  • We have started a collaboration with the French Synchrotron SOLEIL's PSICHÈ beamline, to make Heitt Mjölnir available for general users there.

But more change is abound, as the most important news is that I will be leaving Edinburgh in mid-September to take up a new post as a Professor in Applied Structural Geology in Germany. This has been several years in the making, really, in a sense that I've become increasingly restless and was open for change, but now everything is moving very rapidly and I will start teaching on the continent in October. I feel that after >10 years in Edinburgh, it is now a good time for a move, especially as there are fresh opportunities, new colleagues with new ideas, more room (literally) to develop our research and a great funding environment. We all (i.e. Edinburgh 4D imaging) agree that this is more a spreading out than a disbanding, and I am very happy that Berit will join me from Bern to become my assistant in Germany, which will also be a great opportunity to develop her own research and teaching.

Important updates indeed / Dr Florian Fusseis by blogadmin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0
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