Shivangi is a research fellow working in the Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Mumbai, India on the geodynamo field. She did her PhD in France on the dynamo field of Jupiter and electromagnetic field of Mars, and her postdoc in UK on modelling both these fields for Ganymede for the JUICE mission. Her research focusses on using ground and satellite data in order to understand the magnetic field that originates in the interior of planetary bodies and to model these fields using spherical harmonics.
Shivangi has been actively working with IAGA’s ICEO from 2021. She volunteered to create and manage the blog page of IAGA where the community can share their research in an informal manner. The blog caters both to researchers wanting to learn more about their colleagues’ works as well as the general public interested in space, earth and planetary sciences. It also aims to encourage early career researchers’ involvement in science and outreach. She has since been the co-Chair of the ComNet (earlier Social Media) working group. She was the IAGA representative at the IUGG 2023 Berlin Assembly which she helped organise along with other IAGA members as well as members from other IUGG Associations.
Shivangi’s opinion on ECS challenges
Being an ECS herself, she feels that the most difficult challenge they face is that of job security in academics. While in Europe, a PhD is considered a job and pays fairly well, the case can be quite different for different countries. Beyond PhD, there is a constant need to look for postdocs and fellowships regularly since their duration in our field can be comparatively short (between 1 and 3 years). Particularly as a foreigner, she understands their added struggle of applying for various visas for work and attending conferences while simultaneously shifting countries for new and better opportunities.