Valentina Erastova
@erastova.bsky.social
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
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
👨🎓#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
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
Project | E5 Doctoral Training Partnership | E5 Doctoral Training Partnership
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October 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
👨🎓#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
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
🌍👨🎓#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
Supervised by Valentina Erastova and Ondrej Masek
Apply: e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
Deadline: Sun 14 Dec 2025
Project | E5 Doctoral Training Partnership | E5 Doctoral Training Partnership
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October 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🌍👨🎓#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
Supervised by Valentina Erastova and Ondrej Masek
Apply: e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...
Deadline: Sun 14 Dec 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
September 25, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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
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
Download from: github.com/Erastova-group/ClayCode
Paper: doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.4c00987
September 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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
Download from: github.com/Erastova-group/ClayCode
Paper: doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.4c00987
Another successful PhD viva in the group 🍾 Congratulations Dr Hannah Pollak!
September 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Another successful PhD viva in the group 🍾 Congratulations Dr Hannah Pollak!
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🍾
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🍾
September 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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🍾
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🍾
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! 🏆🥳
September 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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! 🏆🥳
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
September 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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
Excellent informative talk by Sarah Stewart about her PhD work at the International Clay Conference in Dublin @cmg-minsoc.bsky.social @minersoc.bsky.social
July 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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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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.
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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...
June 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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...
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...
Ready to start our @cecamevents.bsky.social workshop on #biochar #modeling
www.cecam.org/workshop-det...
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June 4, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Ready to start our @cecamevents.bsky.social workshop on #biochar #modeling
www.cecam.org/workshop-det...
www.cecam.org/workshop-det...
Final day of our team on @theukca.bsky.social Iceland trip. Thanks to Pam for amazing videos!
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May 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Final day of our team on @theukca.bsky.social Iceland trip. Thanks to Pam for amazing videos!
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Reposted by Valentina Erastova
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 🧪
#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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May 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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 🧪
Another day in Iceland in a video - Thanks Pam for making these memories for us!
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May 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Another day in Iceland in a video - Thanks Pam for making these memories for us!
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I have a badge and, therefore, I am working
May 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I have a badge and, therefore, I am working
Another day video of @theukca.bsky.social Iceland expedition, made by crafty Pam
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May 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Another day video of @theukca.bsky.social Iceland expedition, made by crafty Pam
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After a fantastic week in Iceland with @theukca.bsky.social it is time to head home
May 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
After a fantastic week in Iceland with @theukca.bsky.social it is time to head home
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!
May 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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!
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
Our last day in Iceland on @theukca.bsky.social trip, next group arrives on Monday
May 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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
Our last day in Iceland on @theukca.bsky.social trip, next group arrives on Monday
Absolutely delicious glacier water from Fornastaðafjall
May 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Absolutely delicious glacier water from Fornastaðafjall
Another great day sampling with @tastrobiologist.bsky.social and Pam @theukca.bsky.social ⛏️
May 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Another great day sampling with @tastrobiologist.bsky.social and Pam @theukca.bsky.social ⛏️
Productive day collecting clays on prebiotic Earth. Inevitably left a couple of foot prints for astrobiologists of the future
May 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Productive day collecting clays on prebiotic Earth. Inevitably left a couple of foot prints for astrobiologists of the future