Earth and Planetary Science

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Maria Gritsevich has been appointed Associate Editor in Earth and Planetary Science (ISSN: 2810-9732).

Dr. Maria Gritsevich is a Senior Scientist at the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI). Prior to coming to FGI, she was appointed as an university researcher at the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, as a Senior Scientist at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, at the Ural Federal University and at the Russian Academy of Sciences. She has also worked as a research fellow at the European Space Agency (ESA/ESTEC, with an international ESA fellowship granted to only one researcher a year). She obtained her M.Sc. degree (with high honors) at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University (2007), where in the following two years she also completed her Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics. She gained crucial research experience by joining international collaborative projects, such as FP7 RASTAS SPEAR "RAdiation-Shapes Thermal protection investigAtionS for high-SPeed EArth Re-entry", and EuroPlaNet. In 2016 she obtained the title of docent (Adj. Prof.) in planetary sciences at the University of Helsinki. An asteroid (14345) Gritsevich is named after her. She was awarded the Gold Medal for young scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2010.