Europlanet Early Career Network (EPEC)
February 14, 2024

EXPLORE – Career Profiles Europlanet’s sister-project, EXPLORE, has been funded by the European Commission to develop Machine Learning and advanced visualisation tools to support the astronomy and planetary communities. One […]

Europlanet Early Career Network (EPEC)
December 31, 2023

EXPLORE Career Profiles Name: Lian GreijnEXPLORE Project Role: Intern Professional Role and Affiliation: Intern at Acri-ST & MSc student Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft Nationality: Dutch Current location: Toulouse, France. 1. What did you […]

Europlanet Early Career Network (EPEC)
December 31, 2023

EXPLORE Career Profiles Name: Giacomo NodjoumiEXPLORE Project Role: Co-leader of the development of L-EXPLO and L-HEX Lunar Scientific Data Applications Professional Role and Affiliation: PhD Candidate, Constructor University Nationality: Italian Current location: Bremen, Germany. […]

Europlanet Early Career Network (EPEC)
December 31, 2023

EXPLORE Career Profiles Name: Javier Eduardo Suárez ValenciaEXPLORE Project Role: Researcher on the L-EXPLO and L-HEX Lunar Scientific Data Applications Professional Role and Affiliation: PhD Candidate in Planetary Science at Constructor University. […]

Europlanet Early Career Network (EPEC)
December 5, 2023

Europlanet Expert Exchanges – Call Now Open A new call has been launched for the Expert Exchange Programme, funded through Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure (RI), which aims to share expertise […]

Europlanet Early Career (EPEC) Network

The Europlanet Early Career (EPEC) network is organised by early-career researchers, for early-career researchers, and includes volunteers from across the Europlanet international community. The EPEC network is open to all students, doctoral candidates and early-career planetary scientists and space professionals whose last degree (e.g. MSc or PhD) was obtained a maximum of 7 years ago (excluding parental leave, serious illness and similar delays).

One of the main objectives of EPEC is to form a strong network between young professionals by organising early-career-relevant events and by engaging in different projects amongst the different working groups (see website for more details on working groups). Furthermore, the EPEC community aims to bring a young voice into Europlanet Society to shape the future of planetary and space sciences and engineering.

EPEC was officially launched during EPSC 2017 in Riga.

Check out the latest EPEC news and activities.

Get involved with EPEC!

The EPEC Committee and the nine EPEC Working Groups are constantly looking for interested early-career professionals who are willing to spend some of their academic time with the organising elements of various EPEC activities. By getting involved with the EPEC Committee or one of the Working Groups, you not only get a chance to build a diverse professional network across Europe and abroad, but also build important soft-skills such as leadership qualities and management experience by working with a very friendly and energetic community. 

You can also get involved in EPEC via the Early-Career Officers of your Europlanet Society Regional Hub.

For any questions and enquiries, and interest to join us in building a stronger early career network, please contact epec.network@gmail.com

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Europlanet Early Career Network (EPEC) News
— February 14, 2024

EXPLORE – Career Profiles Europlanet’s sister-project, EXPLORE, has been funded by the European Commission to develop Machine Learning and advanced visualisation tools to support the astronomy and planetary communities. One […]


— December 31, 2023

EXPLORE Career Profiles Name: Lian GreijnEXPLORE Project Role: Intern Professional Role and Affiliation: Intern at Acri-ST & MSc student Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft Nationality: Dutch Current location: Toulouse, France. 1. What did you […]


— December 31, 2023

EXPLORE Career Profiles Name: Giacomo NodjoumiEXPLORE Project Role: Co-leader of the development of L-EXPLO and L-HEX Lunar Scientific Data Applications Professional Role and Affiliation: PhD Candidate, Constructor University Nationality: Italian Current location: Bremen, Germany. […]


— December 31, 2023

EXPLORE Career Profiles Name: Javier Eduardo Suárez ValenciaEXPLORE Project Role: Researcher on the L-EXPLO and L-HEX Lunar Scientific Data Applications Professional Role and Affiliation: PhD Candidate in Planetary Science at Constructor University. […]


— December 5, 2023

Europlanet Expert Exchanges – Call Now Open A new call has been launched for the Expert Exchange Programme, funded through Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure (RI), which aims to share expertise […]


— October 11, 2023

EPEC Profiles – Jessica Hogan In this series from the EPEC Communication Working Group, we meet members of the Europlanet Early Career (EPEC) community and find out more about their experiences […]


— September 12, 2023

Results of Europlanet Society Committee Funding Scheme 2023 The results have been announced of a call by the Europlanet Society to support funding proposals of €1000 to €5000 from its Regional […]


— August 16, 2023

Issue 5 of the Europlanet Magazine is out now! In this issue: In Focus A round up of news from Europlanet and the planetary community, including ESA’s JUICE Mission – Making History […]


— August 13, 2023

EPEC Profiles – Victor Amir Cardoso Dorneles In this series from the EPEC Communication Working Group, we meet members of the Europlanet Early Career (EPEC) community and find out more about […]


— August 10, 2023

Europlanet Summer School 2023 is Underway The Europlanet Summer School 2023 is being hosted by Vilnius University’s Moletai Astronomical Observatory (MAO) in Lithuania from 8-18 August. For the first time, […]


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