I am a Scientific Coordinator in PIK’s directors team.
My responsibilities include:
Personel management:
- Hiring, extensions, transfers, rebookings of 59 Executive Team employees (Johan's team, Ottmar's team, WiMa, Press, PU)
- Hiring, extensions, transfers, rebookings of 29 Earth Resilience Science Unit (ERSU) employees incl. 25 guest contracts
- Feedback meetings for staff
Project Management:
- Coordinate, budgeting, reporting, project extensions and questions relating to the 15 Executive Team projects including the Policy Unit (donations, Planet Prize Jury, Tyler Prize etc)
- Coordinate, budgeting, reporting, project extensions and questions relating to the 8 ERSU projects (EU, DFG BMBF projects, PB-Tip)
- Supporting with new proposals (projects and travel funding) e.g., DFG, ERC Synergy, BMFTR
UNFCCC Coordination (COP etc):
- Badge nominations
- Side event nominations
- Paper submission
Meeting organisation and moderation:
- For ERSU theme leads and leads, Johan Rockström's team, REPP, PB-Tip, Executive Team leaders and Executive Team
- Communication with Science Management, Ottmar Edenhofer's team, Policy Unit, Press/Communications team
Stakeholder engagement:
- donors
- Funding agencies
- other scientific coordinators
Event Planning:
- PB-Tip Workshop
- ERSU Science Day
- GTPC27- project manager- coordinating the organising committee, fundraising, managing key partners, venue scouting, catering
PIK Executive Team and ERSU related agreements/contracts:
- Donations
- Grant agreements
- Partnerships/Cooperation agreement
- MoUs
- memberships
Other:
- Travel requests
- Other purchases
- Audit
Department
Contact
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
T +49 (0)331 288 20905
Elodie.Kendall[at]pik-potsdam.de
P.O. Box 60 12 03
14412 Potsdam
14412 Potsdam
ORCID
Career:
- 2015-2019: PhD in Seismology (University College London), supervisors: Ana Ferreira, Manuele Faccenda
- 2019-2020: Teaching Fellow in Geophysics (University College London)
- 2020-2023: Postdoc in Geodynamics (GeoForschungsZentrum), supervisors: Stephan Sobolev, Sascha Brune
- 2023-2024: Free-lance Science and Mindfulness teacher
- 2024-2025: Scientific Coordinator (GeoForschungsZentrum)
- 2025-present: Scientific Coordinator (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
Previous academic projects:
- NERC PhD
- Postdoc in ERC MEET
- Coordinator in ESA FLAG Project
- Royal Society, London in 2020
- Planetarium lecture, 2024
- 2021: Computational time (1212kNPL) on HLRN (Northern German Computing Alliance) for GFZ geodynamic modelling section
- 2019: CINECA, Italy Padova Computational time: 100,000 core hours
- 2019: Short-term Scientific mission (STSM) grant
- 2018: Royal Astronomical Grant