🌍 Fifty People Changing the World that the World Needs to Know About

Each year, the EC50 recognizes fifty extraordinary people who are doing remarkable work to promote science and exploration, and reflects the great diversity of individuals on the cutting edge of exploration around the world.

✨ I am deeply honored to be selected as part of the Explorers Club 50, Class of 2026. To be included among such an inspiring and diverse group of explorers, scientists, and changemakers is a genuine privilege.

🤝 This recognition is not an individual achievement. It reflects a collective effort, the teams, communities, mentors, and partners I have worked with across the world, often in some of the most remote and vulnerable regions on Earth.

🧭 Exploration has always been part of my identity, but over time it has also come with a responsibility: to bring knowledge back from the field, to connect science with society, and to stay the course in the fight against climate change, even when progress feels slow or uncertain.

🙏 I am especially grateful to Nina Adjanin for nominating me, and for her work, trust and support. I also wish to thank The Explorers Club for this recognition and for the community it represents.

🧊 For me, this selection is above all an encouragement, a signal that the cryosphere, often distant and invisible, truly matters. It strengthens my commitment to help make the UNESCO Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences a meaningful turning point: one where the work of scientists is not only recognized, but heard, trusted, and translated into action at the scale the science demands.

🌱 I am proud to join the EC50 community and inspired to stand alongside fellow awardees who believe that exploration should serve something greater than ourselves.

🔗 You can learn more about The Explorers Club and EC50 at 50.explorers.org, and check out my profile under the Class of 2026!