Free Online Learning For Climate Education: Eric Steinberger

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In 2019, Eric Steinberger acted upon the frustrations he encountered when searching for digestible, entry-point resources on climate change and its solutions. Together with Isabel Key, he founded ClimateScience--a platform that took its first steps on Instagram. A couple of months after launch, the ClimateScience page went from a few hundred followers to over 40,000, and from there, began expanding exponentially; reaching audiences of over 1 million from diverse demographics and moving from a team comprised of a handful of people to one having over 500 staff and volunteers.

In this episode, Eric talks about his two-year journey as CEO of ClimateScience. Eric also shares about his unconventional background, early discovery of online learning, and the dedicated team that has accelerated the platform's mission and vision to provide universally accessible climate education for all.

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Guest Bio

Eric Steinberger is currently the CEO and co-founder of ClimateScience. Before leading ClimateScience full time, he worked at Facebook AI as a deep reinforcement learning researcher, at MIT as an AI researcher for sustainable development in agriculture, and at Technische Universität Wien as a student researcher in robotics. He has published two academic papers on Artificial intelligence.

Eric attended the University of Cambridge for a year to study Computer Science but stepped away from the degree to focus on ClimateScience and acting on his passions for Artificial Intelligence, start-ups, and sustainable development.

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