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Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards 2024 Anne Glerum

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Anne Glerum

Anne Glerum
Anne Glerum

GD Geodynamics

The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Anne Glerum for her contributions in geodynamics, including providing new insight in the East African rift system, methodological advancement of geodynamic modelling techniques, and outstanding community service.

The 2024 Geodynamics Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Anne Glerum for her significant contributions to the field of geodynamics, including her work that increased our understanding of the East African rift system, the methodological advancement of geodynamic modelling techniques, and her outstanding community service.

Anne Glerum is one of the few scientists who manages to achieve excellence in both numerical method development and its geodynamical applications. Her impressive publication record highlights an exceptionally broad scientific expertise covering major geodynamic research themes, including fault network evolution, rift tectonics, lithosphere deformation, mantle convection, surface processes, and the formation of mineral deposits. In each of those fields, her research has made a significant scientific impact. For example, her work on the dynamics of the East African rift system highlights the important role of heterogeneities in plate strength in the rotation of microplates, thereby resolving a 40-year-old controversy.

Glerum also plays a major active role in the development of the geodynamics community and inspires the next generation of geoscientists. She offers her numerical expertise as a principal developer of the open-source geodynamics code ASPECT, always ready to provide help and support to the rest of the ASPECT community. She taught and supervised numerous undergraduate and postgraduate students at Utrecht and Potsdam University and at modelling workshops. In addition, she has been serving the EGU community as editor of the Geodynamics blog and organiser of a number of short courses. All of these achievements make Anne Glerum a very worthy recipient of the Geodynamics Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist award.