Karin Dissauer

ST Solar-Terrestrial Sciences

The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Karin Dissauer for outstanding research in solar and extra-solar space weather research.

Karin Dissauer has become as one of the most prominent Early Career Scientists of her generation in the field of solar and extra-solar space weather research. She received her PhD in 2018 from the University of Graz, Austria and after being as postdoctoral researcher for a few years at Graz and NorthWest Research Associates (NWRA), Boulder, she was promoted as a full research scientist at the NWRA.

In her research, Dissauer has focused on analyzing the relationships between coronal dimmings and solar/stellar eruptions (coronal mass ejections and flares). Dissauer’s recent work has in particular highlighted the importance of small scale magnetic activity in the corona and chromosphere before flaring takes place and differences between flaring and non-flaring active regions. She has also developed new methods for detecting coronal dimmings by using interdisciplinary statistical approaches from other fields. Dissauer has nearly 40 papers in the refereed journals of the field and she has given invited talks. She is very activity in the scientific community, including being part of NASA/ESA mission teams and in the public outreach. Despite being in the early career phase, Dissauer is the Principal Investigator of several significant research projects and she co-leads an International Space Science Institute (ISSI) team.