EGU announces the 2025 awards and medals!
14 November 2024
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) has named the 49 recipients of next year’s Union Medals and Awards, Division Medals, and Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards. These individuals are honoured for their important contributions to the Earth, planetary and space sciences. They will be celebrated during the EGU General Assembly 2025, which will be held from 27 April – 2 May.
The following individuals will receive 2025 Union Medals and Awards:
| Sachchida Nand Tripathi | Alexander von Humboldt Medal |
|---|---|
| Trevor John McDougall | Alfred Wegener Medal |
| Mariana Madruga de Brito | Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| Renelle Dubosq | Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| Brice Noël | Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| Frederik Kratzert | Arne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists |
| Paul Tackley | Arthur Holmes Medal |
| Claudia Jesus-Rydin | Champion(s) for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award |
| Raymond Pierrehumbert | Jean Dominique Cassini Medal |
| Heather Handley | Katia and Maurice Krafft Award |
The following individuals will receive 2025 Division Medals:
| Neil M. Ribe | Augustus Love Medal |
|---|---|
| Francesco Soldovieri | Christiaan Huygens Medal |
| Tatiana Ilyina | Fridtjof Nansen Medal |
| Heather Marie Stoll | Hans Oeschger Medal |
| Jan Seibert | Henry Darcy Medal |
| Lesley Wyborn | Ian McHarg Medal |
| Donald Ross Prothero | Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal |
| Paolo D'Odorico | John Dalton Medal |
| Shin Sugiyama | Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal |
| Richard Horne | Julius Bartels Medal |
| Vincenzo Carbone | Lewis Fry Richardson Medal |
| Zhengyu Liu | Milutin Milanković Medal |
| Nils Olsen | Petrus Peregrinus Medal |
| Wulf Amelung | Philippe Duchaufour Medal |
| Annegret Henriette Thieken | Plinius Medal |
| Christopher D. Clark | Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal |
| Trevor Russell Ireland | Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal |
| Cathy Quantin Nataf | Runcorn-Florensky Medal |
| Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano | Sergey Soloviev Medal |
| Heidrun Kopp | Stephan Mueller Medal |
| René Forsberg | Vening Meinesz Medal |
| Ulrike Lohmann | Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal |
| Corinne Le Quéré | Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal |
The following individuals will receive 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards:
| Dominik Stolzenburg | Atmospheric Sciences (AS) Division |
|---|---|
| Getachew Agmuas Adnew | Biogeosciences (BG) Division |
| Kai Kornhuber | Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL) Division |
| Marthe Klöcking | Earth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) Division |
| Carolina Giorgetti | Earth Magnetism & Rock Physics (EMRP) Division |
| Iman Rahimzadeh Kivi | Energy, Resources and the Environment (ERE) Division |
| Renée Jade Tamblyn | Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (GMPV) Division |
| Matthias Schartner | Geodesy (G) Division |
| Iris van Zelst | Geodynamics (GD) Division |
| Jana Eichel | Geomorphology (GM) Division |
| Johannes Jakob Lohmann | Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences (NP) Division |
| Jens Terhaar | Ocean Sciences (OS) Division |
| Shangchun Teng | Planetary and Solar System Sciences (PS) Division |
| Brandon Paul VanderBeek | Seismology (SM) Division |
| Katerina Georgiou | Soil System Sciences (SSS) Division |
| Karin Dissauer | Solar-Terrestrial Sciences (ST) Division |
This year the EGU Awards Committee received 183 eligible nominations, approximately 34% of which were for female nominees and 0.5% were for non-binary nominees, although it must be noted that the gender of nominees is only assumed and not confirmed. 41% of this year’s awardees are female. For more information about the awards above, including a full list of the various award panel judges, application and selection criteria and how to apply, please visit the Awards & Medals page.
In addition to the Union and Division Awards and Medals, the EGU also bestows a number of awards to students taking part in its annual General Assembly. These Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Awards aim to further improve the overall quality of poster and PICO presentations and foster students’ excitement to present their research at a large scientific conference. The list of recipients of the 2024 OSPP Awards is now available online. For more information about the OSPP awards, including application criteria and how to apply in 2025, please visit the OSPP page.
Contact
Marian Holness
Chair of the EGU Awards Committee
Email awards.medals@egu.eu
Hazel Gibson
EGU Head of Communications
Email communications@egu.eu
Links
- EGU Awards and Medals
- Proposal and Selection of Candidates
- Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation Awards