Division awards 2021

EGU celebrates its 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist awardees, whom the community is honouring for their important contributions to the Earth, planetary, and space sciences.

Franziska A. Lechleitner

2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Franziska A. Lechleitner for her contributions to the understanding of the past climate and environment as recorded in speleothems.

Medal lecture (Tue, 20 Apr 16:45 CEST) | Acceptance video (Vimeo) | Long citation
Christine L. Batchelor

2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Christine L. Batchelor for her contributions to cryospheric sciences by her studies on glacial history and palaeo-ice sheet reconstructions.

Medal lecture (Wed, 21 Apr 11:05 CEST) | Long citation
François X. Passelègue

2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to François X. Passelègue for his outstanding research in the field of experimental rock physics and novel understanding of earthquake dynamic rupture nucleation and propagation, and frictional and ductile processes.

Medal lecture (Fri, 23 Apr 11:45 CEST) | Long citation
Giorgia Dalla Santa

2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Giorgia Dalla Santa for her outstanding research on shallow geothermal systems for building conditioning.

Medal lecture (Tue, 27 Apr 16:05 CEST) | Acceptance video (Vimeo) | Long citation
Alice Fremand

2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Alice Fremand for her major contributions towards establishing the data centre for geothermal data in Alsace (Centre de Données de Géothermie Profonde, CDGP) as a state-of-the-art research data repository.

Medal lecture (Tue, 20 Apr 11:35 CEST) | Long citation
Anna Kłos

2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Anna Kłos for her outstanding contributions to time series analysis and the application of geodetic parameters for climate research.

Medal lecture (Wed, 28 Apr 14:20 CEST) | Long citation
Mark J. Hoggard

2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Mark J. Hoggard for outstanding research in connecting observations at the Earth’s surface to its deep interior.

Medal lecture (Thu, 29 Apr 16:00 CEST) | Acceptance video (Vimeo) | Long citation
Roberto Pierdicca

2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Roberto Pierdicca for his contributions to the development of innovative methodologies that use augmented- and virtual-reality techniques to make cultural heritage digitally accessible and for environmental monitoring.

Medal lecture (Tue, 27 Apr 12:05 CEST) | Acceptance video (Vimeo) | Long citation
Louise J. Slater

2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Louise J. Slater for recognition of outstanding contributions in the field at the interface of river geomorphology and hydrology; exploring the drivers of changing flood hazard and risk over time and space.

Medal lecture (Thu, 29 Apr 13:40 CEST) | Acceptance video (Vimeo) | Long citation
Michael C. Jollands

2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Michael C. Jollands in recognition of his groundbreaking work on ionic diffusion in minerals, with wide application in determining the timescales of geological processes.

Medal lecture (Mon, 19 Apr 15:50 CEST) | Acceptance video (Vimeo) | Long citation
Matteo Giuliani

2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Matteo Giuliani for outstanding contributions to water resources research, including water management, water policy, multi-objective water reservoir operations, and coupled human-natural processes.

Medal lecture (Thu, 22 Apr 16:30 CEST) | Long citation
Maria Pregnolato

2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Maria Pregnolato for her outstanding research in the field of flood impacts, flood risk assessment, and infrastructure resilience.

Medal lecture (Thu, 22 Apr 11:18 CEST) | Acceptance video (Vimeo) | Long citation
Niklas Boers

2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Niklas Boers for outstanding developments of nonlinear techniques in atmospheric and climate sciences, in particular for extreme events, tipping points, and palaeoclimate dynamics, and leadership in the field.

Medal lecture (Fri, 23 Apr 12:13 CEST) | Acceptance video (Vimeo) | Long citation
Marilena Oltmanns

2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Marilena Oltmanns for outstanding research in the role of the oceans in the climate system.

Medal lecture (Thu, 22 Apr 15:45 CEST) | Acceptance video (Vimeo) | Long citation
William Dunn

2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to William Dunn for his outstanding contributions on understanding the morphology and driving mechanisms of Jupiter’s X-ray aurora, strong leadership in X-ray observing programs, and his generous service to outreach.

Medal lecture (Wed, 21 Apr 16:20 CEST) | Long citation
Eva P. S. Eibl

2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Eva P. S. Eibl in recognition of her transformative contributions to our ability to understand, model, and monitor volcano-, geyser- and glacier-related processes using conventional and new seismological tools.

Medal lecture (Wed, 21 Apr 11:40 CEST) | Long citation
Niels J. de Winter

2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Niels J. de Winter for his outstanding research on the application of µXRF analyses on biominerals to reconstruct palaeo-seasonality during past greenhouse climates.

Medal lecture (Tue, 20 Apr 16:45 CEST) | Acceptance video (Vimeo) | Long citation
Lucia Fuchslueger

2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Lucia Fuchslueger for her contributions to understanding responses of soil biogeochemical cycling to global change drivers and to unravelling plant and soil microbial interactions and dependence on nutrient availability.

Medal lecture (Wed, 21 Apr 15:20 CEST) | Acceptance video (Vimeo) | Long citation