Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma for his outstanding contributions in the use of satellite geodesy for Earth system science. Read more
Jeffrey T. Freymueller 2024 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2024 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Jeffrey T. Freymueller for pioneering work in geodesy with Global Navigation Satellite Systems and their application to geophysics. Read more
Mario Moreno 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Mario Moreno Ionospheric Impact on GNSS Reflectometry: A correction approach for the PRETTY satellite data Read more
Jürgen Müller 2023 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2023 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Jürgen Müller for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of modern geodesy, in particular for his scientific leadership in the field of Lunar Laser Ranging. Read more
Marius Schlaak 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Marius Schlaak Multi-decadal Satellite Gravity Mission Simulations Comparing Resolving Capabilities of a Long-term Trend in the Global Ocean Heat Content Read more
Rebekka Steffen 2023 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2023 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Rebekka Steffen for her outstanding interdisciplinary contributions on the interface of geodesy and tectonophysics. Read more
Kristel Chanard 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Kristel Chanard for outstanding contributions to the determination and understanding of Earth’s surface deformations. Read more
Oliver Pollard 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Oliver Pollard Investigating the Sensitivity of North Sea Glacial Isostatic Adjustment during the Last Interglacial to the Penultimate Deglaciation of Global Ice Sheets Read more
Peter J. G. Teunissen 2022 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2022 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Peter J. G. Teunissen for pioneering and influential work ranging from fundamental geodetic theory to breakthrough innovations in Global Navigation Satellite System modelling and precise positioning. Read more
Yosra Afrasteh 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Yosra Afrasteh New realization for European vertical reference system; a first attempt to include the Hydrodynamic Leveling data Read more
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. Read more
Christopher Jekeli 2021 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2021 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Christopher Jekeli for his pioneering work on theory, methodology, and application of geodetic measurement techniques, in particular to determine the Earth’s gravity field using spaceborne, airborne, and terrestrial sensors. Read more
Sebastian Strasser 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award The 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award is awarded to Sebastian Strasser Comparison and generalization of GNSS satellite attitude models Read more
Karina Wilgan 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Karina Wilgan for the development of new methods for the integration of GNSS delays, meteorological observations and numerical weather prediction models for applications in InSAR and GNSS. Read more
Willi Freeden 2020 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2020 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Willi Freeden for his pioneering work in combining a comprehensive mathematical theory with fundamental geodetic problems and advanced applications in Earth system sciences and global change studies. Read more
Benedikt Soja 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Benedikt Soja for original research and contributions to the fields of very long baseline interferometry and terrestrial reference frames. Read more
Christina Lück 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Christina Lück Using Swarm to derive global sea level budgets Read more
Philipp Zingerle 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Philipp Zingerle High-resolution combined global gravity field modeling: Towards a combined d/o 10800 model Read more
Tonie van Dam 2019 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2019 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Tonie van Dam for pioneering work on the deformations of the solid Earth under a variety of surface loads and on their measurements using space geodetic observation techniques. Read more
Markus Rothacher 2018 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2018 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Markus Rothacher for his pioneering work in linking geometry, rotation and gravity to space geodetic observations and subsequently enhancing the understanding of the Earth system. Read more
Saniya Behzadpour 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Saniya Behzadpour Error modeling validation of GRACE gravity data Read more
Sara Bruni 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Sara Bruni for her innovative contributions to global and regional reference-frame studies bridging the gap to other fields of geosciences, such as geodynamics. Read more
William Durkin 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to William Durkin Impact of local crustal variations and ice mass balance uncertainties on interpreting regional GIA in southeast Alaska Read more
Florian Andritsch 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Florian Andritsch Comparing tracking scenarios to LAGEOS and Etalon by simulating realistic SLR observations Read more
Isabella Velicogna 2017 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2017 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Isabella Velicogna in recognition of her pioneering and groundbreaking work on the application of time-variable gravity for ice-sheet mass balance and land-water hydrology studies. Read more
Xingxing Li 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Xingxing Li for his innovative contributions in improving the performance of precise point positioning, significantly extending the high-rate GNSS applications in geosciences. Read more
Matthias Ellmer 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Matthias Ellmer Numerically stable approach for high-precision orbit integration using Encke’s method and equinoctial elements Read more
Srinivas Bettadpur 2016 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2016 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Srinivas Bettadpur in recognition of his outstanding contributions to precise orbit determination and ocean-tide modelling, and his pioneering developments in the field of time-variable gravity field determination from satellite-to-satellite tracking data. Read more
Witold Rohm 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Witold Rohm for his innovative contributions in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) meteorology research, advancing our understanding of meteorological processes that impact on GNSS signals. Read more
Christoph Bamann 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Christoph Bamann Detector Data Simulation and Filtering Strategy for the European Laser Timing (ELT) Experiment On-board ACES Read more
Geoffrey Blewitt 2015 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2015 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Geoffrey Blewitt for his pioneering developments in geodetic theory, for advancing the Global Positioning System (GPS) for scientific research and applications, and for his outstanding contributions in applying geodesy to study geophysical and climate processes. Read more
Krzysztof Sośnica 2015 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2015 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Krzysztof Sośnica for his innovative contributions in combining Satellite Laser Ranging and Global Navigation Satellite Systems to improve the quality of geodetic key parameter estimates. Read more
Wolfgang Szwillus 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Wolfgang Szwillus Depth sensitivity of satellite gravity gradients inferred from a density model of North America Read more
Adria Rovira-Garcia 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Adria Rovira-Garcia Fast-PPP assessment in European and equatorial region near the Solar Cycle maximum Read more
Reinhard Dietrich 2014 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2014 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Reinhard Dietrich for his outstanding accomplishments in the application of terrestrial and satellite geodesy to study cryospheric change and the glacial isostatic adjustment process, and his pioneering quantitative studies of the current state of the polar ice sheets. Read more
Roelof Rietbroek 2014 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2014 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Roelof Rietbroek for providing methodological solutions to the problem of integrating GRACE data, together with GPS, altimetry, and model data into estimates of mass redistribution. Read more
Bas de Boer 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Bas de Boer Simulating regionally varying sea-level changes over the past glacial cycles with a coupled ice-sheet sea-level model Read more
Verena Lieb 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Verena Lieb Using the full tensor of GOCE gravity gradients for regional gravity field modelling Read more
Zuheir Altamimi 2013 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2013 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Zuheir Altamimi for his invaluable research in the development and continuous improvement of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame and for his important contributions to space geodetic research. Read more
Che-Kwan Shum 2012 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2012 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Che-Kwan Shum for his pioneering work on the recent developments in geodetic techniques that have made profound contributions to the Earth Sciences through the precise measurement of mass transports within the Earth system. Read more
Eszter Szűcs 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Eszter Szűcs Effect of the difference between surface and terrain models on gravity field related quantities Read more
Grace Nield 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Grace Nield The effect of recent accumulation changes in the Antarctic Peninsula upon Glacial Isostatic Adjustment Read more
Xavier Collilieux 2012 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2012 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Xavier Collilieux for his significant contributions towards improved methods and procedures in computing global terrestrial reference frames and for his studies of surface loading effects therein. Read more
Elifuraha Saria 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Elifuraha Saria A new velocity field for Africa from combined GPS and Doris Solutions: Contribution to Afref Read more
Harald Schuh 2011 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2011 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Harald Schuh for his work in the field of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and his important contribution to space geodetic research. Read more
Jan Martin Brockmann 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Jan Martin Brockmann Use of massive parallel computing libraries in the context of global gravity field determination Read more
Thomas Hobiger 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Thomas Hobiger for his outstanding contribution in improvement of accuracy of space geodetic applications. Read more
András Zlinszky 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to András Zlinszky First, Second and Third Habsburg Military Surveys: documents of the transition of Lake Balaton from natural to artificial hydrologic regime Read more
Enrico Kurtenbach 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Enrico Kurtenbach Using Kalman smoother to derive daily gravity field solutions Enrico Kurtenbach is a PhD student at the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation (Department of Astronomical, Physical, and Mathematical Geodesy) at the University of Bonn, Germany. His research focuses on the determination of the temporal variations of the Earth’s gravity field using the satellite mission GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment). Within his work he developed a new approach (GRACE Kalman filter) to analyse these satellite data by introducing temporal correlation and to provide snapshots of the Earth’s gravity field with an unprecedented temporal resolution (daily mean values). Read more
Philip L. Woodworth 2010 Vening Meinesz Medal The 2010 Vening Meinesz Medal is awarded to Philip L. Woodworth in recognition of his outstanding contributions to sea level research. Read more
