Francesco Soldovieri
- 2025
- Christiaan Huygens Medal
The 2025 Christiaan Huygens Medal is awarded to Francesco Soldovieri for outstanding achievements in the field of electromagnetic modelling for radar imaging and its application to geosciences.
European Geosciences Union
Division on Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems
President: Pietro Tizzani
(Emailgi@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Raffaele Castaldo
(Email)
ECS Representative: Andrea Barone
(Emailecs-gi@egu.eu)
The Division on Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (GI) intends to be a forum for developments in instrumentation, technology, methods and data handling used in any field of the various geosciences. By promoting the discussion between specialists from widely diverse fields, advances in instrumentation made in one field might be utilised in other areas also and encourage co-operation, thereby saving separate development work and making new approaches possible, which otherwise might still have to wait for years or even decades.
As nearly every other field of geosciences is related to one or the other instrumentation strategy, many of the GI-sessions are co-organized with sessions from other divisions. Potential contributors to any session are encouraged to evaluate the benefits of a multi-disciplinary discussion versus the specific interest of the own target group.
The 2025 Christiaan Huygens Medal is awarded to Francesco Soldovieri for outstanding achievements in the field of electromagnetic modelling for radar imaging and its application to geosciences.
The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Rushan Wang Advances in the Identification of Geological Discontinuities in Boreholes with Deep Learning
The 2024 Christiaan Huygens Medal is awarded to Nemesio M. Pérez for his outstanding scientific contributions to the study of soil-gas geochemistry in volcanic areas, and for promoting international research programs in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa.
The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Livia Lantini for important contributions in the field of ground penetrating radar applications for forestry and environmental engineering.
The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Lorena Abad Geomorphic landform monitoring with raster and vector data cubes
In our November Issue we explore the interconnectedness of science and community as Bob Bateman talks about how online search patterns when earthquakes happen can improve disaster risk communication, Anjana Khatwa talks about our connections to the rocks around us in her new book, Lisa Gourdon-Grünewaldt discusses the importance of recognising and celebrating the International Day of LGBTQIA+ in STEM, Asmae Ourkiya shares the value of the new UNESCO World Soil Health Index as it connects data across countries and Eduardo Queiroz Alves gives his top 3 reasons why you should preprint your paper. Also catch up on all the upcoming dates for webinars and funding, including €10,000 to host a Geoscience Day event in your European country, and discover who the next President of EGU will be and other roles, with the results of the EGU elections.
All this and much more, in this month's Loupe!