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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 TripathiAlexander von Humboldt Medal
Trevor John McDougallAlfred Wegener Medal
Mariana Madruga de BritoArne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists
Renelle DubosqArne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists
Brice NoëlArne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists
Frederik KratzertArne Richter Awards for Outstanding Early Career Scientists
Paul TackleyArthur Holmes Medal
Claudia Jesus-RydinChampion(s) for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award
Raymond PierrehumbertJean Dominique Cassini Medal
Heather HandleyKatia and Maurice Krafft Award

The following individuals will receive 2025 Division Medals:

Neil M. RibeAugustus Love Medal
Francesco SoldovieriChristiaan Huygens Medal
Tatiana IlyinaFridtjof Nansen Medal
Heather Marie StollHans Oeschger Medal
Jan SeibertHenry Darcy Medal
Lesley WybornIan McHarg Medal
Donald Ross ProtheroJean Baptiste Lamarck Medal
Paolo D'OdoricoJohn Dalton Medal
Shin SugiyamaJulia and Johannes Weertman Medal
Richard HorneJulius Bartels Medal
Vincenzo CarboneLewis Fry Richardson Medal
Zhengyu LiuMilutin Milanković Medal
Nils OlsenPetrus Peregrinus Medal
Wulf AmelungPhilippe Duchaufour Medal
Annegret Henriette ThiekenPlinius Medal
Christopher D. ClarkRalph Alger Bagnold Medal
Trevor Russell IrelandRobert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal
Cathy Quantin NatafRuncorn-Florensky Medal
Sergio M. Vicente-SerranoSergey Soloviev Medal
Heidrun KoppStephan Mueller Medal
René ForsbergVening Meinesz Medal
Ulrike LohmannVilhelm Bjerknes Medal
Corinne Le QuéréVladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal

The following individuals will receive 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Awards:

Dominik StolzenburgAtmospheric Sciences (AS) Division
Getachew Agmuas AdnewBiogeosciences (BG) Division
Kai KornhuberClimate: Past, Present & Future (CL) Division
Marthe KlöckingEarth and Space Science Informatics (ESSI) Division
Carolina GiorgettiEarth Magnetism & Rock Physics (EMRP) Division
Iman Rahimzadeh KiviEnergy, Resources and the Environment (ERE) Division
Renée Jade TamblynGeochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (GMPV) Division
Matthias SchartnerGeodesy (G) Division
Iris van ZelstGeodynamics (GD) Division
Jana EichelGeomorphology (GM) Division
Johannes Jakob LohmannNonlinear Processes in Geosciences (NP) Division
Jens TerhaarOcean Sciences (OS) Division
Shangchun TengPlanetary and Solar System Sciences (PS) Division
Brandon Paul VanderBeekSeismology (SM) Division
Katerina GeorgiouSoil System Sciences (SSS) Division
Karin DissauerSolar-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.