Anastasios A. Tsonis 2026 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2026 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Anastasios A. Tsonis for outstanding contributions applying methods of nonlinear data analysis to atmospheric science and the theory of complex networks to coupled subsystems of the climate system. Read more
Francisco de Melo Viríssimo 2026 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2026 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Francisco de Melo Viríssimo for groundbreaking interdisciplinary research spanning nonlinear dynamics, marine biogeochemistry and climate science, and for outstanding contributions as educator, mentor, and scientific community leader. Read more
Joaquín Espinoza Troni 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Joaquín Espinoza Troni Electron scale magnetic holes generation driven by Whistler-to-Bernstein mode conversion in fully kinetic plasma turbulence Read more
Johannes Jakob Lohmann 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2025 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Johannes Jakob Lohmann for important contributions to our understanding of non-linear climate dynamics during the last glacial period. Read more
Vincenzo Carbone 2025 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2025 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Vincenzo Carbone for outstanding contributions to the study of turbulence in magnetohydrodynamics, particularly in the solar wind and space plasmas, as well as its impact on the Earth’s magnetosphere and climate. Read more
Abdallah Aoude 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Abdallah Aoude Design of a new laboratory earthquake experiment Read more
Annick Pouquet 2024 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2024 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Annick Pouquet for her outstanding contributions to the field of theoretical and computational turbulence in neutral and conducting fluids, in particular in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence and dynamo theory. Read more
Simone Benella 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Simone Benella for his many original contributions in the field of stochastic processes, advancing the understanding space plasma dynamics. Read more
Angelo Vulpiani 2023 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2023 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Angelo Vulpiani for contributions to stochastic resonance, as a mechanism for climate variability, the development of multifractals to describe turbulence and chaotic systems, and its implications for predictability. Read more
Jamie Mathews 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Jamie Mathews How Oceans Create Extreme Temperatures Read more
Lucas Schmutz 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Lucas Schmutz A multivariate approach to combine general circulation models using graph cuts Read more
Benedikt Schulz 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Benedikt Schulz Machine learning for postprocessing ensemble forecasts of wind gusts with a focus on European winter storms Read more
Lana Blaschke 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Lana Blaschke AMOC early warning signals in CMIP6 models? Read more
Tommaso Alberti 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Tommaso Alberti for outstanding research in the fields of data analysis and modeling, via dynamical system approaches, to understand complexity in geoscience, space plasma, and the planetary environment. Read more
Ulrike Feudel 2022 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2022 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Ulrike Feudel for fundamental contributions on tipping points in multistable systems. Read more
Bérengère Dubrulle 2021 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2021 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Bérengère Dubrulle for outstanding contributions to the field of geophysical and astrophysical turbulence, and for a unique approach to the study of experimental turbulent flows using statistical mechanics. Read more
Giorgia Di Capua 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award The 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award is awarded to Giorgia Di Capua Causal maps versus correlation maps: visual analysis of tropical-extratropical atmospheric teleconnections using causal discovery Read more
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. Read more
Sam Hartharn-Evans 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award The 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award is awarded to Sam Hartharn-Evans How does stratification affect shoaling Internal Solitary Waves? Read more
Ekaterina Didenkulova 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Ekaterina Didenkulova for her exceptional contribution in developing the theory of nonlinear waves in geophysics, and in particular for the development of extreme waves, known as rogue waves. Read more
Valerio Lucarini 2020 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2020 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Valerio Lucarini for his outstanding contributions to the fields of extreme value theory and climate science in general, with particular applications to climate modelling and prediction. Read more
Elisa Ziegler 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Elisa Ziegler Transient simulation of climate variability during the Last Glacial Maximum and the Holocene with an energy balance climate model Read more
Rem-Sophia Mouradi 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Rem-Sophia Mouradi A combined orthogonal decomposition and polynomial chaos methodology for data-based analysis and prediction of coastal dynamics Read more
Shaun Lovejoy 2019 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2019 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Shaun Lovejoy for pioneering and leading research on multifractal cascade dynamics in hydrology, climate and weather, leading to a new class of comprehensive stochastic, rather than deterministic, sub-grid models. Read more
Davide Faranda 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Davide Faranda for his exceptional contributions to developing the theory of extreme values for dynamical systems and its use for analysing the underlying properties of the dynamics of the atmosphere and the climate system. Read more
Maxim Khudyakov 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Maxim Khudyakov Dynamics of fragmented geomaterials Read more
Timothy N. Palmer 2018 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2018 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Timothy N. Palmer for his fundamental contributions to the conception and practical implementation of a system for ensemble weather prediction and the recent development of a similar probabilistic approach to climate. Read more
Yan Li 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Yan Li Direct integration method for surface waves on depth dependent flows Read more
Costanza Rodda 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Costanza Rodda Atmospheric-like rotating annulus experiment: gravity wave emission from baroclinic jet Read more
Edward Ott 2017 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2017 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Edward Ott for pioneering contributions in the theory of chaos with applications to the motion of tracers in fluids, kinematic dynamos, and data assimilation for weather forecasting. Read more
Qianqian Qi 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Qianqian Qi Using an ICM ensemble prediction system outputs to explore the “spring predictability barrier” for 2015/2016 El Niño event Read more
Malte Stuecker 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Malte Stuecker El Niño−Southern Oscillation frequency cascade Read more
Peter L. Read 2016 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2016 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Peter L. Read for his fundamental studies of the nonlinear dynamics of stratified rotating fluids and for their applications in the analysis of dynamical phenomena in planetary atmospheres. Read more
Daniel Schertzer 2015 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2015 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Daniel Schertzer for initiating innovative ideas in nonlinear geophysics, in particular the multifractal formalism, the concept of generalised scale invariance, and their implementation in data analyses leading to a reinterpretation of long-standing problems in hydrology and atmospheric sciences. Read more
Jon Ander Arrillaga 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Jon Ander Arrillaga An observational and numerical study of the sea breeze in the eastern Cantabrian coast (Spain) Read more
Davide Faranda 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Davide Faranda A recurrence-based technique for detecting genuine extremes in instrumental temperature records Read more
Majid Bastankhah 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Majid Bastankhah Effects of Positive versus Negative Yaw Angles on Wind-Turbine Performance: An Application of BEM Theory Read more
Olivier Talagrand 2014 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2014 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Olivier Talagrand for the development of data assimilation techniques, in particular the theoretical formulation of the adjoint method, and the implementation of these techniques in various applications in meteorology, climate and operational weather forecasts. Read more
Hyeyum Hailey Shin 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Hyeyum Hailey Shin Analysis of subgrid-scale vertical transport in convective boundary layers at gray-zone resolutions Read more
Jürgen Kurths 2013 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2013 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Jürgen Kurths for his development of crucial new concepts and tools in the synchronisation of coupled chaotic oscillators and in recurrence networks, and for their innovative application to climate dynamics and nonlinear geosciences in general. Read more
Yongxiang Huang 2013 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2013 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Yongxiang Huang for fundamental contributions in the application of the Empirical Mode Decomposition and Hilbert Spectral Analysis to intermittent and scaling signals. Read more
Auguste Gires 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Auguste Gires A toy model to deal with zero rainfall in a Universal Multifractal framework Read more
Claudia Cherubini 2012 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2012 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Claudia Cherubini for valuable contributions to the hydrogeological modeling of groundwater applied to resource management, with specific approaches for coastal fractured aquifers, and for applying advanced geo-statistical techniques to model environmental and anthropogenic variables. Read more
Harry Swinney 2012 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2012 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Harry Swinney for his pioneering experiments on deterministic chaos and highly original laboratory models of geophysical flows. Read more
Awnesh Singh 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Awnesh Singh Contrasting ENSO Events in the Tropical Pacific Using Sea Surface Salinity Observations Read more
Catherine Nicolis 2011 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2011 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Catherine Nicolis for her highly original contributions to the understanding of the behaviour of stochastic and deterministic non-linear systems and the application of these ideas in meteorology and climate dynamics. Read more
Reik Volker Donner 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Reik Volker Donner for highly innovative contributions to new techniques of nonlinear time series analysis and their applications in the geosciences. Read more
Klaus Fraedrich 2010 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal The 2010 Lewis Fry Richardson Medal is awarded to Klaus Fraedrich for diverse and lasting contributions to the applications of non-linear and stochastic concepts and methods to the atmospheric and oceanic sciences, and for the development of highly valuable modelling suites of broad use and easy access. Read more
Stephanie Horion 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Stephanie Horion Modelling climate control on cropland and grassland using phenologically tuned variables Read more
Irina I. Rypina 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Irina I. Rypina Transport in an idealized three-gyre system with application to the Adriatic Sea Read more
