Erika Palmerio 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Erika Palmerio for outstanding research in analysing complex solar transients and their space weather effects. Read more
Leonard Schulz 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Leonard Schulz Capabilities of the wave telescope for multi-scale spacecraft configurations using a Vlasiator simulation Read more
Sandra Catherine Chapman 2024 Hannes Alfvén Medal The 2024 Hannes Alfvén Medal is awarded to Sandra Catherine Chapman for her pioneering work and leadership in advancing our understanding of space plasma physics in the solar system and beyond. Read more
Artem Smirnov 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Artem Smirnov Neural network model of Electron density in the Topside ionosphere (NET) Read more
Hermann Opgenoorth 2023 Julius Bartels Medal The 2023 Julius Bartels Medal is awarded to Hermann Opgenoorth for his exceptional contributions to substorms and space weather research, and his strong leadership in international collaboration. Read more
Stephan G. Heinemann 2023 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2023 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Stephan G. Heinemann in recognition of his outstanding research in the field of solar terrestrial relations and solar physics. Read more
Veera Juntunen 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Veera Juntunen Influence of geomagnetic activity on the wintertime electricity consumption in Finland via Northern Annular Mode Read more
Angelica M. Castillo Tibocha 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Angelica M. Castillo Tibocha Reconstructing the dynamics of the outer electron radiation belt by means of the standard and ensemble Kalman filter with the VERB-3D code Read more
Chao Yue 2022 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2022 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Chao Yue for innovative contributions to magnetospheric physics, in particular, ring current dynamics and associated wave-particle interactions. Read more
David J. McComas 2022 Hannes Alfvén Medal The 2022 Hannes Alfvén Medal is awarded to David J. McComas for pioneering scientific contributions and technical achievements in solar-terrestrial sciences and in our understanding of the heliosphere and its interaction with the interstellar medium. Read more
Evangelia Samara 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Evangelia Samara Calibrating the WSA velocity in EUHFORIA based on PSP observations Read more
Josephine Salice 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Josephine Salice Solar Wind Structures and their Effects on the High-Energy Tail of the Precipitating Energetic Electron Spectrum Read more
Víctor M. S. Carrasco 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Víctor M. S. Carrasco for outstanding research in the field of space climate and solar physics. Read more
Mateja Dumbović 2021 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2021 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Mateja Dumbović for her innovative contributions to solar and space-weather physics, in particular, regarding the modelling and observational studies of Forbush decreases, CME propagation, and geo-effectivity. Read more
Volker Bothmer 2021 Julius Bartels Medal The 2021 Julius Bartels Medal is awarded to Volker Bothmer for his outstanding work on understanding the complex nature of coronal mass ejections. Read more
Lauri Holappa 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Lauri Holappa for outstanding research in the field of space climate and space weather. Read more
Qiugang Zong 2020 Hannes Alfvén Medal The 2020 Hannes Alfvén Medal is awarded to Qiugang Zong for his outstanding contributions to the identification of the particle acceleration mechanisms in the magnetosphere and to the development of space plasma physics instrumentation. Read more
Alexander Lukin 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Alexander Lukin Night-side magnetopause: simultaneous observations of ARTEMIS and MMS Read more
Chao Xiong 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Chao Xiong for outstanding research on space weather effects on the thermosphere and ionosphere. Read more
Daniel N. Baker 2019 Hannes Alfvén Medal The 2019 Hannes Alfvén Medal is awarded to Daniel N. Baker for outstanding, multi-faceted contributions to the near-Earth space plasma environment research and predictions, Earth’s radiation belt environment monitoring, and planetary space plasma studies. Read more
Masatoshi Yamauchi 2019 Julius Bartels Medal The 2019 Julius Bartels Medal is awarded to Masatoshi Yamauchi for extraordinary work in space physics and planetary science. Read more
Eckart Marsch 2018 Hannes Alfvén Medal The 2018 Hannes Alfvén Medal is awarded to Eckart Marsch for fundamental contributions to our understanding of the kinetic processes and plasma turbulence in the heliosphere, as well as for work that helped HELIOS become a successful mission and initiated the Solar Orbiter. Read more
Ilya G. Usoskin 2018 Julius Bartels Medal The 2018 Julius Bartels Medal is awarded to Ilya G. Usoskin for his key contributions to long-term changes of cosmic rays and solar activity, qualifying him as a founder of the space climate discipline. Read more
Irina Zhelavskaya 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Irina Zhelavskaya Systematic analysis of machine learning techniques for Kp prediction in the framework of the H2020 project ‘SWAMI’ Read more
Natasha L. S. Jeffrey 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Natasha L. S. Jeffrey for her outstanding achievements in improving the standard model of fast electrons produced in solar flares, thereby eliminating the long-standing low-energy cut-off uncertainty. Read more
Pauli Väisänen 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Pauli Väisänen Long-term evolution of the power-law spectrum of galactic cosmic rays in 1953-2016 Read more
Emma Anderberg 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Emma Anderberg Reconstructing the 11-year solar cycle length from cosmogenic radionuclides for the last 600 years Read more
Eric R. Priest 2017 Hannes Alfvén Medal The 2017 Hannes Alfvén Medal is awarded to Eric R. Priest for his fundamental contribution to the understanding of the mathematical complexity and physics of magnetic reconnection and the magnetic coupling of the convection zone with the solar atmosphere. Read more
Julia K. Thalmann 2017 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2017 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Julia K. Thalmann for her notable contributions to understanding the magnetic field configurations in the solar atmosphere in general, and those associated to flares and CMEs in particular. Read more
Tuija I. Pulkkinen 2017 Julius Bartels Medal The 2017 Julius Bartels Medal is awarded to Tuija I. Pulkkinen for her key contributions in solar-terrestrial science, scientific management, academic leadership, and services to the space community. Read more
Cecilia Norgren 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Cecilia Norgren Kinetic scale current sheet observed at the magnetopause Read more
Jeffrey M. Forbes 2016 Julius Bartels Medal The 2016 Julius Bartels Medal is awarded to Jeffrey M. Forbes for his outstanding contributions to the understanding of atmospheric tides and their impact on upper atmosphere and ionosphere space weather. Read more
Stephen A. Fuselier 2016 Hannes Alfvén Medal The 2016 Hannes Alfvén Medal is awarded to Stephen A. Fuselier for his fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of the interaction of the solar wind with Earth’s magnetosphere, comets, and the interstellar medium. Read more
Anastasia Tezari 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Anastasia Tezari Cosmic ray diurnal anisotropy during extreme events of the period 2001-2014 Read more
Christer van der Meeren 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Christer van der Meeren Observations of simultaneous multi-constellation GNSS scintillation in nightside aurora over Svalbard Read more
Denys Dudkin 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Denys Dudkin Power line emission 50/60 Hz and Schumann resonances observed by microsatellite Chibis-M in the Earth’s ionosphere Read more
Jonathan I. Lunine 2015 Jean Dominique Cassini Medal & Honorary Membership The 2015 Jean Dominique Cassini Medal & Honorary Membership is awarded to Jonathan I. Lunine for his key discoveries and his seminal contributions in planetary sciences and exobiology, his leadership and instrumental participation in the design and implementation of space-exploration missions, and his pivotal role in space-science policy. Read more
Robert L. Lysak 2015 Hannes Alfvén Medal The 2015 Hannes Alfvén Medal is awarded to Robert L. Lysak for fundamental contributions to the theory of Alfvén waves that firmly established their importance in magnetosphere-ionosphere interactions. Read more
Sami Solanki 2015 Julius Bartels Medal The 2015 Julius Bartels Medal is awarded to Sami Solanki for his truly exceptional work that has provided understanding of the Sun and is of fundamental importance to studies of Earth’s past global climate, present regional climates, and to space weather effects on mankind’s operational systems. Read more
Karl Schindler 2014 Hannes Alfvén Medal The 2014 Hannes Alfvén Medal is awarded to Karl Schindler for his illuminating contributions to the dynamics of the solar corona, the magnetosphere and astrophysical plasmas through elegant theoretical analyses of fundamental plasma phenomena such as equilibria, stability, current sheets and reconnection. Read more
Lauren Blum 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Lauren Blum Rapid MeV electron precipitation and its contribution to radiation belt losses Read more
Michael von Papen 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Michael von Papen Evaluation of reduced power spectra from three-dimensional k-space Read more
Noé Lugaz 2014 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists The 2014 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists is awarded to Noé Lugaz for his innovative contributions to the understanding of coronal mass ejections. Read more
Paweł Swaczyna 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Paweł Swaczyna Fluxes of energetic neutral helium atoms from the heliosheath and the IBEX Ribbon Read more
Rumi Nakamura 2014 Julius Bartels Medal The 2014 Julius Bartels Medal is awarded to Rumi Nakamura for her outstanding contributions to the understanding of the complex plasma physical processes within the magnetosphere and the magnetotail of the Earth through all phases of the substorm cycle. Read more
Alexis P. Rouillard 2013 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists The 2013 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists is awarded to Alexis P. Rouillard for innovative studies of the solar atmosphere, the interplanetary medium, the shielding of the Earth from galactic cosmic rays, centennial variations of the Sun, the generation of energetic particles, and the impact of interplanetary disturbances on Earth. Read more
Beate Krøvel Humberset 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Beate Krøvel Humberset Untangling the space-time ambiguity of pulsating aurora Read more
Göran Marklund 2013 Hannes Alfvén Medal The 2013 Hannes Alfvén Medal is awarded to Göran Marklund for his outstanding contributions in auroral physics, especially his discovery of downward directed magnetic-field aligned electric fields, an essential feature of the auroral circuit, and their association with black aurora. Read more
Nikolai A. Tsyganenko 2013 Julius Bartels Medal The 2013 Julius Bartels Medal is awarded to Nikolai A. Tsyganenko for his pioneering contributions to modelling the near-Earth magnetic field and his unflagging commitment to supporting the research community in the application of these models to solving key problems in magnetospheric physics. Read more
Alejandro Luque 2012 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2012 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Alejandro Luque for his outstanding contribution to the understanding of the electrodynamics of plasma streamers found in Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) occurring in the mesosphere of the Earth. Read more