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Prof. Achim Brauer honored with DEUQUA Medal of Merit

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The German Quaternary Association honoured the former head of the GFZ section ‘Climate Dynamics and Landscape Development’ for his outstanding scientific achievements in Quaternary research.

Achim Brauer looks into the camera while holding a prepared sediment core in his hands.
Achim Brauer in the rock garden on the Telegrafenberg in Potsdam. (Photo: Merlin Meister, GFZ)
Group photo of 28 people in front of a neutral background on the Telegrafenberg in Potsdam.
Paleoclimatologist Achim Brauer (2nd row, center), one of the main project leaders of the ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project, during the international core opening campaign 2012 in his section at the GFZ. (Photo: Elisabeth Gantz, GFZ)
Achim Brauer stands in front of a REKLIM roll-up in the interior of a seminar room.
The combination of paleoclimate reconstructions with climate modeling for the past was a focus of Achim Brauer's networking activities in the Helmholtz REKLIM network. (Photo: Elisabeth Gantz, GFZ)
Achim Brauer in a yellow raincoat on a platform in the water looking at a sediment core freshly pulled out of the lake
Tracking down the climate of the past. (Photo: Markus Schwab, GFZ)
Achim Brauer and a young man talk against the backdrop of a stony and arid landscape.
Academic curiosity, joy of discussion and Appreciation, Achim Brauer with a Master student from Al Quds University in the West Bank (DFG Trilateral PALEX project). (Photo: Markus Schwab, GFZ)
A camera team interviews Achim Brauer.
Highest visibility: Media professional Achim Brauer presents a paleoclimate research project and first findings on Lake Gosciaz to Polish television. (Photo: Markus Schwab, GFZ)
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On 25 September 2024, Prof. Dr Achim Brauer was awarded the DEUQUA Medal of Merit. The German Quaternary Association honoured Brauer's outstanding scientific achievements in Quaternary research with its highest award. Quaternary, the most recent period in Earth’s history, began around 2.6 million years ago and extends to the present day. 

DEUQUA e.V. is the association of German-speaking Quaternary scientists. The award was presented during the joint international annual conference of the Austrian Geological Society (AGS) and DEUQUA, “Pangeo-DEUQUA 2024” in Salzburg.


About the person

Prof. Dr. Achim Brauer, Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), can look back on a long and successful career at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, where he has been conducting research since 1993. He headed the former Section “Climate Dynamics and Landscape Development” from 2007 to March 2024 and was Director of the former Geoarchives Department from 2016 to 2018.

Achim Brauer's research focus is on environmental and climate history, with a special focus on paleolimnology, where the biological, chemical and physical analysis of sediments enables research into the past ecological state of terrestrial waterbodies over time.

Brauer has initiated and led a wide range of projects, including the North-East German Lowland Observatory TERENO Nordost, the REKLIM research network, the German-Israeli-Palestinian PALEX project and the Helmholtz Virtual Institute ICLEA. Achim Brauer retired in Spring 2024. He continues to be involved in several international paleoclimate research and climate reconstruction projects as a guest scientist in Section 4.6 Geomorphology.

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