The renowned geochemist Xiao-Ming Liu is a guest in Section 3.3 Earth Surface Geochemistry for 2 months with the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Hayley Allison from section 2.7 Space Physics and Space Weather receives the prestigious Karl Scheel-Prize of the Berlin Physical Society for her work on radiation belt electrons.

Jannes Münchmeyer formerly Section 2.4 Seismology, now PostDoc at the Université Grenoble, received the Helmholtz Doctoral Award for his outstanding thesis on earthquake early warning. Interview.

Theresa Hennig was awarded the “University Society Prize for the Outstanding PhD 2022” at the central graduation ceremony of the University of Potsdam.

Political scientist Doris Fuchs will be the new Director at the Research Institute for Sustainability. She will form a dual leadership together with Mark Lawrence.

Dietrich Franz Deneke passed away on 1 May 2023.

How do we deal with research data, how do we shape the next research period? The Scientific Council advises the Executive Board on matters of fundamental scientific importance.

Achim Brauer, head of the Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution Section, has been elected a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Christoph Keuschnig has been awarded a prestigious MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship to investigate the impact of fungal-bacterial interactions on soil structure formation.

The researcher Ankit Agarwal receives the Outstanding Early Career Scientific Award from the European Geosciences Union.