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Free scope for research – Helmholtz International Fellow Award winners selected

Berlin, 27 June 2014| Berlin:The Helmholtz Association has chosen eight outstanding scientists as recipients of the third round of the Helmholtz International Fellow Award. In addition to the prize money of €20,000 each, the Fellows are invited to conduct research at one or more Helmholtz Centres. The timing of their research is flexible. The award honours excellent research and supports establishing new cooperation structures with international research institutions. The GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences successfully nominated Prof. Günter Blöschl, director of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management at the Vienna Univsity, Austria. Günter Blöschl will start his scientific stay at GFZ in autumn this year.

Berlin, 27 June 2014| Berlin:The Helmholtz Association has chosen eight outstanding scientists as recipients of the third round of the Helmholtz International Fellow Award. In addition to the prize money of €20,000 each, the Fellows are invited to conduct research at one or more Helmholtz Centres. The timing of their research is flexible. The award honours excellent research and supports establishing new cooperation structures with international research institutions. The GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences successfully nominated Prof. Günter Blöschl, director of the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management at the Vienna Univsity, Austria. Günter Blöschl will start his scientific stay at GFZ in autumn this year.

"Collaborating with the world's best scientists is a major aim of the Helmholtz Association's international activities," says Jürgen Mlynek, President of the Helmholtz Association. "The Helmholtz International Fellow Award allows us to make many international, long-term contacts, therefore boosting scientific exchange in Germany. On their return, the award winners can also apply this experience to their own research organisations."

The award is not aimed only at researchers - it can also be conferred to science managers based outside Germany who have excelled in fields relevant to the Helmholtz Association. Candidates must be nominated for the award by a Helmholtz Centre working in a similar research field as the respective candidates. The quality of the candidates' research is the most important criterion for the award. Nominations may be made at any time. The Helmholtz Executive Committee selects the award winners.

The other following researchers have received a Helmholtz Fellow Award 2014:

Prof. Anne-Lise Borresen-Dale, head of the Department of Genetics at the Institute of Cancer Research at Oslo University Hospital (Norway), nominated by the German Cancer Research Center.

Prof. Volodymyr A. Chernenko, professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of the Basque Country (Spain), nominated by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Prof. Helmut Rott, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics at the University of Innsbruck (Austria), nominated by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Prof. Barbara Sherwood Lollar, director of the Stable Isotope Laboratory at the University of Toronto (Canada), nominated by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ.

Prof. David J. Smith, Regents' Professor of Physics at Arizona State University (USA), nominated by the Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Prof. Leone Spiccia, Professor of Chemistry at Monash University Melbourne (Australia), nominated by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf.

Prof. Tsutomu T. Yanagida, Professor at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo (Japan), nominated by Deutsches Elektronen-System DESY.

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