With the beginning of the new year, Kirsten Elger becomes Chief Executive Editor of the journal Earth System Science Data ESSD.

Benjamin Männel has been elected to the steering committee of the International Global Navigation Satellite Service IGS.

The annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union AGU takes place from 9 to 13 December in San Francisco, USA. A total of four GFZ scientists will be awarded prizes.

Sophia Walther received Ernst Reuter Prize of Freie Universität Berlin.

Kate Maher from Stanford University appointed as next Helmholtz International Fellow to GFZ Potsdam.

Sascha Brune replaces Stephan Sobolev as Head of Section (Geodynamic Modeling).

Harald Schuh has been elected new chairman of the German Geodetic Commission DGK.

Taylor Schildgen, is the new editor-in-chief of the journal Tectonics, published by the American Geophysical Society AGU.

Lecture by Friedhelm von Blanckenburg at the Einsteintag of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Joanne Heslop and Egbert Jolie are the new fellows funded by the GFZ Discovery Fund.