The "DiFX collaboration" with GFZ’s James M. Anderson won the Peter McGregor Prize for their achievements related to very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI).

The International Geodesy Association (IAG) awarded the Levallois Medal of the Year 2019 to Professor Christoph Reigber.

Kyriakos Balidakis has been awarded the Friedrich Robert Helmert Prize.

Marco Bohnhoff has been appointed Executive Director of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program ICDP.

Maorong Ge has been appointed as Honorary Professor for Real-Time Positioning and Multisensor Navigation at the Technical University of Berlin.

Dirk Schulze-Makuch takes up a professorship for Astrobiologie - Planetare Habitabilität in a joint appointment of GFZ, Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, and TU Berlin.

As a ‚Jugend forscht‘ special award, Maximilian Wegner wins research internship at GFZ.

Monika Korte was elected Secretary General of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy IAGA.

Harald Schuh appointed Honorary President of the Association of International Geodesy.

Alexander Rudloff is new Secretary of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysiks. The unions General Assembly will take place in Berlin in 2023.