GFZ is hosting Helmholtz International Fellow Falk Amelung from Miami University, USA, for his research visit in Germany.

Ebuka Nwosu received the award for the best poster presentation at this year's annual conference of the Association for General and Applied Microbiology in Mainz, Germany.

Werner Köckeritz, GFZ CIO, has been appointed as a member of the Presidium of the Federal Association of IT Users 'VOICE'.

At this year's annual conference of the European Geosciences Union EGU in Vienna the GFZ scientists Jean Braun, Chao Xiong, and Irina Zhelavskaya are honoured.

Geophysicist Benjamin Schwarz receives young investigators award of the German Geophysical Society.

The PhD students Friederike Körting and Friederike Klos were awarded three prizes at the 11th Imaging Spectroscopy Workshop.

Geochemist Sarah Gleeson will give lectures worldwide “to inspire the next generation of geologists”.

Doris Dransch is Head of the new GFZ section Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics.

Lutz Hannemann, former GFZ photographer, celebrates his 50th anniversary in the photographer's trade.

On 4 February, GFZ scientist Richard Biancale died after a heart attack at the age of 66.