The Association of Friends and Supporters of the GFZ - FFGFZ honors Jeffrey Paulo H. Perez with the Friedrich-Robert-Helmert-Award 2020 for the best doctoral dissertation

Friedhelm von Blanckenburg elected member of the Academia Europaea.

Reinhard Hüttl and Julia Fischer new Vice - Presidents of the Berlin - Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Kristen Cook has been made a Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA) this year.

Milad Asgarimehr receives the German Research Foundation's Bernd Rendel Prize 2020 for "early success in the geosciences".

Dirk Wagner has been appointed to the subcommittee ‘Taxonomy of the methanogenic archaea’ of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes ICSP.

Hannes Hofmann is the head of the new Helmholtz Young Investigator Group ARES "Advanced reservoir engineering concepts for a controlled utilization of geothermal energy in urban areas".

Charlotte Krawczyk has been elected to the Senate of the German Research Foundation DFG.

Stefan Kranz appointed to the Guideline Committee "Thermal use of the underground; underground thermal energy storage" of the Association of German Engineers (VDI).

Bruno Merz, head of GFZ’s Hydrology Section, has been awarded the "Volker Medal".