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".

Theresa Blume, working group leader in GFZ section Hydrology, has been nominated Chief Executive Editor of HESS.

GFZ early career scientists Mengdi Pan and Karina Wilgan receive awards at this year's virtuel annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union.