20.04.2016: Dr. Animesh Kumar Gain, Humboldt Research Fellow in the GFZ section Hydrology, and Christopher Otto, section Fluid Systems Modelling, are honored as outstanding young scientists at the general assembly of the European Geoscience Union EGU. Dr. Gain receives the Outstanding Young Scientist Award of the EGU Natural Hazard division for 2016, Otto receives an Outstanding Student Poster Award awarded in 2015.

Dr. Animesh Gain did his PhD at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. Since 2014 he is at GFZ, holding a Georg Foster research grant from the Humboldt Foundation. Using hydrological modelling he investigates the effects of climate change and anthropogenic impact on the hydrologic regime of the Lower Brahmaputra River in Asia. A special focus is on his home country of Bangladesh, one of the regions most affected by climate change.

Geologist Christopher Otto receives his award for a poster he presented in 2015, titled „Do we have to consider temperature-dependent material properties in large-scale environmental impact assessments of underground coal-gasification?” Since 2014, he is a PhD student at the GFZ in the project TOPS – “Technology Options for Coupled Underground Coal Gasification and CO₂ Capture and Storage”.

Furthermore, Janek Dreibrodt receives the EGU Outstanding Student Poster Award for 2015. He is former PhD student of section Hydrology. (ak)

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