Doctoral researchers Tabea Rettelbach of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam and Panagiotis Kampouridis of the University of Tübingen are to be awarded this year’s Bernd Rendel Prize by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in recognition of their promising and original pre-doctoral research in the geosciences. They were selected by a jury made up of members of the DFG’s review boards in the geosciences.

The prizewinners will each receive €3,000 from the Bernd Rendel Foundation, which is administered by Stifterverband. The prize money is intended to enable them to pursue academic activities such as attending international conferences and meetings. The prize will be presented at the annual meeting of the German Geological Society, which is to take place in Dresden from 23 to 26 September.