Awards winners 2021
The Kristian Birkeland Medal
Pr. Shibata
Prof. Shibata is a world-renowned solar physicist. He has published more than 300 papers in refereed journals. That have been cited more than 20,000 times. He has contributed a lot to international collaborations ...read more
The Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal
Dr Kusnetsova
Dr Kusnetsova is probably one of the best-known space weather scientists in the world, through her unique activity in founding, maintaining and constantly developing the famous Community Coordinated Modelling Center ...read more
The Alexander Chizhevsky Medal
Dr. Martin Reiss
After receiving his master's degree in theoretical and computational physics in January 2014 with distinction, Dr Reiss started his doctoral study of natural sciences at the University of Graz (Austria). A few months, he had developed ...read more
Awards winners 2020
The Kristian Birkeland Medal
Dr. Richard Horne
Dr. Horne has made some of the most seminal contributions to the observations and theory of magnetospheric plasma waves and their interactions with various particle populations. He is the world leader in this field ...read more
The Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal
Dr Madhulika Guhathakurta
Dr. Madhulika Guhathakurta (Lika) has contributed significantly to all the three criteria for the Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal. Lika was one of the founders of the International Living With a Star Program (ILWS), ...read more
The Alexander Chizhevsky Medal
Dr Mateja Dumbovic
Dr. Dumbović has been highly productive, both in terms of her research and as a member of the space weather community. Her research has covered a range of solar/heliospheric topics that are critical to the study of space weather, ...read more
Awards winners 2019
The Kristian Birkeland Medal
Dr. Bruce Tadashi Tsurutani
Dr. Bruce Tsurutani, is principal scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA. Dr. Tsurutani is renowned in multiple research fields including space weather, nonlinear plasma waves, ...read more
The Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal
Pr. Delores J. Knipp
Delores Knipp is an outstanding ambassador for space weather, and has been a leader in the science, teaching, and dissemination of space weather research for decades. She has made major contributions to our understanding ...read more
The Alexander Chizhevsky Medal
Dr. Jiajia Liu
Dr. Liu obtained his PhD degree in June 2015 from the University of Science and Technology of China with honors. Up to now, he has published an impressive 31 peer-reviewed papers in top journals, including Nature Communications... read more
Awards winners 2018
The Kristian Birkeland Medal
Pr. Tamas Gombosi
A leader in space weather and planetary research, a visionary in Space Weather numerical modeling, and a pioneer of cometary plasma physics. Professor Gombosi was born and raised in Hungary. He earned his PhD in physics ... read more
The Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal
Pr. Hermann J Opgenoorth
One of the major founders and leaders of the discipline of Space Weather in Europe through both his leading and important scientific research as well as his many and varied contributions to the organisation of Space Weather ...read more
The Alexander Chizhevsky Medal
Dr. Christina Kay
The Catholic University of America and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is the recipient of this year’s Alexander Chizhevsky Medal. The medal is awarded to a young researcher for outstanding achievements ...read more
Awards winners 2017
The Kristian Birkeland Medal
Dr. Bojan Vršnak
Dr. Bojan Vršnak has worked on various aspects of solar eruptive phenomena and their space weather impact, from observational as well as from theoretical side. These phenomena under study include solar flares, flux ropes ...read more
The Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal
Prof. Ji Wu
Professor Ji Wu has made an outstanding contribution to international collaboration in the field of space weather. He has played a key role is opening up collaborations between Chinese and researchers in other countries, ...read more
The Alexander Chizhevsky Medal
Dr. Elena Popova
The major scientific contribution of Elena Popova is in detailed modelling of the intricacies of solar magnetic activity as associated with generation and evolution of strong magnetic field in the solar interior and its temporal behaviour ...read more
Awards winners 2016
The Kristian Birkeland Medal
Dr. Antti Pulkkinen
Dr. Antti Pulkkinen is an internationally recognized scientist for his contribution to the research on geomagnetically induced currents (GICs). His pioneering research has advanced our understanding of the extremes ...read more
The Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal
Prof. Mike Hapgood
Prof. Mike Hapgood is an excellent and internationally recognised expert in space weather. Specifically, he has effectively led various international projects on the impact of space weather phenomena on technological systems ...read more
The Alexander Chizhevsky Medal
Dr. Julia Thalmann
Dr. Julia K. Thalmann received her master thesis in astrophysics at the University of Graz (Austria) under the supervision of Dr. Astrid Veronig, she analysed a CME- initiated shock wave, so-called Moreton wave, and filament ...read more
Awards winners 2015
The Kristian Birkeland Medal
Dr. Werner Schmutz
Dr Werner Schmutz is a widely accepted authority in the area of space weather and space climate studies. As director of the Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos and World Radiation Center (PMOD/WRC), ...read more
The Alexander Chizhevsky Medal
Dr. Tatiana Podladchikova
As a visiting scholar Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium Tatiana Podladchikova focused on the development of a prediction technique for the sunspot cycle maximum amplitude. In 2009-2011 as a Research Scientist at ...read more
Awards winners 2014
The Kristian Birkeland Medal
Prof. Bodo W. Reinisch
Dr. Reinisch is president and CEO of Lowell Digisonde International, LLC which designs and manufactures ionospheric HF systems, and participates in the development of ionospheric models. From 1965 to 2010, ...read more
The Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal
Dr. Joseph Davila
Dr Davila is a world-class space physicist. He has a long heritage of space mission involvement and leadership, including key projects such as STEREO, Solar Orbiter and SERTS, and has an established research record ...read more
The Alexander Chizhevsky Medal
Dr. Christina Plainaki
Christina started to model cosmic ray propagation through the Earth’s magnetosphere and atmosphere as a post-graduate student in the field of space plasma physics and cosmic rays at the University of Athens ...read more.
Awards winners 2013
The Kristian Birkeland Medal
Dr. Dieter Bilitza
Dr. Bilitza is a research professor at George Mason University’s School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Science in Fairfax, Virginia, and a chief scientist at NASA GSFC’s Heliospheric Physics Laboratory ...read more
The Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal
Dr. Hans Haubold
Professor Hans Haubold is the initiator of basic space science related activities conducted in the framework of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications. For nearly three decades, Professor Hans Haubold ...read more
The Alexander Chizhevsky Medal
Dr. Gaël Cessateur
Gaël defended his PhD in France in June, 2011 on the effect of the solar EUV flux on the upper atmospheres of the Earth and Ganymede. Obviously, he knows the physics behind the phenomena he is studying and fully understands ...read more