This session contains the 2025 EGU Augustus Love medal lecture by Neil Ribe and GD Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Iris van Zelst.
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The Christiaan Huygens Medal, awarded annually by the European Geosciences Union (EGU) through its Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (GI) Division, recognizes significant contributions in geoscientific instrumentation and data systems.
The 2025 recipient is Dr. Francesco Soldovieri, honored for his exceptional work in electromagnetic sensing and its applications. Dr. Soldovieri, Director of the Institute for Electromagnetic Sensing of the Environment (IREA) at the National Research Council (CNR) in Naples, Italy, has advanced radar data processing methodologies for applications spanning archaeology, cultural heritage diagnostics, geophysics, infrastructure monitoring, and security. His research, emphasizing electromagnetic modeling and inversion approaches, has enhanced non-invasive subsurface exploration techniques, benefiting the preservation of archaeological sites.
Dr. Soldovieri has authored over 260 journal articles and contributed to more than 370 conference proceedings, covering topics such as ground-penetrating radar (GPR), radar imaging, inverse scattering, and bioradar technologies. His innovative work has significantly influenced the use of GPR in various disciplines.
A key figure in the scientific community, Dr. Soldovieri has served as General Chair of the International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar (2007) and Co-Chair of the Ground Penetrating Radar Conference (2010). He is also a member of the editorial boards of prominent journals like IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
The special session for the EGU Christiaan Huygens Medal 2025 will feature Dr. Soldovieri’s lecture, where he will present insights from his extensive research and discuss future directions in electromagnetic sensing technologies. This session celebrates his achievements and fosters knowledge exchange to drive advancements in geoscientific instrumentation and data systems.

In this session the Stratigraphy Sedimentology and Paleontology Division (SSP) celebrates the Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal. This year the SSP Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal has been awarded to Donald Ross Prothero for his contribution in the field of stratigraphy and paleontology. A lecture by Donald Ross Prothero will be part of this session.

In this session there will be the NP Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Johannes Jakob Lohmann followed by a ceremony in memory of Vincenzo Carbone and delivery of the Lewis Fry Richardson Medal to his family or colleagues.

The Runcorn-Florensky Medal Lecture at EGU25 honors an individual whose work has made outstanding contributions to planetary and solar system sciences, spanning research into planetary bodies, surface and atmospheric processes, and extraterrestrial environments. This distinguished medal lecture highlights exemplary achievements that have shaped our understanding of the solar system and advanced planetary exploration.

Outstanding ECS Lecture by Renelle Dubosq
The award recognizes Dr. Dubosq pioneering nanogeology research, advancing our understanding of plastic deformation in minerals using innovative 2D and 3D analytical techniques in tectonics and structural geology.

Stephan Mueller Medal Lecture by Heidrun Kopp.
The award recognizes Prof. Kopp innovative research and groundbreaking discoveries in convergent margin systems, large earthquake processes, active fault slip, magmatic arc systems and geohazards.

The Geodesy Division medal and award ceremony will feature the Geodesy Division Early Career Scientists (ECS) Award presentation given by Matthias Schartner and the Vening Meinesz Medal lecture by René Forsberg.

In this session we celebrate the 2025 awardees of the Atmospheric Sciences division through the Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal Lecture by Ulrike Lohmann and the Atmospheric Sciences Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Dominik Stolzenburg.