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MAL – Medal & Award Lectures and Celebrations

MAL0
EGU Award & Medal Celebration
Convener: Peter van der Beek
MAL1
Alexander von Humboldt Medal Lecture by Sachchida Nand Tripathi
Convener: Peter van der Beek
MAL2
Alfred Wegener Medal Lecture by Trevor John McDougall
Convener: Peter van der Beek
MAL3
Arthur Holmes Medal Lecture by Paul Tackley
Convener: Peter van der Beek
MAL4
Jean Dominique Cassini Medal Lecture by Raymond Pierrehumbert
Convener: Peter van der Beek
MAL6-HS
Arne Richter Award for Outstanding ECS Lecture by Frederik Kratzert
Convener: Alberto Viglione
MAL7-NH
Arne Richter Award for Outstanding ECS Lecture by Mariana Madruga de Brito
Convener: Heidi Kreibich
MAL9
Champion(s) for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award Lecture by Claudia Jesus-Rydin
Convener: Alberto Montanari | Co-convener: Lisa Wingate
MAL10-EOS
Katia and Maurice Krafft Award Lecture by Heather Handley
Convener: Solmaz MohadjerECSECS
MAL11-GD

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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Convener: Jeroen van Hunen | Co-convener: Laetitia Le Pourhiet
MAL12-GI

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.

Convener: Pietro Tizzani | Co-convener: Raffaele Castaldo
MAL13-OS
Fridtjof Nansen Medal Lecture by Tatiana Ilyina and OS Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Jens Terhaar
Convener: Johan van der Molen
MAL14-CL
Hans Oeschger Medal Lecture by Heather Marie Stoll
Convener: Kerstin Treydte
MAL15-HS
Henry Darcy Medal Lecture by Jan Seibert
Convener: Alberto Viglione
MAL16-ESSI
Ian McHarg Medal Lecture by Lesley Wyborn and ESSI Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Marthe Klöcking
Convener: Jens Klump
MAL17-SSP

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.

Solicited authors:
Donald Prothero
Convener: Cinzia Bottini | Co-convener: Jorijntje Henderiks
MAL18-HS
John Dalton Medal Lecture by Paolo D'Odorico
Convener: Alberto Viglione
MAL19-CR
Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal Lecture by Shin Sugiyama and Arne Richter Award for Outstanding ECS Lecture by Brice Noël
Convener: Carleen Tijm-Reijmer | Co-convener: Daniel Farinotti
MAL20-ST
Julius Bartels Medal Lecture by Richard Horne
Convener: Emilia Kilpua
MAL21-NP
Lewis Fry Richardson Medal Lecture by Vincenzo Carbone and NP Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Johannes Jakob Lohmann
Convener: François G. Schmitt
MAL22-CL
Milutin Milanković Medal Lecture by Zhengyu Liu
Convener: Kerstin Treydte
MAL23-EMRP
Petrus Peregrinus Medal Lecture by Nils Olsen and EMRP Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Carolina Giorgetti
Convener: Sergio Vinciguerra
MAL24-SSS
Philippe Duchaufour Medal Lecture by Wulf Amelung and SSS Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Katerina Georgiou
Convener: Heike Knicker
MAL25-NH
Plinius Medal Lecture by Annegret Henriette Thieken
Convener: Heidi Kreibich
MAL26-GM
Ralph Alger Bagnold Medal Lecture by Christopher D. Clark
Convener: Kristen Cook
MAL27-GMPV
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal Lecture by Trevor Russell Ireland
Convener: Holly Stein
MAL28-PS

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.

Solicited authors:
Cathy Quantin-Nataf
Convener: Anezina Solomonidou | Co-conveners: Joana S. Oliveira, Lena Noack
MAL29-NH
Sergey Soloviev Medal Lecture by Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano
Convener: Heidi Kreibich
MAL30-TS

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.

Convener: Paola Vannucchi | Co-convener: João Duarte
MAL31-G
Vening Meinesz Medal Lecture by René Forsberg and G Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Matthias Schartner
Convener: Annette Eicker
MAL32-AS
Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal Lecture by Ulrike Lohmann and AS Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Dominik Stolzenburg
Convener: Philip Stier
MAL33-BG
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal Lecture by Corinne Le Quéré and BG Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Getachew Agmuas Adnew
Convener: Lisa Wingate
MAL36-CL
CL Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Kai Kornhuber
Convener: Kerstin Treydte
MAL38-ERE
ERE Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Iman Rahimzadeh Kivi
Convener: Viktor J. Bruckman
MAL42-GM
GM Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Jana Eichel
Convener: Kristen Cook
MAL43-GMPV
GMPV Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Renée Jade Tamblyn
Convener: Holly Stein
MAL47-SM
SM Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Brandon Paul VanderBeek
Convener: Alice-Agnes Gabriel
MAL49-ST
ST Division Outstanding ECS Award Lecture by Karin Dissauer
Convener: Emilia Kilpua