The Kristian Birkeland Medal

Prof. Yoshizumi Miyoshi is an internationally renowned researcher and an expert scientist in magnetospheric physics and space weather, particularly in the dynamics of the radiation belts ...read more

The Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal

Dr Carolus J. Schrijver is awarded the Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal for Space Weather and Space Climate in recognition of his long and distinguished history of innovative research, outstanding leadership, ...read more

The Alexander Chizhevsky Medal

Dr. Theodosios Chatzistergos is an outstanding young scientist with a truly pan-European profile. He obtained his MSc in Astrophysics, with distinction, from Queen Mary University, London, in 2013 ...read more

The Kristian Birkeland Medal

In 1997, Charles Nickolos Arge obtained his PhD at the University of Delaware/Bartol Research Institute on the topic of Astrophysical Magnetic Fields in Partially Ionized Gases ... read more

The Alexander Chizhevsky Medal

Dr. Claudio Cesaroni took his PhD in Geophysics (Ionospheric physics) in 2015 at the University “Alma Mater Studiorum” of Bologna and contributed remarkably to research in ... read more

The Kristian Birkeland Medal

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 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

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

The Kristian Birkeland Medal

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 (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. 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

The Kristian Birkeland Medal

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

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. 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

The Kristian Birkeland Medal

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

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

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

The Kristian Birkeland Medal

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

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

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

The Kristian Birkeland Medal

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 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 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

The Kristian Birkeland Medal

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 Baron Marcel Nicolet Medal

Christine Amory-Mazaudier is a gifted scientist, with more than 90 space weather papers ...read more

Dr. David Berghmans was present at the foundation of space weather in ...read more

The Alexander Chizhevsky Medal

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

The Kristian Birkeland Medal

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 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

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.

The Kristian Birkeland Medal

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

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

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