GfÖ - Prizes for scientists
The GfÖ awards prizes for outstanding scientific and applied achievements in ecology, which are presented during the annual conference. Prize proposals for the Horst Wiehe Prize and the GfÖ Prize can be submitted by GfÖ members - in alternating years - by January 31st; the proposals are reviewed by the extended GfÖ Board by March 31st and the prize winners are informed in April. The award ceremony with presentation of the work and projects by the prizewinners takes place in the award session of the GfÖ annual conference.
The awards are tied to the current financial situation, which is why the amount of prize money or the frequency with which they are awarded may be adjusted in individual cases.
The GfÖ Medal of Honor will be awarded annually at the annual GfÖ conference from 2020. The prize is aimed at active, leading ecologists for outstanding and pioneering achievements in ecological research.
Starting in 2025, Basic and Applied Ecology will present an award for outstanding student publications for the first time. The BAAE Best Student Paper Award, which is endowed with EUR 500, is aimed at young researchers and will be presented annually at the GfÖ annual conference.
BAAE Best Student Paper Award
(Prize proposals every year)
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Starting in 2025, the journal Basic and Applied Ecology (BAAE) - the journal of the GfÖ - will present the BAAE Best Student Paper Award for the first time. This prize is awarded annually to an outstanding scientific publication whose first author was enrolled in an MSc or PhD program at the time of submission. The aim is to highlight and promote excellent young research in ecology.
Horst Wiehe Award - prize for the best dissertation 2024
(Prize proposals in odd years)
current award winner:
Dr. Vera Sabine Wersebeckmann
Hochschule Geisenheim University, Germany;
Julius-Kühn-Institut Braunschweig, Germany
... for her outstanding PhD thesis:
"Terracing in steep slope viticulture an its
potential for biodiversity in vineyard
ecosystems"
GfÖ Prize - Prize for the best work 2024
(Prize proposals in even years)
current award winner:
Dr. Rachel Oh Rui Ying
Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ /
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Deutschland
... for her outstanding contribution to advance the
field of ecological research focusing on investigating
linkages of biodiversity and human health and
wellbeing.
Honorary Medal 2024
current award winner:
Prof. em. Dr. DDr. h.c. Christian Körner
University of Basel, Schweiz
... for his outstanding and future-oriented research in
plant ecology, experimental ecology and alpine
ecology
