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Simon Rosanka and Jan Sch枚nig to receive prize at the annual meeting of the German Geological Society in Karlsruhe at the end of September

Two researchers will receive the Bernd Rendel Prize 2021 awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (快三砍龙, German Research Foundation) for conducting promising and original geoscientific research at the beginning of their careers: Simon Rosanka, a doctoral student at the University of Cologne and Forschungszentrum J眉lich, and Jan Sch枚nig, a doctoral student at the University of G枚ttingen, were selected by a jury made up of members of the 快三砍龙 review boards in the geosciences. The prizewinners will each receive 鈧�2,000 from the Bernd Rendel Foundation, which is administered by the Stifterverband f眉r die Deutsche Wissenschaft, an association dedicated to the promotion of the humanities and sciences in Germany. The prize money is intended to enable them to pursue academic activities such as attending international congresses and conferences. The prize will be awarded during the annual conference of the German Geological Society from 19 to 23 September 2021 in Karlsruhe.

The previous year鈥檚 prizewinners will also be honoured on this occasion, since the 2020 award ceremony had to be postponed due to the pandemic: these were Anja Allabar, former doctoral student at the University of T眉bingen, now working at the University of G枚ttingen, and Milad Asgarimehr, former doctoral student at the Technical University of Berlin and the German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam (GFZ) and still employed at the GFZ.

Simon Rosanka impressed the jury with his research achievements and the breadth of his work. Since October 2017, he has been working on his doctorate at the University of Cologne in conjunction with Forschungszentrum J眉lich on 鈥淎 Comprehensive Assessment of the Influence of Oxygenated Volatile Organic Compounds on the Atmospheric Composition鈥�. In his doctoral thesis, Rosanka was able to quantify the contribution of clouds as a sink for tropospheric ozone, thereby making a significant contribution to ensuring that organic acids in the troposphere are no longer underestimated. Also noteworthy is his work establishing the link between the reduction of ozone in the lower stratosphere and the aromatic compounds formed during moorland fires in Indonesia. Rosanka has already published nine papers in recognised journals, five of these as first author. He intends to use the prize money to undertake an extended stay at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton.

Jan Sch枚nig of the Geoscience Center at G枚ttingen University already published eight articles in excellent international journals towards the end of his dissertation, six of them as first author. The jury confirmed the particular originality of his research. Sch枚nig developed a new methodological approach to solving a fundamental question of geoscience 鈥� regarding the beginning of today鈥檚 plate tectonic processes in the Earth鈥檚 history. For the first time, he focused on sedimentary archives by detecting tiny mineral inclusions that are only formed under ultra-high pressure conditions when one Earth plate moves underneath another 鈥� called subduction. In this way, Sch枚nig has significantly increased the chance of detecting subduction processes in the Earth鈥檚 older history, since the indicator minerals in the stable carrier minerals reach the Earth鈥檚 surface in a protected state, ensuring that signals are stored in sediments. Sch枚nig was able to demonstrate the potential of this new method based on examples in from Norway, the Ore Mountains and Papua New Guinea. He intends to use the prize money to attend a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

The 快三砍龙 has awarded the Bernd Rendel Prize every year since 2002 to graduates in the geosciences who have not yet completed their doctorate, enabling them to pursue academic activities such as attending international congresses and conferences. The prize money is administered by the Stifterverband f眉r die Deutsche Wissenschaft. Bernd Rendel was a geology student who died at a young age; the foundation named after him was established in his memory by his family.

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