Doctoral researchers Felix Augustin (Tübingen) and Jonas Preine (Hamburg) are to receive the 2023 Bernd Rendel Prize by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) for their promising and original geoscientific research prior to obtaining a doctorate. They were selected by a jury made up of members of the DFG’s review boards in the geosciences.

The prizewinners will each receive €2,000 from the Bernd Rendel Foundation, which is administered by Stifterverband, a joint initiative started by companies and foundations and dedicated to the promotion of science and the humanities in Germany. The prize money is intended to enable them to pursue academic activities such as attending international conferences and meetings. The prize will be awarded at the annual meeting of the German Geological Society, which will take place from 3 to 7 September 2023 in Berlin.