Doctoral researchers Katharina Seeger of the University of Cologne and Taina Marcos Lima Pinho of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven are to be awarded this year’s Bernd Rendel Prize by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in recognition of their promising and original pre-doctoral research in the geosciences. They were selected by a jury made up of members of the DFG’s review boards in the geosciences.

The prizewinners will each receive €3,000 from the Bernd Rendel Foundation, which is administered by Stifterverband. The prize money is intended to enable them to pursue academic activities such as attending international conferences and meetings. The prize will be presented at the annual meeting of the German Geological Society – Geological Association (DGGV), which is to take place in Göttingen from 14 to 18 September.