Prizes And Awards
President of German Bundestag Bestows German Study Award
The President of the German Bundestag Norbert Lammert awarded the German Study Award (Deutscher Studienpreis). The first prize this year went to the geologist Hauke Marquardt of the GFZ in the category natural sciences and technology. Marquardt studied geology at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen. He completed his PhD degree at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences. After a research period at the University of California in Berkeley (USA), he now is a research assistant at the GFZ in Potsdam since 2010. With the other two awardees Marquardt shares a prize money of 30,000 Euro. The award is endowed by the Körber Foundation for excellent dissertations which at the same time carry particular social significance.
