Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award of the EGU to Dr. Karin Dissauer

Award ceremony at the EGU General Assembly in Vienna, where Karin Dissauer receives the 2025 Early Career Award of the EGU Solar-Terrestrial Sciences Division. Image Credit: Harald Penasso

The 2025 Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award of the Solar-Terrestrial Sciences Division of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) has been awarded to Karin Dissauer for her outstanding research in solar and extra-solar space weather research. The award was presented at the EGU General Assembly that took place in Vienna from 2025 April 27 to May 2 and that gathered more than 20,000 scientists from 120 countries. As the award laudatio highlights:

“Karin Dissauer has become one of the most prominent Early Career Scientists of her generation in the field of solar and extra-solar space weather research. She received her PhD in 2018 from the University of Graz, Austria and after being a postdoctoral researcher for a few years at Graz and NorthWest Research Associates (NWRA), Boulder, she was promoted as a full research scientist at the NWRA.

In her research, Dissauer has focused on analyzing the relationships between coronal dimmings and solar/stellar eruptions (coronal mass ejections and flares). Dissauer’s recent work has in particular highlighted the importance of small-scale magnetic activity in the corona and chromosphere before flaring takes place and differences between flaring and non-flaring active regions. She has also developed new methods for detecting coronal dimmings by using interdisciplinary statistical approaches from other fields. Dissauer has nearly 40 papers in refereed journals of the field and she has been invited to give a talk on multiple occasions. She is very active in the scientific community, including being part of NASA/ESA mission teams and in the public outreach. Despite being in the early career phase, Dissauer is the Principal Investigator of several significant research projects and she co-leads an International Space Science Institute (ISSI) team.”

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