Honours for Jonathan Donges and Jakob Runge
Jonathan Donges received the Wladimir Peter Köppen Prize for his achievements in modelling the climate system. The award of the Cluster of Excellence CliSAP (Integrated Climate System Analysis and Prediction) in Hamburg honours outstanding doctoral theses of young scientists under the age of thirty years. The jury described Donges dissertation, submitted to Berlin’s Humboldt University, as an innovative and outstanding contribution to current climate research.
A highly endowed scholarship of the James S. McDonnell Foundation, the Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in Studying Complex Systems, was granted to Jakob Runge.