European Astronomical Society - 2022 Prizes

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European Astronomical Society - 2022 Prizes

Tycho Brahe Medal

The 2022 Tycho Brahe Medal is awarded to Dr Jean-Luc Starck (CEA Paris Saclay, France) for the development of novel astro-statistics methods and open source analysis tools which have enabled optimal scientific exploitation of astronomical data obtained from European space and ground based facilities leading to major discoveries in extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology.

Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture

The 2022 Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture is awarded to Prof. Bożena Czerny (Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) for her contributions to our understanding of the physics of accretion disks and the broad line regions in active galactic nuclei, as well as for her application of quasars to constrain the cosmological model at high redshift and open a window on the role of dark energy.

Fritz Zwicky Prize for Astrophysics & Cosmology

The 2022 Fritz Zwicky Prize for Astrophysics & Cosmology is awarded to Prof. Ewine F. van Dishoeck (Leiden University, the Netherlands) for her groundbreaking, decades- spanning, work in observational astrochemistry and molecular spectroscopy, revealing the secrets of molecules from interstellar clouds to star and planet formation, and for her leadership within the astronomical community.

MERAC Prizes

The 2022 MERAC Prizes for the Best PhD Thesis are awarded in

Theoretical Astrophysics

to Dr Helmer Koppelman (the Netherlands) for his multi-faceted approach to the field of galactic archaeology that transformed our understanding of the history and dynamics of the Milky Way.

Observational Astrophysics
to Dr Núria Miret Roig (University of Vienna, Austria) for the discovery of many new

free-floating planets, which illuminated the origin of these exotic nomad planets.

New Technologies (Instrumental)

to Dr Ewelina Obrzud (Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique, Switzerland) for the development of novel laser frequency combs for the accurate calibration and extreme radial velocity-precision of astronomical spectrographs.

All six awardees will give a plenary lecture at the European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2022 to be held in Valencia, Spain, from 27 June to 1 July 2022.