'The Ragnhild Neumann Award for Women in Geosciences' goes to a woman who, through her Ph.D. or his work as a postdoctoral fellow has made a significant contribution to geotechnical research. The nominee should reside in Norway at the time of nomination. The award is named after Else-Ragnhild Neumann, Norway's first professor of geology.
The prize winner for 2024 is Joanna Dziadkowiec, a researcher at the NJORD research centre, University of Oslo (UiO). She took her doctorate at the Department of Physics, UiO in 2019, with the thesis "Interactions between Confined Calcite Surfaces in Aqueous Solutions: A surface forces apparatus study".
The jury justifies the award as follows: for her impressive academic track-record, the scientific quality of her papers and her capacity in getting external funding. The award committee highlight that she has published 12 articles, with 10 as the lead author (8 as the first author and 2 as the corresponding author), in top journals in mineralogy and chemistry. Two of her first-authored articles are cited more than 50 times.
Read more about the nomination, prize winner and the jury on the prize's webpages.
About the prize 'The Else-Ragnhild Neumann Award'
The Else-Ragnhild Neumann Award for Women in Geosciences goes to women who, through their research work as a Ph.D. or postdoctoral fellow has made a significant contribution within research in geosciences. The award consists of a diploma and an honorarium of NOK 50,000. The nominee should reside in Norway at the time of nomination
The Center for Planetary Habitability/PHAB in collaboration with the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo is awarding the prize named after Else-Ragnhild Neumann, Norway's first female professor of geology. It was awarded for the first time at the symposium / 80th anniversary of Else-Ragnhild Neumann in 2018, and has been awarded annually thereafter.
Read more about the award, nomination and see previous award winners on the websites: