The Else-Ragnhild Neumann Award for Women in Geosciences is awarded to a woman who, through her PhD or her work as a postdoctoral fellow, has made a significant contribution to geoscience research.
Nominees should reside in Norway at the time of nomination. The award is named after Else-Ragnhild Neumann, Norway’s first professor of geology, and has been awarded annually since 2018.
The 2025 award
The recipient of the 2025 Else-Ragnhild Neumann Award is Gabrielle Emma Kleber, a researcher at the Department of Geosciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
The jury justifies the award to Kleber as follows:
for her extraordinarily talent and dedication as scientist. She has published 6 papers, 4 of them as 1st author, with one in Nature Geoscience. She seems to be an inquisitive scientist, heavily involved in field campaigns, but also in teaching and outreach. The award committee also acknowledges her previous experience as a trained engineer, and her activity in the Circumnavigators Club Foundation.
Read more about the nomination, prize winner and the jury on the prize's webpages.
About the '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 website for the award: