Giuliano Di Baldasarre has been selected for the Witherspoon Lecture Award by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the world’s largest association of researchers in earth sciences, atmospheric sciences, oceonography, hydrology, planetary sciences and space physics, and has also been awarded the Plinius Medal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU).
“It is pleasing and rewarding to receive attention from the two largest organisations in earth sciences research, it constitutes an endorsement for many years of hard work,” he says.
The recognition does not just mean greater international visibility for Di Baldassarre and his research team; the Department of Earth Sciences and the Centre for Natural Disaster Science (CNDS), of which he is the director, share the glory.
“Receiving these awards will give us an extra energy boost in our day-to-day research. Moreover, international awards can help us play an important role in the advancement of research linked to the interaction between natural disasters and human societies.”
On 6 November, Giuliano Di Baldasarre was awarded another prize, the Thuréus Prize, by The Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala, "for his research on floods, especially complex connections between water flows, population dynamics and sensitivity". The Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala, founded in 1710, is Sweden's oldest learned society and supports Swedish research of the highest quality by awarding prizes to researchers.