Wilhelm Lauer Prize 2025 awarded to geographer Dr. Dagmar Brombierstäudl

Geographer Dr. Dagmar Brombierstäudl has been awarded this year's Wilhelm Lauer Prize for her outstanding dissertation entitled "Exploring aufeis in the Trans-Himalaya: Remote sensing-based studies of a neglected cryosphere component." The official award ceremony by the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz and the Wilhelm Lauer Foundation will take place on the evening of September 27, 2025, in Augsburg.

The Wilhelm Lauer Foundation, established at the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz, awards an annual prize for an outstanding, original dissertation or research work (e.g., postdoctoral thesis, cumulative dissertations, and postdoctoral theses included) in the fields of geography, landscape ecology, and high mountain research—the founder's main areas of research. The work, which must be of outstanding quality and completed shortly before the award ceremony, should be oriented toward the founder's fields of research and represent a substantial gain in knowledge in these areas.