Call for Applications for the 2025 Max-Margules-Award
In commemoration of famous Austrian meteorologist Max Margules (1856-1920), the Austrian Meteorological Society ÖGM has established the Max-Margules-Award. The award is given every three years to young scientists for a high quality paper published in one of the most recent three volumes of its scholarly journal Meteorologische Zeitschrift.
Applicant(s) must have been no more than 34 years old at the time of submission of his (their) paper for publication. The award may be split among co-authors if they have made corresponding contributions to the papers.
How and where to apply
Austrian Meteorological Society ÖGM cordially invites young colleagues who qualify to apply for the 2025 Max-Margules-Award by submitting the PDF-file of their Met.Z. paper, published in volumes 31-33 of Met.Z.
The application email must be accompanied by a
curriculum vitae (CV) and a document proving the age of the
applicant(s).
The recipient(s) will be selected by the Max-Margules-Award committee
in 2026.
Please address any questions concerning the Max-Margules-Award to
office@meteorologie.at (Subject: Margules Award 2025)
The 2023 Max-Margules-Award was awarded to Markos Budusa Ware as first author of: Budusa Ware, M.; Mori, P.; Warrach-Sagi, K.; Jury, M.; Schwitalla, T.; Beyene, Kinfe H.; Wulfmeyer, V.: Climate regionalization using objective multivariate clustering methods and characterization of climatic regions in Ethiopia, MetZet Vol. 31 No. 6 (2022), p. 431-453
The 2020-Max Margules-Award went to Daniel Fenner for his paper: Fenner, D.; Meier, F.; Bechtel, B.; Otto, M.; Scherer, D.: Intra and inter ‘local climate zone’ variability of air temperature as observed by crowdsourced citizen weather stations in Berlin, Germany, MetZet Vol. 26 No. 5 (2017), p. 525-547
The 2017 Max-Margules-Award was awarded to Franceso Isotta as lead author of the publication Isotta, F.A.; Vogel, R.; Frei, Ch.: Evaluation of European regional reanalyses and downscalings for precipitation in the Alpine region, MetZet Vol. 24, 15-37, 2015