The Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Prize, awarded in recognition of outstanding scientific achievements by early-career researchers, was presented this year to Dr. Eva Stüeken (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) for her fundamental contributions to the field of isotope geochemistry.
Dr. Stüeken's research on the isotopic compositions of selenium, sulfur, and nitrogen in Precambrian systems is highly innovative and of exceptional quality, both in terms of methodological development and data interpretation. Based on her isotope geochemical studies, she has been able to reconstruct the coupled evolution of environmental conditions on the early Earth and the metabolic pathways of the earliest organisms.
