28.09.2022

German Mineralogical Society honors Tübingen geoscientist

Eric Runge receives Paul Ramdohr Award for excellent talk

Eric Runge, PhD student at the University of Tübingen’s Department of Geosciences, was selected for the prestigious Paul Ramdohr Award of the German Mineralogical Society (Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft, DMG). The award honors outstanding contributions by junior scientists to the DMG’s annual conference. Eric Runge convinced the DMG by giving an excellent talk entitled “The taphonomic fate of biominerals in hydrothermal sulfide systems – implications for the reconstruction of microbial life in deep time” at this year’s GeoMinKöln conference, held mid-September in Cologne. The Paul Ramdohr Award is endowed with 500 euros and will be officially presented as part of the DMG’s annual conference 2023.

Eric Runge’s PhD project focuses on deep time geobiology and is part of the work of an Emmy Noether junior research group led by Jan-Peter Duda (now Professor of Geobiology at the University of Göttingen) and associated with Professor Andreas Kapplers’s Geomicrobiology Group in Tübingen’s Department of Geosciences. Duda’s team investigate the geobiology of modern and fossil deep-sea hydrothermal systems. They are examining geological records to reconstruct the interplay between life and environment across geological time. Particularly the analysis of the oldest known deep-sea hydrothermal spring deposits can greatly contribute to our understanding of where and under which conditions life on our planet might have originated.

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