Travel Award
The Climate Travel Award was launched in 2017, and it is presented every year to encourage junior scientists to present their latest research at academic conferences in the field of climate processes, which helps them to grow their profiles. The application process is open from April to October every year, and winners are announced by the end of December.
Prize:
– CHF 800;
– A certificate.
Number of Winners: 1
Climate Travel Award
Application deadline: 31 October 2025
Winner announcement: 31 December 2025
Winner announcement: 31 December 2025
Eligibility and Requirements
– Postdoctoral fellows or PhD students;– Plans to attend an international conference in 2026 (oral presentation or poster).
List of Documents for Application
– Information of the conference that the applicant is planning to attend and the abstract that will be submitted;– Curriculum vitae and a list of publications;
– Justification letter describing the focus of the research (max. 800 words);
– Letter of recommendation from their supervisor, research director, or department head, which also confirms the applicant’s status.
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Parisa Hosseinzadehtalaei
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ghent University, Belgium
Award Committee
Dr. Timothy G. F. Kittel
Chairman
University of Colorado Boulder
Dr. Teodoro Georgiadis
Institute for the BioEconomy - IBE
Dr. Milton Speer
Winner
Chongyang Zhang
Lanzhou University
Award Committee
Dr. Timothy G. F. Kittel
Chairman
University of Colorado Boulder
Prof. Salvatore Magazu'
Unversity of Messina
Prof. Dr. Chiara Bertolin
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Dr. Ying Ouyang
USDA Forest Service
Winner
Elena Ceballos
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Award Committee
Dr. Timothy G. F. Kittel
Chairman
University of Colorado Boulder
Dr. Nir Y Krakauer
Prof. Dr. Rui A. P. Perdigão
Meteoceanics Institute for Complex System Science
Prof. Salvatore Magazu'
Unversity of Messina
Winner
Pavani Misra
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Award Committee
Dr. Steven McNulty
Chairman
USDA Forest Service
Dr. Forrest M. Hoffman
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Prof. Salvatore Magazu'
Unversity of Messina
Dr. Ying Ouyang
USDA Forest Service
Winner
Agostino Niyonkuru Meroni
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Platon Patlakas
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Award Committee
Dr. Steven McNulty
Chairman
USDA Forest Service
Dr. Jack Barkenbus
Prof. Mst Santamouris
UNSW
Dr. Nektarios N. Kourgialas
Hellenic Agricultural Organization “DIMITRA” / Water Resources, Irrigation & Env. Geoinformatics Lab.
Prof. Dr. Chiara Bertolin
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Prof. Charles Jones
University of California Santa Barbara
Dr. Teodoro Georgiadis
Institute for the BioEconomy - IBE
Prof. Daniele Bocchiola
Politecnico di Milano
Dr. Chris G. Tzanis
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Prof. Wen-Cheng Liu
National United University
Dr. Konstantia Tolika
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dr. Mohammad Valipour
Department of Engineering and Engineering Technology, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO 80217, USA
Winner
Christopher A Armatas
Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education
marco reale
OGS-ICTP
Award Committee
Dr. Guohe Huang
Chairman
University of Regina
Dr. Jack Barkenbus
Dr. Menglin Jin
Dr. Teodoro Georgiadis
Institute for the BioEconomy - IBE
Prof. Daniele Bocchiola
Politecnico di Milano
Dr. Nicole Mölders
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Prof. Dr. Hyo Choi
Atmospheric and Oceanic Disaster Research Institute
Prof. Evgenios Agathokleous
Nanjing Univ. of Information Science & Technology
Prof. William Davis
Dr. Chris G. Tzanis
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Dr. Andreas Gobiet
Prof. Wen-Cheng Liu
National United University
Prof. Mst Santamouris
UNSW
Dr. Nektarios N. Kourgialas
Hellenic Agricultural Organization “DIMITRA” / Water Resources, Irrigation & Env. Geoinformatics Lab.
Prof. Dr. Chiara Bertolin
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Prof. Charles Jones
University of California Santa Barbara
Dr. Konstantia Tolika
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dr. Soni Pradhanang
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND
Prof. Matteo Convertino
Tsinghua University
Dr. Mohammad Valipour
Department of Engineering and Engineering Technology, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO 80217, USA
Prof. Dalia Streimikiene
Lithuanian Energy Institute
Winner
Spyridon Paparrizos
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany.
