DVW PhD Award confered to Matthias Willen

The DVW PhD Award 2025 was conferred upon Matthias Willen for his outstanding doctoral thesis entitled “On the quantification of ice sheet mass changes and glacial isostatic adjustment effects by combining satellite data.” DVW President Prof. Rudolf Staiger presented him the award at INTERGEO in Frankfurt am Main on 8 October 2025.

Linked to the award, Matthias Willen presented the topic of his doctoral thesis in the DVW's geodesy podcast “Welten vernetzen” (Connecting Worlds) with Susanne Kleemann and Christopher Nagel (link to the podcast episode “Polarforschung hautnah: Wie Geodäsie Eismassen sichtbar macht” (Polar Research Up Close: How Geodesy Makes Ice Masses Visible)).