The Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) awarded its first Scientific Award Climate Research this month. Among the three winners are two VUB scientists: Niels de Winter and Wim Thiery.
"It is an honour and a privilege to receive this recognition for our research into climate extremes and their impact on humans and the environment," says Prof Thiery. "We will use the prize money to make our website My Climate Future more accessible for young people around the world. I sincerely thank the FWO for putting the climate crisis on the agenda with this prize, and I hope that in the next edition we can honour three talented female laureates."
Prof Thiery received a prestigious ERC consolidator grant for his project on the long-term impact of climate change at the end of last year. ...
VUB climate scientists honoured for research
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