Tilly Edinger Award

The Tilly Edinger Award is aimed at young researchers (up to 5 years post-doctoral) and is awarded for outstanding research achievements within paleontology and related disciplines with a paleontological focus. With this award, the Paläontologische Gesellschaft commemorates the paleontolgist Tilly Edinger (1897-1967), who established the field of comparative palaeoneurology.

The selection focuses on the interdisciplinarity, innovation, and methodological diversity.

To be submitted:
- a cover letter highlighting the interdisciplinarity, innovation, and methodological diversity of the research achievements;
- a short CV (max. 5 pages) with the usual documents, including

• a list of publications
• a link to Google Scholar, ResearchGate, or a comparable online platform
• five selected publications or link(s) to them, if Open Access

The five most promising applications will be selected and the researchers will be invited to give a presentation at the Geo4Göttingen (Sept. 14-18, 2025). The quality of the presentation will be taken into account in the final decision on the award. The award will be presented at the end of the annual meeting and is endowed with 2000 euros and one year‘s membership fee for the Paläontologische Gesellschaft.

Submission should be in electronic form as a single pdf file, preferably via email, to info@palges.de. If application materials exceed 10 MB, please use upload services such as Swisstransfer or WeTransfer (Google Drive and Dropbox are problematic according to many universities' policies). Application deadline is June 30, 2025. For more information, please contact the office at info(at)palges.de

Tilly Edinger (1897 - 1967) embodied the virtues that characterize the award named after her: scientific interest, courage to break new ground, and determination to set and achieve (scientific) goals.

The founder of paleoneurology and internationally highly respected scientist had to leave Germany after 1933 and found a new home in the USA. Despite her negative experiences in Germany, after the Second World War she devoted her entire personality to restoring recognition to German paleontologists.