Former AMGC’er and now Professor Matthias Sinnesael (Trinity College Dublin) is the laureate of the 2026 European Geoscience Union "Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Paleontology (SSP) Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award" for his pionneering work in Cyclostratigraphy and Astrochronology.
Check out the EGU laudatio here, and check Matthias personal website for more info.
Matthias obtained his PhD from AMGC (FWO fellowship) in 2020 working with Philippe Claeys. AMGC is very proud to celebrate this award. Especially because Matthias is not the first AMGC'er to receive this honor, he follows David De Vleeschouwer in 2016 and Niels de Winter in 2021.
The Award ceremony took place this Wednesday 6 May at the EGU meeting in Vienna. Matthias gave an excellent talk about his IODP research titled “Onset of strong Iceland-Scotland overflow water 3.6 million years ago”. In fact Matthias gave 3 talks this day. The first one, in the morning, in the session “Mass extinctions through time” on his published work at Gubbio, and on top of his own award talk, at the last minute he replaced the absent first author to present “Integrated stratigraphy and Bayesian age modeling at Tiout (Anti-Atlas, Marocco) constrain early Cambrian 13C excursions and trilobite radiation”, which he co-authored. Good job Mat.
A great dinner with other old AMGC’ers and friends concluded this fantastic day.