As part of its annual conference, which took place this year from 24 to 27 February 2025 at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the German Geophysical Society (DGG) honoured outstanding personalities and young scientists for their scientific and teaching achievements in the field of geophysics.
Geophysicist Dr Jana Börner receives the award for outstanding teaching from the German Geophysical Society. She heads the petrophysics laboratory at the Institute of Geophysics and Geoinformatics and teaches methods of applied and general geophysics, such as petrophysics, borehole geophysics, gravimetry, magnetics and geothermics in lectures and tutorials. As a lecturer, she integrates students into measurement campaigns to an exceptional degree, establishes a close link to her own research practice and encourages students to work independently. The nomination for the teaching award was made by the students themselves. They particularly praised ‘the good structuring of the teaching content, the high level of didactic preparation and the detailed and comprehensible lecture notes’. In its statement, the award jury went on to say: ‘Your modules are perfectly coordinated between lectures, exercises and practicals and are broken up by modern elements such as online quizzes.’
‘I'm delighted that the geophysics students have been honoured - the feedback is both praise and an incentive to continue teaching on an equal footing and together with the students, and to inspire them with current research questions.’