!!Paola Caselli receives Karl Schwarzschild Medal

__Academia Europaea is pleased to announce that the [German Astronomical Society|https://astronomische-gesellschaft.de/en] (AG) has awarded the prestigious Karl Schwarzschild Medal 2025 to [Prof. Dr. Paola Caselli|Member/Caselli_Paola] MAE, Director of the [Center for astrochemical studies (CAS)|https://www.mpe.mpg.de/CAS] at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching, for her groundbreaking work in the fields of astrochemistry and star formation.__
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Paola Caselli is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching and Honorary Professor at the [Ludwig Maximilian University|https://www.lmu.de/en] of Munich. She was elected as member of [Earth and Cosmics Sciences|Acad_Main/Sections/Earth_cosmic_sciences] section of __Academia Europaea__ this year. She has previously conducted research at [Harvard University|https://www.harvard.edu], the [University of Leeds|https://www.leeds.ac.uk], the [Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri|https://www.arcetri.inaf.it] in Florence, and the [University of California|https://www.berkeley.edu] at Berkeley, among others. Her scientific focus is on the physico-chemical processes in dense molecular clouds, particularly the early phases of star and planet formation. Paola Caselli combines innovative observational methods with theoretical modelling and laboratory astrochemistry. She has contributed significantly to understanding the chemical processes and the role of gas-dust interactions in interstellar and protostellar regions.

!Karl Schwarzschild Medal

The Karl Schwarzschild Medal, named after the astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild, is an award presented by the [Astronomische Gesellschaft|https://astronomische-gesellschaft.de/en] (German Astronomical Society) to eminent astronomers and astrophysicists.
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The German Astronomical Society awards the Karl Schwarzschild Medal to recognize outstanding scientific contributions. The awarding of the medal is accompanied by the Karl Schwarzschild Lecture held at the annual meeting of the AG. The award winner is nominated by the AG's Executive Board.
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!Past Academia Europaea awardees of the Karl Schwarzschild Medal (with the title of the Karl Schwarzschild Lecture)

2020 [Friedrich-Karl Thielemann|Member/Thielemann_Friedrich-Karl] MAE, Origin of the Elements in the Universe\\
2011 [Reinhard Genzel|Member/Genzel_Reinhard] MAE, The Massive Black Hole and Galaxies\\
2008 [Rashid Sunyaev|Member/Sunyaev_Rashid] MAE, The Richness and Beauty of the Physics of Cosmological Recombination\\
2005 [Gustav Andreas Tammann|Member/Tammann_Gustav] MAE, The Ups-and-Downs of the Hubble Constant\\
2002 [Charles Hard Townes|Member/Townes_Charles] MAE, The Behavior of Stars Observed by Infrared Interferometry\\
2000 [Roger Penrose|Member/Penrose_Roger] MAE, The Schwarzschild Singularity: one Clue to Resolving the Quantum Measurement Paradox\\
1994 [Joachim Trümper|Member/Trümper_Joachim] MAE, X-rays from Neutron Stars\\
1989 [Martin Rees|Member/Rees_Martin] MAE, Is there a massive black hole in every galaxy\\
1987 [Lodewijk Woltjer|Member/Woltjer_Lodewijk] MAE, The future of European astronomy\\
1974 [Cornelis de Jager|Member/Jager_Cornelis] MAE, Dynamik von Sternatmosphären\\
1971 [Antony Hewish|Member/Hewish_Antony] MAE, Three years with pulsars
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