Honors for HITS group leaders at the KIT “Ehrenabend“

At the “Ehrenabend des Präsidenten” (“Honorary Evening of the President”) in late November, the leadership of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) recognized scientific achievements and social commitment of its researchers.

Among the awardees were two HITS researchers who also teach at KIT:  Tilmann Gneiting, head of the Computational Statistics group and current Scientific Director at HITS, and Alexandros Stamatakis, head of the Computational Molecular Evolution group.

The President honored the two scientists for their outstanding research achievements:

Tilmann Gneiting had received the 2024 Ulf Grenander Prize in Stochastic Theory and Modeling for seminal work on the theory of forecasting and applications to meteorology.

For nine years running, Alexandros Stamatakis has been identified as one of the most cited researchers worldwide, according to the “Highly Cited Researchers” list from Clarivate. The ranking is an important indicator for the impact of a researcher’s scientific publications.

Pictures: Markus Breig, KIT