Galina Churkina
Galina Churkina, a guest senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, has won the inaugural Aquila Capital Transformation Award.
The €20,000 ($24,221) award, given by European real asset manager Aquila Capital Investment GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, is intended to support research for mitigating climate change.
Ms. Churkina s research paper Buildings as a Global Carbon Sink was selected as the winning entry, according to a Dec. 17 news release.
The award was open to younger scientists worldwide whose work relates to sustainability, climate change and the transformation of energy systems, with a particular geographic emphasis on Europe. The theme of the inaugural award was Accelerating Decarbonization in Europe.