Outstanding Poster Award

The Outstanding Poster Award has been established in 2009, to highlight good quality posters presented at the EMS Annual Meetings.

As the goal of this poster award is to foster the clear communication of scientific content also to non-specialists of the presented topic, the emphasis of the evaluation is put on the attractiveness of the graphical representation and on the clarity of the text. Only posters which satisfy the communication criteria are taken into consideration for the evaluation from a scientific point of view. Find more details at the Terms for the Outstanding Poster Award below.

Award Poster at the EMS 2023: Quantifying the synergy of environmental stressors on human mortality

OPA2023 PosterThe work by Theodoros Economou from Climate and Atmosphere Research Center (CARE-C), The Cyprus Institute, and his colleagues Daphne Parliari (Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki),  Jonilda Kushta (CARE-C, Cyprus) and Jos Lelieveld (CARE-C, Cyprus and MPI for Chemistry, Mainz) presents results from a study that considers the compound effects of heat and air pollution on mortality (abstract).

The authors took a novel approach to investigate a growing societal problem in this study, also reflecting the 2023 conference theme of ‘Europe and droughts: Hydrometeorological processes, forecasting and preparedness‘, and  informs on strategies for combating these environmental stresses.

Terms Outstanding Poster Award

As the goal of this poster award is to foster the clear communication of scientific content also to non-specialists of the presented topic, the emphasis of the evaluation is put on the attractiveness of the graphical representation and on the clarity of the text. Only posters which satisfy the communication criteria will be taken into consideration for the evaluation from a scientific point of view.

Communication criteria:
  • Attractive graphical representation
  • Clear and concise text
  • Intuitive structure
Scientific aspects:
  • Scientific quality
  • Potential impacts of the results
  • Innovativeness of the approach

The author(s) receive one registration fee waiver for the EMS Annual Meeting in the following year, and the posters are highlighted on the EMS website as example of Best Practice.

A selection committee of five senior scientists is established each year.