CEAS Distinguished Service Award
Every year the CEAS Distinguished Service Award is given to individuals who have demonstrated a great dedication to the aerospace community.
Every year the national societies put forward nominees for this award that recognizes personal dedication to the aerospace community.
Upon review, the Awards committee selects a winner and recommends the person to the board of CEAS.
Past Winners
2024
Dr. Jean-Pierre Sanfourche
Dr. Jean-Pierre Sanfourche for his long-term dedicated service to CEAS and the entire European
Aerospace Community as Editor-in-Chief of CEAS Aerospace Europe Bulletin.
2023
Prof. Zdobyslaw Goraj
Professor Goraj has made many highly significant contributions in the aeronautical engineering.
2022
Dr. Dietrich Knörzer
Dietrich Knörzer for his many years of dedicated service as Scientific Officer at DG Research in Brussels in support of European cooperation in aeronautics R&D.
2020
Mercedes Oliver
Mercedes Oliver Herrero for her many years of tireless dedication to CEAS in her roles as Director General and Finance Manager.
2016
Constantinos Stavrinidis
Prof. Dr. Constantinos Stavrinidis for his outstanding commitment to promoting scientific excellence and the dissemination of technical knowledge, as well as to strengthening and uniting the European space sector.