
The Geoff Eglinton Presentation 2025
We are proud to announce that Dr. Felix J. Elling, Research Group Leader at Kiel University, will receive the prestigious Geoff Eglinton Award at the 2025 International Meeting of Organic Geochemistry.
His presentation, A novel quinone in Nitrospirota illuminates the evolution of aerobic metabolism, was selected from over 200 submissions by the Scientific Committee for its innovative and groundbreaking research. This talk will open IMOG 2025 on Monday, 8 September.
Join us in recognising Dr. Elling’s outstanding contributions to the field of organic geochemistry.
View preview from Janina Groninga presentation

About The Geoff Eglinton Award
Contributions by the late Prof. Geoff Eglinton to the field of organic geochemistry are widely recognised. He was an inspiration for many in the field (Maxwell 2016) and has thus been honoured as the ‘father of modern organic geochemistry’. To recognise his contribution the EAOG board, together with permission from Geoff’s sons Tim and David, have created an award in his name.Â
The basis of this new award will reflect Geoff’s continual interest in exploring novel ideas, his use of new and innovative techniques, in addition to his passion for presenting his science. From the abstracts submitted for selection to the forthcoming IMOG, the Scientific Committee will decide on the abstract that it feels details the most innovative, novel and ground breaking research.Â
The winner will then be invited to give an oral presentation – the Geoff Eglinton Presentation – that will open each IMOG meeting commencing 2021. This presentation will be allocated an extended time slot to reflect Geoff’s penchant for talking about his science!