The recipient of the EMS Young Scientist Award 2025 is Timo Kelder, The Netherlands, working at the Climate Adaptation Services (CAS) in Bussum, The Netherlands. He was nominated with the publication “How to stop being surprised by unprecedented weather”, Timo Kelder et al., Nature Communications | ( 2025) 16:2382. This paper is a pioneering work that links disaster management and climate adaptation practices. It moreover promotes how society’s anticipation on unprecedented weather can ...