Andre Peters, Tobias Hohenbrink, Sascha Iden, Rien van Genuchten and Wolfgang Durner have won the Jim Dooge Award 2023 for their article "Prediction of the Absolute Hydraulic Conductivity Function from Soil Water Retention Data." This prize is awarded by the European Geosciences Union for the best articles in the journal Hydrology and Earth System Science. According to the official announcement, the nomination and selection criteria are based on the outstanding scientific and presentational quality of the study. We warmly congratulate the authors on this achievement!