Rixiang Zhu 2020 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2020 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to Rixiang Zhu for his outstanding accomplishments in magnetism and paleomagnetism and his extraordinary support of the scientific community. Read more
Wenlu Zhu 2020 Louis Néel Medal The 2020 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to Wenlu Zhu for her exceptional contributions to understanding coupling between fluids and rock deformation and in recognition of her role in promoting women in science and rock physics globally. Read more
Catherine Kissel 2019 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2019 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to Catherine Kissel for outstanding contributions in palaeomagnetism, applied to understanding the Earth’s magnetic field, palaeoclimate, palaeoceanography and the geodynamic evolution of the Mediterranean margins. Read more
Chris Marone 2019 Louis Néel Medal The 2019 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to Chris Marone for seminal contributions to the understanding of fault mechanics and earthquake generating processes, and for innovation in experimental techniques and apparatus development. Read more
Leonie Pick 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Leonie Pick Historical geomagnetic storm drivers determined exclusively from ground-based magnetometer measurements Read more
Harry W. Green II 2018 Louis Néel Medal The 2018 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to Harry W. Green II for his seminal contributions to the mechanism of deep-focus earthquakes, rock rheology, mantle dynamics and the dramatic improvement of a solid pressure-medium apparatus. Read more
Katarzyna Dudzisz 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Katarzyna Dudzisz Rock magnetism of the Lower Triassic sedimentary rocks from Spitsbergen Read more
Marco M. Scuderi 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Marco M. Scuderi for his exceptional seminal contributions to our understanding of fault mechanics and earthquake physics via important fundamental advances and high-quality papers on a broad range of problems on rock physics. Read more
Mioara Mandea 2018 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2018 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to Mioara Mandea for defining the nature of the geomagnetic field, particularly abrupt changes in secular variation known as geomagnetic jerks, and for advancing observatory and satellite data collection and analysis. Read more
Christopher J. Spiers 2017 Louis Néel Medal The 2017 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to Christopher J. Spiers for outstanding contributions to the quantitative understanding of long-term creep and frictional properties of rocks undergoing solution-precipitation processes. Read more
John A. Tarduno 2017 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2017 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to John A. Tarduno in recognition of the creative and innovative character of his research, including his seminal studies on the evolution of the early Earth’s magnetic field. Read more
Marie Violay 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Marie Violay for her outstanding research in the field of experimental rock physics and novel understanding of the role of fluids in fault mechanics and in geothermal systems. Read more
Tao Huang 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Tao Huang Statistical study of field-aligned currents and and equivalent currents based on Swarm constellation Read more
Agris Gailitis 2016 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2016 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to Agris Gailitis in recognition of his wide-ranging contributions to magnetohydrodynamics including the conception and realisation of the world’s first laboratory self-exciting fluid dynamo in Riga. Read more
Luke Griffiths 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Luke Griffiths A new setup for studying thermal microcracking through acoustic emission monitoring Read more
Peter C. Lippert 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Peter C. Lippert for his outstanding achievements in rock physics and palaeomagnetism with fundamental insights in palaeoceanography and continental tectonics. Read more
Philip Meredith 2016 Louis Néel Medal The 2016 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to Philip Meredith for his many contributions in rock physics and geomechanics, which are of a fundamental and profound nature, and for his role in stimulating international collaboration and interdisciplinary research. Read more
Alexandra Kushnir 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Alexandra Kushnir What about temperature? Measuring permeability at magmatic conditions Read more
Carlo Laj 2015 Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership The 2015 Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership is awarded to Carlo Laj for seminal contributions in tectonics, marine stratigraphy (palaeoceanography) and geomagnetism (palaeomagnetism). Read more
Toshihiko Shimamoto 2015 Louis Néel Medal The 2015 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to Toshihiko Shimamoto for his outstanding contributions to fault and earthquake mechanics, in particular his research on fault weakening mechanisms at high slip rates. Read more
Ian Main 2014 Louis Néel Medal The 2014 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to Ian Main for his sustained and exceptional contributions across a wide range of topics including earthquake scaling, hazard and fluid movements in hydrocarbons reservoirs. Read more
Rob van der Voo 2014 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2014 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to Rob van der Voo for his prodigious contributions to palaeomagnetism, global tectonics and rock magnetism that make him a pioneer and a leading authority in the geosciences overall. Read more
Cristiana Stefan 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Cristiana Stefan Long-term external effects in annual means from observatory and main field models Read more
Dominique Jault 2013 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2013 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to Dominique Jault for outstanding research in geomagnetism and the dynamics of the Earth’s core. His seminal work linking changes in the length of day to core flows consistent with the geomagnetic secular variation helped establish a new understanding of core processes. His subsequent research has added greatly to our understanding of the Earth’s deep interior. Read more
Mark Zoback 2013 Louis Néel Medal The 2013 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to Mark Zoback for his outstanding and seminal contributions to rock physics and geomechanics, in particular for applying geomechanics to solve a wide range of problems of scientific, engineering and economic importance. Read more
Nicolas Brantut 2013 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2013 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Nicolas Brantut for fundamental contributions that elucidated the role of fluids in deep geological processes. Read more
Frank J. Lowes 2012 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2012 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to Frank J. Lowes for innovative research in geomagnetism, notably the first experimental geodynamo model, the spatial geomagnetic power spectrum, error analysis of satellite data, and leadership in the community developing the IGRF. Read more
James R. Rice 2012 Louis Néel Medal The 2012 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to James R. Rice for his seminal contributions to our fundamental understanding of strain localization, poromechanics and friction and his elegant and systematic studies have elucidated fault mechanics and the coupling with hydrologic and thermal processes during all phases of the earthquake cycle. Read more
Mattia Pistone 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Mattia Pistone Rheology of Three-Phase Magmas Read more
Ernest Henry Rutter 2011 Louis Néel Medal The 2011 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to Ernest Henry Rutter for his major experimental and field contributions to our fundamental understanding of the deformation behaviour of the Earth’s lithosphere. In particular, his systematic laboratory studies have led to a greatly improved understanding of natural rock deformation. Read more
Peter L. Olson 2011 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2011 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to Peter L. Olson for his insightful contributions to our understanding of the core mantle interactions by combining theory, numerical models and laboratory fluid dynamics model. Read more
Philip Benson 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Philip Benson for his innovative experimental simulations that have made an outstanding contribution to improving our understanding of volcano-seismic processes. Read more
Audrey Ougier-Simonin 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Audrey Ougier-Simonin Damage and cracking of synthetic and natural glasses subjected to triaxial deformation Read more
Jean Pierre Valet 2010 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2010 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to Jean Pierre Valet for his outstanding contribution to palaeomagnetic data acquisition from sediments and lavas – essential for interpretation of palaeosecular, excursional and transitional regimes of the Earth’s magnetic field over the last millions of years. Read more
Teng-fong Wong 2010 Louis Néel Medal The 2010 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to Teng-fong Wong for his outstanding contributions in rock mechanics. Read more
Christopher A. Jones 2009 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2009 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to Christopher A. Jones for his insightful contributions to our understanding of rotating convection and the mechanism of generation of the magnetic fields of the Earth and other planets. Read more
Eigil Friis-Christensen 2009 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2009 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to Eigil Friis-Christensen for his fundamental contributions to our knowledge of the Earth’s magnetic field from space and his innovative leadership in geomagnetism. Read more
Yves Guéguen 2009 Louis Néel Medal The 2009 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to Yves Guéguen in recognition of his outstanding contributions to mineral and rock physics, including work on the deformation of the Earth’s mantle and the complex interplay of physical, mechanical and transport properties of crustal rocks. Read more
J. Brian Evans 2008 Louis Néel Medal The 2008 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to J. Brian Evans for his internationally acclaimed path-breaking research on the rheology of rocks, his elegant experiments based on physics and materials science, and his discoveries in the relationship between deformation and fluid transport in a variety of geophysical environments. Read more
Neil D. Opdyke 2008 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2008 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to Neil D. Opdyke for pioneering work in magnetic stratigraphy of marine and continental sediments and its contribution to our understanding of the history of the magnetic field and its geological applications. Read more
Andy Jackson 2007 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2007 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to Andy Jackson for his outstanding contributions to the study and knowledge of the historical secular variation of the geomagnetic field. Read more
Friedrich Heller 2007 Louis Néel Medal The 2007 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to Friedrich Heller for his seminal contributions to environmental rock magnetism, in particular the interpretation of magnetic signatures recorded by loess and how they relate to Pleistocene climate shifts. Read more
Dennis V. Kent 2006 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2006 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to Dennis V. Kent for his fundamental contributions to our knowledge of the Earth’s magnetic field in the past and for his leadership in palaeomagnetism. Read more
G. David Price 2006 Louis Néel Medal The 2006 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to G. David Price for establishing the importance of computational mineral physics in Earth sciences and for outstanding contributions to the physics of the Earth’s core. Read more
David L. Kohlstedt 2005 Louis Néel Medal The 2005 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to David L. Kohlstedt for his pioneering research in deformation processes in minerals and rocks, establishing a fundamental physical basis for the rheology of the upper mantle and tectonic processes in oceanic ridges. Read more
Jean-Louis Le Mouël 2005 Petrus Peregrinus Medal The 2005 Petrus Peregrinus Medal is awarded to Jean-Louis Le Mouël for his innovative leadership in a very broad spectrum of topics in geomagnetism. Read more
Subir Banerjee 2004 Louis Néel Medal The 2004 Louis Néel Medal is awarded to Subir Banerjee for his outstanding contributions in rock magnetism, paleomagnetism and environmental magnetism, together with exceptional services to the geoscientific community. Read more
