Kei Hirose 2024 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal The 2024 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Kei Hirose for outstanding research, combining innovative experimental and analytical techniques, on the behaviour and evolution of the Earth’s deep interior. Read more
Yanhao Lin 2024 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2024 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Yanhao Lin for groundbreaking research on lunar magma ocean crystallisation, and experimental and theoretical work to quantify water contents and volatile cycling from deep mantle to near surface. Read more
Alessia Tagliaferri 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Alessia Tagliaferri Garnet compositional re-adjustment: cooling rate constraint in metapelites from the Lepontine dome (Central European Alps) Read more
Bartosz Puzio 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Bartosz Puzio Estimation of missing third-law standard entropy of apatites using the optimized Volume-based Thermodynamics Read more
Susan L. S. Stipp 2023 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal The 2023 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Susan L. S. Stipp in recognition of her fundamental research and unique applications of nano-geochemistry and mineralogy. Read more
Xin Zhong 2023 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2023 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Xin Zhong for outstanding research in the field of elastic thermobarometry, resulting in many novel applications including the characterization of frictional melts formed during faulting, metamorphism in the deep crust, and the timing of kimberlite ascent. Read more
Austin Arias 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Austin Arias Multidimensional Analysis of Serpentinite Dehydration Networks and Implications for Volatile Flux in Subduction Zones Read more
Fabian B. Wadsworth 2022 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2022 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Fabian B. Wadsworth for outstanding research in the field of experimental volcanology. Read more
Janne Blichert-Toft 2022 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal The 2022 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Janne Blichert-Toft in recognition of fundamental research and unique applications of isotope geochemistry. Read more
Kajetan Chrapkiewicz 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Kajetan Chrapkiewicz Magma chamber imaged beneath an arc volcano Read more
Ludmila Maria Fonseca Teixeira 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Ludmila Maria Fonseca Teixeira Subsolidus crystallization in the A-type Pikes Peak batholith Read more
Marissa Lo 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award The 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award is awarded to Marissa Lo Modelling the ascent of picritic lunar magmas Read more
Michael C. Jollands 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Michael C. Jollands in recognition of his groundbreaking work on ionic diffusion in minerals, with wide application in determining the timescales of geological processes. Read more
Urs Schaltegger 2021 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal The 2021 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Urs Schaltegger in recognition of his fundamental advances in geochronology applied to petrology, geochemistry, mineralogy, and tectonics. Read more
Holly J. Stein 2020 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal The 2020 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Holly J. Stein in recognition of her pioneering development of the rhenium-osmium geochronometer and remarkable array of applications of Re-Os geochemistry. Read more
Pilar Lecumberri-Sanchez 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Pilar Lecumberri-Sanchez for groundbreaking research in the field of hydrothermal processes in the geosciences. Read more
Daniela Rubatto 2019 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal The 2019 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Daniela Rubatto in recognition of fundamental and far-reaching accomplishments in metamorphic petrology, mineralogy, geochronology and tectonics. Read more
Evangelos Moulas 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Evangelos Moulas for his research on understanding and quantifying the dynamic coupling of rock mechanics, solid state diffusion and metamorphic reactions. Read more
Mahyra Tedeschi 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Mahyra Tedeschi Petrochronology of UHT garnet-free granulites: Linking zircon geochemistry to metamorphic reactions Read more
Tom Winder 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Tom Winder The importance of pre-existing structures and stresses to dike-induced earthquakes: The 2014-15 Bárðarbunga-Holuhraun rifting event, Iceland Read more
Alexandra Gutmann 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Alexandra Gutmann Bromine Chemistry in volcanic plumes – Development of in-situ denuder sampling techniques for hydrogen bromine Read more
Andrew Putnis 2018 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal The 2018 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Andrew Putnis for outstanding contributions to our understanding of mineral transformations and mineral-fluid interactions. Read more
Anja Schmidt 2018 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2018 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Anja Schmidt for ground-breaking research in the field of volcanology and on the impacts of volcanic eruptions. Read more
Caron Vossen 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Caron Vossen Can we predict seismogenic failure of single-phase magmatic liquids? Read more
Estelle Bonny 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Estelle Bonny A new perspective on lava lake dynamics from thermal remote sensing Read more
Lisa de Ruiter 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Lisa de Ruiter Quartz dissolution and M-S-H cement precipitation in a high pH ultramafic system Read more
D. Graham Pearson 2017 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal The 2017 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to D. Graham Pearson for outstanding contributions to our understanding of the sub-continental mantle, as well as innovations in geochemical techniques. Read more
Jonas Gliß 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Jonas Gliß Pyplis* | A Python based software package for the analysis of volcanic SO2 emissions using UV SO2 cameras Read more
Pierre Lanari 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Pierre Lanari for outstanding research in thermodynamic modelling of metamorphic rocks, metamorphic petrology and geochronology. His wide skill-set has produced multiple scientific advances and allowed the development of new software tools. Read more
Robert Holder 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Robert Holder Titanite petrochronology of ultrahigh-temperature (UHT) calc-silicates from southern Madagascar: laser-ablation split-stream ICP-MS spot analyses and depth profiles; EPMA trace-element maps Read more
Yuan-Kai Liu 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Yuan-Kai Liu Contemporaneous Ring Fault Activity and Surface Deformation at Subsiding Calderas studied using Analogue Experiments Read more
Francesca Forni 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Francesca Forni The origin of a zoned ignimbrite: insights into the Campanian Ignimbrite magma chamber (Campi Flegrei, Italy) Read more
Freya George 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Freya George Characterisation of a garnet population from the Sikkim Himalaya: implications for the mechanisms and rates of porphyroblast crystallisation Read more
Jackie E. Kendrick 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Jackie E. Kendrick for an outstanding early career contribution to seismogenic processes and frictional melting in shallow magmatic conduits. Read more
Stephan Kolzenburg 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Stephan Kolzenburg The non-isothermal rheology of low viscosity magmas. Read more
Tetsuo Irifune 2016 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal The 2016 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Tetsuo Irifune for outstanding contributions in experimental high-pressure mineral physics and petrology, as well as pioneering developments in high-pressure technology. Read more
Omar Bartoli 2015 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2015 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Omar Bartoli for his innovative investigations of crustal melting using complementary approaches including computational petrology, high-pressure experimental petrology and advanced geochemical characterisation of melt inclusions in migmatites and granulites. Read more
Venera Espanon 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Venera Espanon Magmatic constraints on a Holocene continental back-arc volcano: The Santa Maria volcano Read more
Chris J. Hawkesworth 2014 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal The 2014 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Chris J. Hawkesworth for his outstanding contributions to a vast spectrum of geochemical subjects, most notably his work on the history and evolution of the continental crust. Read more
Mark Stacey 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Mark Stacey Critical metal exploration at the lost gardar intrusion paatusoq south east Greenland Read more
Sylvia Berg 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Sylvia Berg Making Earth’s earliest continental crust – an analogue from voluminous Neogene silicic volcanism in NE-Iceland Read more
Catherine McCammon 2013 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal The 2013 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Catherine McCammon for her outstanding contributions to understanding the redox and spin state of iron in the Earth’s interior and the implications of this work for the evolution of our planet. Read more
Gabriel Coelho 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Gabriel Coelho Epidotisation and fluid flow in sheeted dyke complex: new field and experimental constraints Read more
Encarnación Ruiz-Agudo 2012 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists The 2012 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists is awarded to Encarnación Ruiz-Agudo for her ground-breaking work on the structure of mineral surfaces, on fluid-mineral interaction and on the influence of organic and inorganic additives on the growth of crystals in multicomponent aqueous solutions. Read more
William F. McDonough 2012 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal The 2012 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to William F. McDonough for his outstanding contribution to our understanding of the geochemical composition and evolution of the solid Earth. His ground-breaking research in defining the major and trace element composition of primitive mantle and of modern mantle reservoirs has become a cornerstone of geochemical investigation of the Earth’s interior and will form the basis for further investigations by generations of geochemists. Read more
Barbara Kunz 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Barbara Kunz A mid-crustal metamorphic field gradient in Val Strona di Omegna, Italy: constraints from metabasic rocks Read more
Fatima El Atrassi 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Fatima El Atrassi Melting textures and microdiamonds preserved in graphite pseudomorphs from the Beni Bousera peridotite massif, Morocco. Read more
István Kovács 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2011 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to István Kovács for his outstanding contribution to quantitative infrared spectroscopy of nominally anhydrous minerals and its application to the lithosphere-asthenosphere system. Read more
Michael Manga 2011 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal The 2011 Robert Wilhelm Bunsen Medal is awarded to Michael Manga for his outstanding contribution to volcanology and to the physics of transport and eruption of multiphase magma. His contribution elegantly links observations, lab experiments and theory, and has significantly advanced physical volcanology. Read more
Anaïs Ferot 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Anaïs Ferot High pressure experiments on water solubility in olivine and orthopyroxene: study on the effect of iron and aluminum Read more