Hayley J. Fowler 2024 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2024 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Hayley J. Fowler for her remarkable scientific contributions in fundamental research on climate change impacts on rainfall extremes, and applications on flood risks for the improvement of climate resilience. Read more
Jacopo Selva 2024 Plinius Medal The 2024 Plinius Medal is awarded to Jacopo Selva for his transformative research in quantitative seismic, volcanic and tsunami hazard modelling, leading to relevant applied solutions used in civil protection and emergency management. Read more
Marleen C. de Ruiter 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Marleen C. de Ruiter for her outstanding scientific work on cascading hazards, multi-risk assessment and management. Read more
Alberto Viglione 2023 Plinius Medal The 2023 Plinius Medal is awarded to Alberto Viglione for seminal contributions to understanding and assessing hydrological extremes. Read more
Ambra Hyskaj 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Ambra Hyskaj Naturally Occurring Asbestos in the asbestos-free European Union approach. Is asbestos exposure prevention being understood correctly? Read more
Ankit Agarwal 2023 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2023 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Ankit Agarwal for his distinguished work in complexity science for better understanding, quantifying and predicting hydroclimatic extremes. Read more
Peng Cui 2023 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2023 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Peng Cui for his high-level career in research and applications on debris flows and other mountain hazards, and his leadership on disaster risk reduction in adherence with the Sendai Framework. Read more
Sarah Hồ 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Sarah Hồ A Comparison of Agriculture-related Characteristics of Flash and Traditional Drought Read more
Yuly Paola Rave Bonilla 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Yuly Paola Rave Bonilla Numerical modelling of the volcanic emissions dispersion from La Soufrière de Guadeloupe Read more
Anne Mangeney 2022 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2022 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Anne Mangeney for unique contributions to the understanding of geohazards by integrating novel modelling approaches with field and laboratory observations, and the transfer of knowledge towards risk assessment. Read more
Christian Grimm 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Christian Grimm Advancing the ETAS Model to Improve Forecasts of Earthquake Sequences and Doublets Read more
Ingrid Bjørge-Engeland 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Ingrid Bjørge-Engeland Observations by ASIM of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes accompanied by Elves Read more
Jakob Zscheischler 2022 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2022 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Jakob Zscheischler for fundamental work of an international standing, defining and developing models for the identification and risk assessment of compound and inter-related hazards, in a changing climate. Read more
Joan Villalonga 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Joan Villalonga Observational characterization of meteotsunami triggering in the Balearic Islands from an ultra-dense observational network Read more
Slobodan Nickovic 2022 Plinius Medal The 2022 Plinius Medal is awarded to Slobodan Nickovic for pioneering work on modelling sand and dust storms and for significant contributions to the development of a global dust advisory and warning system. Read more
Wazita Scott 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Wazita Scott Weather circulation patterns associated with extreme precipitation events over Italy Read more
Yuchen He 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Yuchen He A numerical and experimental study of Galilei-transformed nonlinear wave groups Read more
Bixen Telletxea 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award The 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award is awarded to Bixen Telletxea Identification and characterization of rockfalls using seismic signals, LiDAR, and imagery. Advances on real-time detection Read more
Dion Häfner 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award The 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award is awarded to Dion Häfner Real-World Rogue Wave Probabilities Read more
Fausto Guzzetti 2021 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2021 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Fausto Guzzetti for his fundamental contributions to the field of natural hazards and his remarkable efforts to link the scientific community and civil protection authorities to mitigate risk for exposed populations. Read more
Giuliano Di Baldassarre 2021 Plinius Medal The 2021 Plinius Medal is awarded to Giuliano Di Baldassarre for outstanding research on the interplay between hydrological hazards and society, and significant contributions to the development of policy for the mitigation of floods and droughts. Read more
Janneke van Ginkel 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award The 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award is awarded to Janneke van Ginkel An approach to construct a Netherlands-wide ground-motion amplification model Read more
Maria Pregnolato 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2021 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Maria Pregnolato for her outstanding research in the field of flood impacts, flood risk assessment, and infrastructure resilience. Read more
Matthew Hayward 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award The 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award is awarded to Matthew Hayward Numerical simulations of tsunami generation in caldera lakes by subaqueous explosive volcanism Read more
Yi Zhang 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award The 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award is awarded to Yi Zhang Projections of tropical heat stress constrained by atmospheric dynamics Read more
Claire J. Horwell 2020 Plinius Medal The 2020 Plinius Medal is awarded to Claire J. Horwell for her outstanding interdisciplinary research on the respiratory health implications of volcanic aerosols, including ash, minerals and liquid droplets. Read more
John J. Clague 2020 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2020 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to John J. Clague for his remarkable scientific contributions in fundamental and applied research on earthquakes, tsunamis, outburst floods and landslides, directed towards risk reduction for the benefit of societies. Read more
Vitor Silva 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Vitor Silva for his fundamental contributions to the research on earthquake risk assessment. Read more
Alexandra Urgilez Vinueza 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Alexandra Urgilez Vinueza The occurrence of Landslides in Guarumales, Ecuador Read more
Ina Teutsch 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Ina Teutsch Rogue Waves in the Southern North Sea Read more
Jadranka Šepić 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Jadranka Šepić for fundamental contributions to the research on meteorological tsunamis and high-frequency sea level oscillations. Read more
Kyoji Sassa 2019 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2019 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Kyoji Sassa for outstanding scientific contributions in fundamental research in landslide hazards and in landslide risk-reduction initiatives for the benefit of societies. Read more
Philip J. Ward 2019 Plinius Medal The 2019 Plinius Medal is awarded to Philip J. Ward for outstanding research on flood and drought risk assessments from global to local scales. Read more
Rahul Kumar 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Rahul Kumar Urban interactions with heatwaves in India Read more
Ricarda Gatter 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Ricarda Gatter The significance of weak layers for submarine slope failure Read more
Benno Wachler 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Benno Wachler Feedbacks of sea-level rise induced topographic changes of the Wadden Sea on tidal dynamics Read more
David Bonneau 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to David Bonneau The Use of Terrestrial Laser Scanning for the Characterization of Debris Accumulation Patterns in the White Canyon, British Columbia Read more
Emanuele Bevacqua 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Emanuele Bevacqua Changing risk of compound flooding over Europe under anthropogenic climate change Read more
Giuseppe De Natale 2018 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2018 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Giuseppe De Natale for his fundamental contributions to the assessment and management of seismic and volcanic hazards and risk. Read more
Hannah L. Cloke 2018 Plinius Medal The 2018 Plinius Medal is awarded to Hannah L. Cloke for her outstanding research on uncertainties in modelling flood hazards and understanding risks in operational ensemble flood forecasting as well as climate impact assessments of future flood risks. Read more
Marina Peña Gallardo 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Marina Peña Gallardo The impacts of drought in agricultural productivity. An analysis at different scales for the two major rain-fed crops in Spain. Read more
Thomas Wahl 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Thomas Wahl for his fundamental contributions to the research on assessment of coastal-flood risk. Read more
Veronika Röthlisberger 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Veronika Röthlisberger Quantifying exposure: the influence of value estimation schemes Read more
Anastasiia Domina 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Anastasiia Domina The effect of stratification and topography on high-frequency internal waves in a continental shelf sea Read more
Augusto Neri 2017 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2017 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Augusto Neri for his pioneering research in fluid dynamics that revolutionised our understanding of eruption processes, and for his generous insights and efforts worldwide to mitigate pyroclastic flow and ashfall/gas hazards. Read more
Bruno Merz 2017 Plinius Medal The 2017 Plinius Medal is awarded to Bruno Merz for groundbreaking contributions in the field of flood risk research and practice through introducing and implementing an integrated framework of combined vulnerability and hazard assessment. Read more
Florian Albrecht 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Florian Albrecht Validating the usability of an interactive Earth Observation based web service for landslide investigation Read more
James E. Daniell 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2017 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to James E. Daniell for his interdisciplinary contribution to multi-risk research, focusing on the consequences of natural hazards, with strong links with socio-economic research. Read more
Jamie W. McCaughey 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Jamie W. McCaughey Societal acceptance of unnecessary evacuation Read more
Animesh Kumar Gain 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Animesh Kumar Gain for his innovative contributions to the integrated assessment of flood risks and water scarcity, considering both physical and socioeconomic dimensions. Read more