Amir AghaKouchak 2026 Plinius Medal The 2026 Plinius Medal is awarded to Amir AghaKouchak for outstanding interdisciplinary contributions to understanding and mitigating Anthropogenic Drought, hydrologic extremes, and compound hazards. Read more
Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos 2026 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2026 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos for promoting innovative research on geohazards that led to a new tsunami intensity scale, improving the analysis of foreshock seismic sequences and for the development of tsunami warning systems. Read more
Nivedita Sairam 2026 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2026 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Nivedita Sairam in recognition of exceptional contributions to systemic modelling of compounding and cascading flood impacts. Read more
Annegret Henriette Thieken 2025 Plinius Medal The 2025 Plinius Medal is awarded to Annegret Henriette Thieken in recognition of outstanding contributions to the understanding and mitigation of flood risk, and the design of adaptation management strategies informed by the involvement of affected communities. Read more
Clarence Gagnon 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Clarence Gagnon The role of extratropical cyclones in flooding in Quebec, Canada, from 1991 to 2020 Read more
Julián Montejo 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Julián Montejo Optimal site hazard grid for probabilistic risk assessment: A two-step approach Read more
Mariana Madruga de Brito 2025 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2025 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Mariana Madruga de Brito for outstanding contributions to understanding of the socio-economic impacts and risk mitigation of extreme hydrological events, using natural language processing and social science computational methods. Read more
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano 2025 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2025 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano for creating a novel drought indicator, which has become the benchmark for quantifying droughts, and for pioneering studies in the integration of different drought typologies. Read more
Dominic Sett 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Dominic Sett How are households contributing to flood risk management? Empirical evidence from a highly flood-prone urban region in Central Vietnam Read more
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
