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
Benjamin P. Horton 2016 Plinius Medal The 2016 Plinius Medal is awarded to Benjamin P. Horton for outstanding research on the mechanisms and nature of past sea-level changes, their association with earthquakes, tsunamis and storms, and how these processes will impact future coastal environments. Read more
Irasema Alcántara-Ayala 2016 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2016 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Irasema Alcántara-Ayala for her outstanding contribution to the basic knowledge of natural hazards, vulnerability and prevention of disasters in developing countries. Read more
Martin Wronna 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Martin Wronna On the use of Paleo DEMS for Simulation of historical Tsunami Events Read more
Miguel A. Cabrera 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Miguel A. Cabrera Monodisperse granular flows in viscous dispersions in a centrifugal acceleration field Read more
Sara Hernandez-Barrera 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Sara Hernandez-Barrera Response of wheat yield in Spain to large-scale patterns Read more
Alfredo M. F. A. Lagmay 2015 Plinius Medal The 2015 Plinius Medal is awarded to Alfredo M. F. A. Lagmay for his outstanding interdisciplinary natural-hazard research and natural-disaster engagement in the Philippines, particularly with respect to volcanic hazards, earthquakes, typhoons, landslides and floods. Read more
Chiara Arrighi 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Chiara Arrighi Estimation of flood risk for cultural heritage in an art city Read more
John C. Eichelberger 2015 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2015 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to John C. Eichelberger for his outstanding contribution to basic knowledge of natural hazards, in particular, of volcano eruptions and associated phenomena, as well as to reliable multidisciplinary risk assessment leading to disaster mitigation. Read more
Maria De la Fuente 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Maria De la Fuente Permeability changes induced by microfissure closure and opening in tectonized materials. Effect on slope pore pressure regime. Read more
Perrine Freydier 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Perrine Freydier Internal dynamics of a free-surface viscoplastic flow down an inclined plane: experimental results through PIV measurements Read more
Catarina R. Lemos 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Catarina R. Lemos Tsunami Impact from a 1755-like event in the Aveiro Region, Portugal Read more
Costas E. Synolakis 2014 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2014 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Costas E. Synolakis for his superb research contributions to tsunami mitigation, combining theory, laboratory experiments, field surveys and the development of widely used numerical codes to improve tsunami mitigation. Read more
Hermann M. Fritz 2014 Plinius Medal The 2014 Plinius Medal is awarded to Hermann M. Fritz for his outstanding laboratory- and field-research achievements in the generation and propagation of tsunamis. Read more
Martin Braun 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Martin Braun Connecting a large database of debris flow events in Austria with daily precipitation data Read more
Moussa Waongo 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Moussa Waongo Crop planting date optimization: An approach for climate change adaptation in West Africa Read more
Nicolas Eckert 2014 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2014 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Nicolas Eckert for innovative findings on the impact of climate change on avalanche risk. Read more
Tiago Abreu 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Tiago Abreu Influence of nonlinear waves on sandbar migrations using Monte Carlo simulations Read more
Emile Okal 2013 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2013 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Emile Okal for his seminal contributions to the understanding of the physics of tsunamis and for establishing new methods of tsunami mitigation. Read more
Justin Sheffield 2013 Plinius Medal The 2013 Plinius Medal is awarded to Justin Sheffield for his outstanding research achievements in hydrologic and related aspects of droughts. Read more
Jean-François Breilh 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Jean-François Breilh Simulating coastal flooding during Xynthia : an improved static inundation method Read more
Lieven Clarisse 2012 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists The 2012 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists is awarded to Lieven Clarisse for his outstanding contribution to exploiting remote atmospheric sensing techniques to improve our understanding of emission and transport processes of ash and gases in relation to various natural hazardous processes. Read more
Péter Völgyesi 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Péter Völgyesi Long-term airborne contamination studied by attic dust in an industrial area: Ajka, Hungary Read more
Pietro Milillo 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Pietro Milillo Variation of altitude observed on the occasion of the Tohoku Earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011 Read more
Timothy Sullivan 2012 Plinius Medal The 2012 Plinius Medal is awarded to Timothy Sullivan for his outstanding research achievements in seismic engineering design, seismic assessment, seismic retrofit and mitigation of seismic risk. Read more
Asta Gregorič 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Asta Gregorič Radon concentration and ventilation in two different passages in the Postojna Cave Read more
Atitkagna Dok 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Atitkagna Dok Study of the Tertiary Creep Mechanism by Ring Shear Apparatus for Predicting Initiation Time of Rainfall-Induced Landslides Read more
Raphaël Paris 2011 Plinius Medal The 2011 Plinius Medal is awarded to Raphaël Paris in recognition and appreciation of his outstanding contributions to multidisciplinary research in the field of natural hazards and risk mitigation, with special focus on volcanic hazard, on volcanic slope instabilities, of tsunamigenic eruptive and gravitational processes, and on studies of tsunami onshore deposits. Read more
Renata Gazdova 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Renata Gazdova Groundwater level variations in the seismo-active region of Western Bohemia in the years 2005–2010 Read more
David Keefer 2010 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2010 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to David Keefer for his major scientific contribution to our understanding of the complex system of earthquake-induced landslides and for his innovative methods to assess landslide hazards for the benefit of society. Read more
Ira Didenkulova 2010 Plinius Medal The 2010 Plinius Medal is awarded to Ira Didenkulova in recognition of her outstanding contributions to solve complex problems of oceanography and coastal engineering by applying nonlinear wave theory to marine natural hazards, including tsunamis, freak waves and storm waves. Read more
James E. Daniell 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to James E. Daniell Open source Procedure for Assessment of Loss Read more
Maria Tous 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Maria Tous MEDICANES: database and environmental parameters Read more
Sezin Oeztan 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Sezin Oeztan Metal load of the crops depending on land use, land management and soil characteristics Read more
Adriano Pimentel 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Adriano Pimentel Numerical hazard zonation for pyroclastic density current scenarios at Faial and Terceira islands (Azores) Read more
Ashley Coles 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Ashley Coles Driving into danger: Perception and communication of flash flood risk from a cultural perspective Read more
Helen Crowley 2009 Plinius Medal The 2009 Plinius Medal is awarded to Helen Crowley in recognition of her outstanding contributions in the fields of earthquake risk assessment and seismic risk mitigation, and in the neighbouring fields of structural engineering and engineering seismology. Read more
Jochen Zschau 2009 Sergey Soloviev Medal The 2009 Sergey Soloviev Medal is awarded to Jochen Zschau for his commitment and enthusiasm to bridge the gap between fundamental research related to the physics of natural hazards and the implementation of risk reduction technologies for the benefit of society. Read more
Mubashir Aziz 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Mubashir Aziz Effects of Negative Ageing on Deformation and Strength Response of Geomaterials Read more
Ufuk Hancilar 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2009 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Ufuk Hancilar Urban Earthquake Shaking and Loss Estimation by ELER Read more
Claudia Cecioni 2008 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2008 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Claudia Cecioni Full frequency dispersive numerical modelling of tsunamis. Large scale application to the South Tyrrhenian sea Read more
Dominika Pradzynska 2008 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2008 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Dominika Pradzynska Spatial and temporal variability of soil moisture patterns related to preferential flow measured using distributed temperature sensing in large scale infiltration experiment Read more
Fabrizio Romano 2008 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2008 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Fabrizio Romano Rupture process of the 25 September 2003 Tokachi-Oki (Hokkaido, Japan) Mw 8.3 earthquake from joint inversion of tsunami waveform and GPS data Read more
