Heidrun Kopp 2025 Marie Tharp Medal The 2025 Marie Tharp Medal is awarded to Heidrun Kopp for innovative research and groundbreaking discoveries in convergent margin systems, large earthquake processes, active fault slip, magmatic arc systems and geohazards. Read more
Renelle Dubosq 2025 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2025 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Renelle Dubosq for pioneering nanogeology research, advancing our understanding of plastic deformation in minerals, using innovative 2D and 3D analytical techniques in tectonics and structural geology. Read more
Julia Schmitz 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Julia Schmitz Fabric analyses of fine-grained glacier salt (Kuh-e-Namak, Dashti, southern Iran) Read more
Patrick Bianchi 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Patrick Bianchi Exploring fault preparation and earthquake nucleation from the laboratory Read more
Yann Klinger 2024 Stephan Mueller Medal The 2024 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to Yann Klinger for his exceptional interdisciplinary contribution to the fields of seismology and palaeo-seismology, in particular, for his groundbreaking development of space seismology. Read more
Afonso Gomes 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Afonso Gomes 2D numerical modelling of Tethyan-type ophiolite emplacement: The role of overriding plate age, serpentinization, and OCT width. Read more
Caroline Haslebacher 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Caroline Haslebacher Mapping linear surface features on Europa using a deep learning framework Read more
Jessica McBeck 2023 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2023 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Jessica McBeck for developing a new and unique understanding of strain localization mechanisms that control failure across scales, with the application of novel investigation techniques and modelling tools. Read more
Richard G. Gordon 2023 Stephan Mueller Medal The 2023 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to Richard G. Gordon in recognition for his outstanding and innovative contribution to global tectonics, in particular, for his leadership of the NUVEL (Northwest University Velocity) and MORVEL (Mid-Ocean Ridge Velocity) global plate motion projects. Read more
Alice Turner 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Alice Turner Searching for partial ruptures of repeating earthquakes Read more
Francesca Funiciello 2022 Marie Tharp Medal The 2022 Marie Tharp Medal is awarded to Francesca Funiciello in recognition of remarkable achievements in convergent margin geodynamics and for pioneering use of analogue modelling to investigate tectonic processes. Read more
Luigi Massaro 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Luigi Massaro New granular rock-analogue materials for simulation of multi-scale fault and fracture processes Read more
Mojtaba Rajabi 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Mojtaba Rajabi for outstanding research on global tectonic stress, that has resulted in a major revision of our understanding of present-day crustal stress patterns across different scales. Read more
Timothy Schmid 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award The 2022 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Timothy Schmid Fault growth and rift propagation during rotational continental rifting: Insights from an analogue modelling study Read more
Carolyn J. Boulton 2021 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2021 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Carolyn J. Boulton for outstanding research in the understanding of chemical-mechanical interactions during fault slip and the comparison of microstructures developed in experimental and natural samples. Read more
Pauline Gayrin 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award The 2021 Virtual Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (vOSPP) Award is awarded to Pauline Gayrin Semi-automated fault extraction and structural analysis from DEM data of the Magadi and Natron basins, East African Rift System Read more
R. Dietmar Müller 2021 Stephan Mueller Medal The 2021 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to R. Dietmar Müller for outstanding research in global plate tectonics, utilising open-source software and databases to advance understanding of changes in regional tectonics, sea level, topography, and atmospheric CO2. Read more
Christoph von Hagke 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2020 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Christoph von Hagke for his wide-ranging contributions to the kinematics and dynamics of plate boundaries, their interactions with foreland basins, and with magma transport. Read more
Mathilde Cannat 2020 Stephan Mueller Medal The 2020 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to Mathilde Cannat for her invaluable contributions to the understanding of the tectonic and magmatic evolution of mid-ocean ridges and the formation of oceanic crust. Read more
Alex Hughes 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Alex Hughes A new quantitative approach in modelling regional tectonic processes and syn-depositional systems in coupled analogue-numerical models Read more
