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
Daniel Pastor-Galán 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2019 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Daniel Pastor-Galán for his research on the origin of oroclines and the tectonic evolution of Palaeotethys and Panthalassa ocean interface during the Pangea amalgamation. Read more
Hans Jørgen Kjøll 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2019 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Hans Jørgen Kjøll Deep section of a Neoproterozoic fossil magma rich rifted margin exposed Read more
Serge Lallemand 2019 Stephan Mueller Medal The 2019 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to Serge Lallemand for fundamental analyses of the tectonics of convergent plate margins through careful combinations of natural observations with experiments. Read more
Fabio Corbi 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award The 2018 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Fabio Corbi in recognition of his ground-breaking, multidisciplinary research, dealing both with subduction-related thrust-fault earthquakes and volcano-tectonic processes. Read more
John P. Platt 2018 Stephan Mueller Medal The 2018 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to John P. Platt for his pioneering research in structural geology, which has fundamentally increased our understanding of deformation processes at plate margins through careful linking of field studies with mechanical and analytical analyses. Read more
Loes van Dam 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Loes van Dam Mapping mantle complexity in 4-D geodynamical models of circulation beneath migrating mid-ocean ridges Read more
Luca Dal Zilio 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2018 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Luca Dal Zilio Bimodal seismicity in the Himalaya controlled by fault friction and geometry Read more
Cees W. Passchier 2017 Stephan Mueller Medal The 2017 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to Cees W. Passchier in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the understanding of deformation in rocks at all scales through innovative tools such as kinematic indicators, microstructural criteria, and vorticity analysis. Read more
João C. Duarte 2017 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists The 2017 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to João C. Duarte for his pioneering research on subduction initiation and wrench tectonics through innovative combinations of tectonic, marine geology and analogue modelling techniques. Read more
Luca C. Malatesta 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Luca C. Malatesta A model to quantify sediment mixing across alluvial piedmonts with cycles of aggradation and incision Read more
Stefano Aretusini 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2017 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Stefano Aretusini Seismic slip on clay nano-foliation Read more
Åke Fagereng 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2016 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Åke Fagereng for fundamental contributions to the understanding of the processes and physical conditions prevailing around Earth’s active plate boundaries. Read more
Renée Heilbronner 2016 Stephan Mueller Medal The 2016 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to Renée Heilbronner for outstanding research on the analysis of rock microstructures and textures and the quantification of rock deformation. Read more
Robert Herrendörfer 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award The 2016 Outstanding Student Poster and PICO (OSPP) Award is awarded to Robert Herrendörfer Spontaneous aseismic and seismic slip on evolving faults in a continuum-mechanics framework Read more
Carlo Laj 2015 Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership The 2015 Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership is awarded to Carlo Laj for seminal contributions in tectonics, marine stratigraphy (palaeoceanography) and geomagnetism (palaeomagnetism). Read more
Evgueni B. Burov 2015 Stephan Mueller Medal The 2015 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to Evgueni B. Burov in recognition of his fundamental contributions to our understanding of the long-term rheological properties of the lithosphere and their role in the processes of continental rifting, sedimentary basin formation and mountain building. Read more
Hans Jørgen Kjøll 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2015 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Hans Jørgen Kjøll Brittle-viscous deformation of vein quartz under fluid-rich low greenschist facies conditions Read more
Adina E. Püsök 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2014 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Adina E. Püsök The development of topographic plateaus in an India-Asia-like collision zone using 3D numerical simulations Read more
Claudio Faccenna 2014 Stephan Mueller Medal The 2014 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to Claudio Faccenna in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the understanding of subduction dynamics, mantle circulation and related back-arc extension in combining elegant laboratory experiments with geological and geophysical constraints. Read more
Stacia M. Gordon 2014 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2014 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Stacia M. Gordon for important contributions on the integration of microstructural data with geochronology, metamorphic petrology and geochemistry. Read more
Ken McDermott 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Ken McDermott The Seismic Signature of “Hidden” Faults at Magma-Poor Rifted Margins Read more
Leigh Royden 2013 Stephan Mueller Medal The 2013 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to Leigh Royden for her seminal contributions to the understanding of the development of sedimentary basins, the thermal evolution of mountain belts, and the dynamics of flow in the lower crust and its relevance to the growth and structure of mountain ranges and high plateaux. Read more
Steven A. F. Smith 2013 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2013 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to Steven A. F. Smith for fundamental studies on the structure and evolution of fault and shear zones in the Earth’s continental crust, and deformation mechanisms that occur in fault rock materials. Read more
Thomas Seers 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2013 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Thomas Seers Comparison of Digital Outcrop and Conventional Approaches to the Characterization of Naturally Fractured Reservoir Analogues Read more
André R. Niemeijer 2012 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award The 2012 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award is awarded to André R. Niemeijer for his exceptional work on the effects of fluid-rock interactions and fabric development on rock and fault mechanical properties. Read more
Camille Clerc 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2012 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Camille Clerc From crustal thinning to mantle exhumation: what the Pyrenean breccia formations tell us Read more
Jacques Malavieille 2012 Stephan Mueller Medal The 2012 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to Jacques Malavieille in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the integration of field-based studies with analog modeling to study lithospheric deformation. Read more
Laurent Jolivet 2011 Stephan Mueller Medal The 2011 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to Laurent Jolivet for his contribution to a deeper understanding of the tectonic evolution of the lithosphere at convergent plate boundaries. Using rock mechanics and new concepts on coupling between metamorphic reactions and deformation he has generated new insights on how the crust deforms at depth and returns to the surface. Read more
Marcel Thielmann 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award The 2011 Outstanding Student Poster (OSP) Award is awarded to Marcel Thielmann Shear heating and subduction initiation Read more
Kei Ogata 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award The 2010 Young Scientist Outstanding Poster Paper (YSOPP) Award is awarded to Kei Ogata Mass transport-related stratal disruption and sedimentary products Read more
Seth Stein 2010 Stephan Mueller Medal The 2010 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to Seth Stein in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the study of the kinematics and dynamics of plate boundaries and plate interiors based on innovative applications of seismology and space-geodesy, and his role in establishing the first Plate Boundary Observatory. Read more
Stefan M. Schmid 2009 Stephan Mueller Medal The 2009 Stephan Mueller Medal is awarded to Stefan M. Schmid for his outstanding contributions to the study of the structure and rheology of deformed rocks and the processes of mountain building, especially in Alpine-type mountain belts. Read more
