Gilles Antoniazza listens to the mountain riverbeds
Prix Schläfli 2024 Geosciences: Flooding events in Alpine rivers can cause major damage. Gilles Antoniazza's doctoral thesis provides new approaches towards a better understanding of bed load transport. He has been awarded the Prix Schläfli Geosciences in recognition of this work.
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Ariadni Afroditi Georgatou – What igneous rock tells us about mineral resources
Prix Schläfli 2023: At the age of 32, Ariadni Afroditi Georgatou is already an internationally recognised pioneer in the area between volcanology and mineralogy. She has been awarded the Prix Schläfli in Geosciences for her dissertation on magmatic sulphide minerals at the University of Geneva.
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Luca Dal Zilio – A cautious prophet
Large earthquakes are once-in-a-century events with devastating consequences. Luca Dal Zilio has developed a model that describes the development of such events both temporally and geographically, and which could therefore become important for risk prevention.
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Fabian Mahrt – ice-cold climate research
His field of research is the smallest particles with a large effect: Prix Schlaefli award winner Fabian Mahrt has investigated the conditions under which carbon black (soot) forms ice particles. He first had to build the apparatus for the innovative experiments.
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Fabian Rey – Tracing history through pollen
Fabian Rey has examined hundreds of thousands of pollen grains in his work analysing the history of land use and vegetation more precisely than ever before. This got him the Prix Schläfli award in Geosciences.
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