Simona Meiler pushes boundaries in climate risk science
Prix Schläfli 2025 for Geosciences: Simona’s snowboarding career ended at the 2018 Winter Olympics, but since then, she has shown the same drive in her commitment to science. Simona Meiler has been awarded the Swiss Academy of Sciences’ Prix Schläfli in Geosciences for her research into tropical cyclones.
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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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