Awards
2024
The DTTG (German-Austrian-Swiss Clay Group) held its bi-annual general assembly on September 17th, 2024 at the 11th Mid-European Clay Conference (MECC) in Pilsen organized by the Czech Clay Group.
Wolfgang Jan Zucha from ETH Zurich gave the best oral student presentation with his contribution on magnesium-based cementitious binders.
2023
Environmental Geotechnics Prize 2023 - awarded to Dr. Michael Plötze for his paper entitled "Sustainable environmental geotechnics practices for a green economy", published in Environmental Geotechnics.
2019
Thomas Blattmann: Silver Medal for Doctoral Thesis, ETH Zürich.
Congratulations to Thomas, whose work on "Topics on radiocarbon geochemistry and organic matter-mineral interactions" has been recognized as outstanding Doctoral Thesis.
2018
Michael Plötze: 3rd place in the international Reynolds Cup contest of the Clay Minerals Society (CMS)
2016
Golden Hammer Award of the Chamber of the Geological Engineers of Turkey 2016
Ö. Ündül, F. Amann, N. Aysal, M. Plötze
external page Micro-textural effects on crack initiation and crack propagation of andesitic rocks
Engineering Geology 193, July 2015, Pages 267–275
2013
Geoderma Announces Best Paper Award 2013
V. L. Mulder, M. Plötze, S. de Bruin, M. E. Schaepman, C. Mavris,
R. F. Kokaly, M. Egli
external page Quantifying mineral abundances of complex mixtures by coupling spectral deconvolution of SWIR spectra (2.1–2.4 μm) and regression tree analysis
Geoderma 207–208, October 2013, Pages 279-290
2012
Michael Plötze: Winner of the international Reynolds Cup of the Clay Minerals Society (CMS)
2010
Pascal Minder: Award of the DTTG (Deutsche Ton- und Tonmineralgruppe) for the best student conference talk at the 5th MECC, Budapest.
2009
Pascal Minder: ETH Medal for Master Thesis, ETH Zurich.
Pascal Minder: Willi-Studer-Preis, ETH Zurich.
2007
Jacqueline Tront: Outstanding Poster and presentation award, Latsis Symposium 2007: Research Frontiers in Environment and Stustainability, ETH Zurich.
2004
Michael Plötze: 3rd place in the international Reynolds-Cup contest in Quantitative Mineral Analysis of Clay-bearing Rocks
