Awards / Honours
2022
Athanasios Agalianos: Silver Medal of ETH Zürich, Doctoral thesis: “Strike-slip faulting and interaction with structures: a combined numerical and experimental study”, ETH Zürich
2021
Ioannis Anastasopoulos (with Evangelia Garini & George Gazetas): Tso Kung Hsieh Award, Géotechnique paper “Soil, basin and soil–building–soil interaction effects on motions of Mexico City during seven earthquakes”, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)
2019
Anil Yildiz: Culmann Prize, Doctoral thesis 2018, ETH Zürich
2018
Sarah M. Springman: Honorary Doctor, University of Sheffield
Sarah M. Springman: Honorary Doctor, University of Wollongong
2017
Alber Simone: Culmann Prize, Master's thesis 2017, ETH Zürich
Rebecca Schindler: Culmann Prize, Master's thesis 2017, ETH Zürich
2016
Sarah M. Springman: Honorary Doctor, Universität Bern
2015
Rebekka Habegger: Culmann Prize, Master's thesis 2015, ETH Zürich
Roman Sidler: Culmann Prize, Master's thesis 2015, ETH Zürich
2014
Sarah M. Springman: Golden Owl:
The Golden Owl honours lecturers who have provided exceptional teaching and motivates them to continue with their excellent teaching. Winners
Sarah M. Springman (with Rasmus T. Klinvort and Ole Hededal): Telford Premium Award:
Award of the Institution of Civil Engineers ICE for the paper "Scaling issues in centrifuge modelling of monopiles", Internat. Journal of Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (IJPMG), 2013. external pageDoi: 10.1680/ijpmg.12.00010call_made. Award for the best paper published in the IJPMG in 2013
Sarah M. Springman: The 2014 Seymour Whyte Distinguished Lecture for Women in Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia
Sarah M. Springman & Andrea Thielen (with Peter Kienzler and Sven Friedel): 2013 British Geotechnical Association Medal (BGA Medal) for the paper "A long-term field study for the investigation of rainfall-induced landslides", Géotechnique, 2013. external pageDoi: 10.1680/geot.11.P.142call_made. This annual award is made to members of the Society for “meritorious contributions to geotechnical science or practice”.
2013
Sarah M. Springman: Honorary Doctor of Science, The University of Bath, UK
Sarah M. Springman: Lifetime Achievement award, Sportswomen of the Year awards 2013, The Sunday Times & Sky Sports
Francesca Casini & Sarah M. Springman (with Victor Serri): One of the Editor's choice papers for 2013 by the Canadian Geotechnical Journal for the paper "Hydromechanical behaviour of a silty sand from a steep slope triggered by artificial rainfall: from unsaturated to saturated conditions". external pageDoi: 10.1139/cgj-2012-0095call_made
Linda J. Seward (et al.): Professor William R Dearman QJEGH Young Author of the Year 2013:
Award for the paper "Remoulding of the Mercia Mudstone Group around CFA pile shafts". external pageDoi: 10.1144/qjegh2011-053call_made
2012
Sarah M. Springman: Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire CBE, The British Monarchy
Emma Pooley: Doctorate of Civil Law (Honorary Doctor DCL), University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, UK
2011
Bernd Imre: ETH Medal, Award for an outstanding doctoral thesis, ETH-Diss. Nr. 18854 "Micromechanical analyses of sturzstroms (rock avalanches) on Earth and Mars"
Sarah M. Springman: 12th Suklje Geotechnical Lecturer 2011, Slovenian Geotechnical Society, Slovenia
Alexander Beck: Culmann Prize, Master's thesis 2011, ETH Zürich
Marc Schmid: Culmann Prize, Master's thesis 2011, ETH Zürich
Cornel Waltert: Culmann Prize, Master's thesis 2011, ETH Zürich
2010
Sarah M. Springman: Autumn 2010 Cross Canada Geotechnical Lecturer, Canadian Geotechnical Society
Emma Pooley: Gold medal, World Championship 2010, time trial, Geelong, Australia
2009
Sarah M. Springman: Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering FREng, The Royal Academy of Engineering
Bernd Imre: Best presentation award, "Physikalische Simulation von Bergstürzen in der Geotechnischen Zentrifuge an der ETH Zürich", Scientific Conf., Monte Verità, Switzerland, Ascona,25.2.2009, From Shear Bands to Rapid Flow
Elena Kapogianni (visiting PhD student): GSI award academic year 2009-2010, GS reinforcement of soil slopes under seismic conditions (for work done at IGT), awarded by the Geosynthetic Institute, Folsom, PA, USA
2007
Sarah M. Springman, Pierre Mayor, Robert Banjac (et al.): Best Paper published in Geotextiles & Geomembranes in 2006, "Full-scale field tests on geosynthetic reinforced unpaved roads on soft subgrade", awarded by Geotextiles & Geomembranes, International Geosynthetics Society, Easley, SC, USA. external pagedoi:10.1016/j.geotexmem.2005.06.002call_made
Ravikiran Chikatamarla: PLANAT Prize (Forschungspreis) 2006 for the ETH Diss. Nr. 16315 "Optimisation of cushion materials for rockfall protection galleries", awarded by the National Platform for Natural Hazards, Federal Office for the Environment BAFU, Berne, Switzerland
Pierre Mayor et al.: Umsicht - Regards - Sguardi - Auszeichnung des SIA für zukunftsfähige Arbeiten 2006/2007, Award for sustainable works in 2006/2007, as a member of the project "Seeschüttung Urner See, Flüelen, Seedorf/UR"
Emma Pooley: Amy Gillett Award 2007 for the woman who best exhibits outstanding fairness and competitiveness in the 2007 Thüringen Rundfahrt, Amy Gillett Foundation, Australia
2005
Michael Iten: Culmann Prize, Diploma thesis, Winter semester 2004/5, ETH Zürich