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Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Simone Bello
University G. d’Annunzio, Italy; CRUST–Interuniversity Center for 3D Seismotectonics with Territorial Applications, Italy
Yuchen Wang
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan
Winner
Martina Zucchi
"University of Bari, Italy
Theodore M. Present
Caltech, Pasadena, United States
Winner
Dave Waters
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, UK
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Prof. David Waters
Chairman
University of Oxford
Ms. Mayes Nie
MDPI
Ms. Betsy Feng
MDPI
Winner
Luke A. McGuire
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Winner
Bill Boyd
School of Environment, Science & Engineering, Southern Cross University, Australia
Winner
Dmitry A. Ruban
K.G. Razumovsky Moscow State University of Technologies and Management (the First Cossack University), Moscow, 109004, Russia
Winner
Maurizio Barbieri
Department of Earth Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro, 5 - 00185 Roma, Italy
Lauren N. Schaefer
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand
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