Awards
Award 2018
Förderpreis 2018 der Fachgruppe Bauchemie, Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker - Ellina Bernard
PhD thesis: Magnesium silicate hydrate (M-S-H) characterization: temperature, calcium, aluminum and alkali
1st poster prize - Daniele Colonna
International Workshop on Calcium sulfoaluminate cements Murten, Switzerland June 4 – 6, 2018
“Study of the volume change properties of different OPC/CSA mortar systems”
Best Poster Award - Zhenguo Shi
Nuwcem conference,24-26.10. 2018, Avignon
"Properties of alkali-silica reaction products"
Davide Sirtoli - PhD Student Award Edition 2018
the best three PhD theses in Italy about concrete structures and materials defended in 2016, 2017 and 2018 - October 19, 2018 at the SAIE of Bologna
Award 2017
Sadegh Ghourchian
3rd poster prize - 6th Biot Poromechanics Conference, July 9-13, 2017, Paris, France
Student Presentation Award 2016

The 4th International Workshop on Mechanisms and Modelling of Waste/Cement Interactions, May 22-25, 2016. Murten, Switzerland
Best Student Presentation: Ellina Bernard: Effect of magnesium on the stability of C-S-H
Student Poster Award 2016

Student Poster, 3rd place: Latina Nedyalkova: Uptake of S, Se and I in AFm-phases
1st Place Poster Award 2012
- Fei Yang: Empa PhD Students’ Symposium 2014 - Dark-field X- ray imaging of unsaturated water transport in porous materials
- Michele Griffa: Soft Matter Conference, 12. -16. August 2012, Ascona
3rd Place Poster Award 2012
- Axel Schöler: GDCh-Tagung 11 -12.10.2012, Dübendorf
- Pavel Trtik: GDCh-Tagung 11 -12.10.2012, Dübendorf
Empa Innovation Award 2009
Presented for the fourth time. The fourth Empa Innovation prize, with its 5000 Swiss Franks endowment, has been awarded this year to Josef Kaufmann, Joern Luebben und Walter Trindler. 16.12.2009
Read here: A Power-Packet to Improve the Properties of Concrete
Awards of Pietro Lura:
- Robert L’Hermite Medal, RILEM, 2009
- Wason Medal for Materials Research, American Concrete Institute, 2009