The mission of the Henk Zwart Award is to further and promote research in structural geology and tectonics in any of its fields. Nominees can be any scientifically recognized person who has shown, through publication record and other actions, to have promoted structural geology. A nominated scientist can be at any career stage but should have made an outstanding contribution in advancing structural geology and tectonics, e.g. via the development of new, groundbreaking techniques or models; or communication of the discipline. Nominees may be of any nationality.

There should be one proposer and one seconder, both signing and dating the nomination. Nominations should comprise a citation of not more than 100 words, and a cover letter of no more than 1,500 words, clearly and concisely outlining the narratives and scientific merits of the proposed award nominee, plus a list of publications and a brief CV of the proposed candidate.

Nominations for the 4th Henk Zwart award should be sent to the TecTask Chair by the announced deadline (last deadline 30th April 2022). The next call will be announced c. 2 months before the deadline.

The choice of the Henk Zwart Award recipient will be made by six members of the TecTask Executive Committee (current and previous Chair and Vice-Chair and current Secretary General and Treasurer). This committee also reserves the right not to make an award.

It is our pleasure to announce that in 2022, the Award was presented to Professor Emerita Renée Heilbronner (University of Basel, Switzerland). You can read the citation here.

Figure caption: The fourth Henk Zwart Award was presented to Professor Emerita Renée Heilbronner at DRT meeting in Catania, July 2022, by Dr Taija Torvela (vice-chair of TecTask).

 

Previous recipients of the award are:

2013 Paul F. Williams, University of New Brunswick, Canada
2017 Dave Prior, University of Otago, New Zealand – citation here
2019 Cees Passchier, University of Mainz, Germany