Awards

Reinhardt Thiessen Medal

This is the highest award offered by ICCP.
It recognises significant achievements and outstanding
contributions in the fields of coal and organic petrology.

Aspects to consider include:

Significant contribution to the advancement of any branch of organic petrology on either fundamental or applied studies (or both) and consideration should be given to publications in any language.
Contribution to the utilization of petrographic studies relating to industrial activities.
Contribution to training, education and dissemination of organic petrology science, including establishment of organic petrology laboratories in countries with less tradition of organic petrology.
Contribution to positioning organic petrology within other branches of science.

Members submitting a nomination should provide:

A detailed CV including bibliography
A supporting letter of sufficient detail to provide the basis for a laudation
Submission of candidate’s most important publications (preferably in pdf format) is required. Translations of publications in some languages may be requested

Please send your nominations to the Chair of the Thiessen Award Committee. The deadline is and will be published in the Newsletter every year.

Dr. Maria Mastalerz

Indiana University – Bloomington
Senior Scientist, Indiana Geological and Water Survey
Adjunct Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Tel: 812-855-9416

E-mail: mmastale@indiana.edu

Nominations should be kept strictly confidential. Collaborative schemes in which additional support for a candidate is solicited or to which a candidate is party could result in a nomination being nullified.

Nominators of unsuccessful candidates would not be notified of their candidate’s failure to be selected. Letters of nomination will be kept on file for consideration in subsequent years. It will not be necessary for sponsors to repeat their applications unless they wish to update their candidate’s CV.

The award consists of a bronze medal and a certificate. The award committee consists of the five most recent medallists who are available. Awards are made from time to time but applications are called for every 2 years.

Thiessen Medallists

2024 Mr. Carl H. Hilgers
2020 Dr. Maria Mastalerz
2018 Prof. Dr. Reinhard F. Sachsenhofer
2017 Prof. Dr. Kuili Jin
2015 Dr Walter Pickel
2014 Prof. Zuleika Carreta Correa da Silva
2007 Dr John C. Crelling
2005 Dr Fariborz Goodarzi
2003 Dr James C. Hower
2002 Dr R. Marc Bustin
2001 Prof. Dr Manuel João Lemos de Sousa
2000 Mr Ralph J. Gray
1999 Dr Paul Robert
1998 Dr Javier G. Prado
1997 Prof. Geoffrey H. Taylor
1996 Dr Alan C. Cook
1995 Prof Dr Monika Wolf
1994 Dr Alan Davis
1993 Dr Helmut Jacob
1992 Dr Alex R. Cameron
1991 Prof Dr Claus F. K. Diessel
1990 Dr A. Harold V. Smith
1987 Prof Dr Duncan G. Murchison
1984 Prof William Spackman
1979 Dr Peter A. Hacquebard
1975 Dr Boris Alpern & Dr Raymond Noël
1971 Prof Marie-Therese Mackowsky & Dr Marlies Teichmüller
1968 Dr E. Hoffmann
1967 Prof. Innokentii I. Ammosov
1964 Dr Robert Potonie & Dr Erich Stach
1963 Dr Gilbert H. Cady
1956 Dr Clarence A. Seyler

Organic Petrology Award

The Organic Petrology Award was established in 2003 during the 55^th ICCP Meeting in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The Award recognises significant contributions by coal and organic petrologists at an intermediate stage of their career. The Organic Petrology Award is limited to applicants under 50 years of age. The award can be conferred every two years. It consists of a bronze medal and the Organic Petrology Award certificate.

Scientific contributions to consider include: scientific and/or practical contribution to various aspects of coal and organic petrology expressed, for example, in quality of the publication, their impact and significance, international recognition, scientific contribution.

Members submitting nominations should provide a letter of nomination, accompanied by any documents supporting the nomination, e.g. available or access to CV, web-based profile, list of publications etc.

The Organic Petrology Award Committee consists of the last five Awardees available. The nominations should be sent to the Chair of the Subcommittee Prof. Dr. João Graciano Mendonça Filho (graciano@geologia.ufrj.br).

Laboratório de Palinofácies & Fácies Orgânica
Instituto de Geociências – Departamento de Geologia
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos, Bloco D
Ilha do Fundão, Prédio CCMN
CEP: 21941-916 – Rio de Janeiro, RJ
BRAZIL

The deadline for submission of nominations will be published in the ICCP Newsletter every year. For the current round the deadline is April 30, 2025.

Nominations should be kept strictly confidential. Nominators of unsuccessful candidates would not be notified about the result. Letters of nomination will be kept on file for consideration in subsequent years. It will not be necessary for sponsors to resubmit their applications unless they wish to update their candidate’s CV.

The Organic Petrology Award Committee shall send the recommendation to the ICCP Council for approval along with the check list and the laudation.

Organic Petrology Awardees

2023 Dr. Stavros Kalaitzidis
2021 Dr. Jolanta Kus
2019 Dr. Paul Hackley
2014 Dr. Magdalena Misz-Kennan
2012 Prof. Dr. Joao Graciano Mendonça Filho
2008 Dr. Ángeles G. Borrego
2006 Dr. Isabel Suárez-Ruiz
2004 Dr. Maria Mastalerz