The Student Best Speaker & Poster Awards was inaugurated in 2007 at the Euroclay conference in Aveiro, Portugal. It is sponsored by AIPEA and it is designated to encourage young clay scientists, who will receive a cash awards during the International Clay conferences and Euroclay conferences.
Guidelines
1. Only oral and poster presentations with a student as the first author (and as the presenting author) will be considered.
2. All students presenting at the International Clay Conference and Euroclay are eligible.
3. A first and second prize will be given for each category (oral and poster), with a cash award for both first and second prizes. Amount will be establieshed by AIPEA President and Treasurer
4. All student oral and poster presentations will be evaluated by members of Council and their designates attending the Euroclay or International Clay Conferences.
Guidelines 2025
AWARDED STUDENTS
Euroclay 2007 – Best Oral Presentations
Mariana da Silva Rebelo (University of Aveiro, Portugal): Mineralogical and physic-chemical properties of some Portuguese Mesocenozoic clays used as healing clays. Vanja Biševac (University of Zagreb, Croatia): New data on metamorphic event in the eastern part of Mt. Papuk, Slavonia, Croatia.
Euroclay 2007 – Best Poster Presentations
Mathieu Gautier (University of Orleans, France): Interaction between ammonium smectite and some simple organic molecules: pollution prediction in waste landfill. Ewa Káfunková (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic): Photofunctional materials base on intercalated layered double hydroxides.
14th International Clay Conference (2009) – Best Oral Presentations
Holger Seher (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany): Bentonite colloid stability in granite groundwaters: experiments and modelling. Rosa Marques (Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear/GeoBioTec, Sacavém, Portugal): A contribution for the geochemical atlas of Santiago Island, Cape Verde – total contents of REE and other trace elements in the topsoil layer. Bethany L. Ehlmann (Brown University, U.S.A.): Evidence for low-grade metamorphism/diagenesis on Mars from phyllosilicate mineral assemblages.
14th International Clay Conference (2009) – Best Poster Presentations
Lenka Herzogová (Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czech Republic): Removal of As and Se oxyanions using modified clays: Al3+, Al3+/Fe3+, Mn2+ modification. Adebukola Adegoroye (University of Alberta, Canada): A comprehensive analysis of organic matter removal from clay – sized minerals extracted from oil sands using low temperature ashing and hydrogen peroxide.
Euroclay 2011 – Best Oral Presentations
Yohei Ishida (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan): Visible light-harvesting ability of cationic dyes assembly on an anionic clay surface: the effect of adsorption conditions. Laure Delavernhe (Institut des Materiaux Jean Rouxel, France): Relationship between macroscopic water affinity of kaolinites and their surface properties.
Euroclay 2011 – Best Poster Presentations
Natalia Matskova (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia): Characteristic of palygorskite clays from Dahkovskoe industrial deposit (Moscow region, Russia).Mazen Ziadeh (University of Bayreuth, Germany): A facile approach for producing high aspect ratio fluorhectorite nanoplatelets by utilizing a stirred media mill.
15th International Clay Conference (2013) – Best Oral Presentations
Robert Koch (University of Trento, Italy): A unified model to refine nanocrystalline, layered and faulted material structure and microstructure from powder diffraction data. Eliana Satiko Mano (Runner-up) (Polytechnic School of Sao Paulo University, Brazil): Detailed studies of Fe-Ni smectites from lateritic Ni-ore from Niquelandia – GO – Brazil. Sirle Liivamagi (Runner-up) (University of Tartu, Estonia): Neoproterozoic lateritic paleosol from Baltic Basin: weathering sequence and paleoclimatic interpretation.
15th International Clay Conference (2013) – Best Poster Presentations
Syafina Binti Mohol Ghazi (Hokkaido University, Japan): Uptake of radioactive cesium emitted from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant by diatomaceous earth – with special reference to chemical form of cesium. Gabriella Fazio (Runner-up) (University of Brasilia, Brazil): Phase quantification of clay minerals and carbonates from Sete Lagoas Formation by the Rietveld’s method. Aleksandra Deregowska (Runner-up) (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria):The contribution of clay minerals in the landslides occurrence within Austrian and Polish Flysch Formation.
Euroclay 2015 – Best Oral Presentations (jointly with ECGA and CMS)
Bhabananda Biswas (University of South Australia, Australia): Competitive adsorption of mixed contaminants on metal-immobilising organoclay (MIOC):Implication in the biodegradation of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Mathias H. Köster (Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany): Boron content and boron isotope composition of Na, Ca and Mg bentonites. Sayako Inoue (University of Tokyo, Japan): A combined study by HRTEM and HAADF-STEM for Fe-rich berthierine and chlorite interstratified minerals.
Euroclay 2015 – Best Poster Presentations (jointly with ECGA and CMS)
Cristina Fernández-Barranco (University of Jaen, Spain): Study of spatial distribution of sepiolite in polyamide 66/sepiolite nanocomposites. Katherine Rothwell (Newcastle University, United Kingdom): Assessing the redox reactivity of Fe(II)-reduced clay minerals. Darja Komar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia): Physical, chemical and thermal characteristics of Makirina bay peloids (N.Dalmatia, Republic of Croatia).
16th International Clay Conference (2017) – Best Oral Presentations
Yasine Sakhawoth (Sorbonne University, France): Flocculation of anisotropic particles induced by model polyelectrolytes. Ariane Suzzoni (Runner-up) (Pierre and Marie Curie University, France): Evolution of clay minerals structure during their interactions with organic molecules. Malgorzata Lempart (Runner-up) (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland): Dehydroxylation vs. dehydrogenation in thermal decomposition of Fe-chlorite
16th International Clay Conference (2017) – Best Poster Presentations
Héloïse Verron (Runner-up) (University of Lorraine, France): Oxydation of a Callovo-Oxfordian claystone (Bure, France) under oxidative controlled atmosphere. Satomi Enju (Runner-up) (Kyushu University, Japan): TEM observation of ortho-type polygonal serpentine and orthochrysotile. Jingyao Xu (Runner-up) (University of Barcelona, Spain): Mica-vermiculite intergrowth expansion through natural processes in pyroclastic carbonatites from Catanda (Angola).
Euroclay 2019 – Best Oral Presentations (jointly with ECGA and CMS)
Mariana Pires Figueiredo (Brazil): Iron-Based layered Double Hydroxides as Drug Carriers: Advantages and Challenges.
Pierre Picot (Runner-up) (France): Methyl-Imogolite: A New Hybrid Nanotube for Water Remediation.
Euroclay 2019 – Best Poster Presentations (jointly with ECGA and CMS)
Paulina Maziarz (Poland): Effectiveness of As(V) Removal from Wastewaters by Layered Double Hydroxides Impregnated with Fe Oxide.
Milan Pšenička (Runner-up) (Czech Republic): Sulindac and Mefenamic Acid Intercalated into LDHs Described by a Combination of DFT and Classical MD Simulations.
17th International Clay Conference (2022) – Best Oral Presentations
Bidemi Fashina (Texas A&M Univ., USA): Absorption of pyocyanin by montmorillonite, sepiolite and palygorskite.
Aasim Shaffi (runner-up) (Univ. College London, UK): Two-dimensional water in halloysite nanotubes: structure and dynamics from neutron experiments.
17th International Clay Conference (2022) – Best Poster Presentations
Karolina Rybka (AGH Univ. Science and Technology, Poland): The characteristics of V(V and P(V adsorption by LDH derived from magnesite: kinetics, pH influence and competition with common anions.
Eleanor Olegario (runner-up) (Univ. of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines): Recrystallized Philippine natural zeolites (PNZ) adsorbents via hydrothermal synthesis and ion exchange modification techniques for applications in compact air purification.
Euroclay 2023 – Best Oral Presentations
Klaudia Dziewiątka (Poland): TiO2-loaded nanotubular materials based on kaolin group minerals as spatially confined nanoreactors for photodegradation of deoxynivalenol.
Euroclay 2023 – Best Poster Presentations
Gabriela Maria Matos Demiti (Brazil): Modified zeolites in the treatment of water contaminated with cephalexin.