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Ying Zhen Li
Senior research scientist
Contact Ying ZhenISTSS Awards
To recognize significant contributions and excellence in tunnel safety and security, ISTSS releases three awards at each symposium: the ISTSS Achievement Award, the ISTSS Best Paper Award, and the ISTSS Best Poster Award. These awards are usually announced by the Chair of the ISTSS Scientific Committee at the banquet on Day 2 of each ISTSS symposium.
ISTSS Achievement Award
Criteria and Procedure
The ISTSS Achievement Award is to recognize significant contributions to the development of tunnel safety and security. This prestigious award is elected by the ISTSS Scientific Committee (SC). It consists of two steps, i.e., nomination and voting. Each committee member makes up to 3 nominations. Then the top 3 nominees are selected for the voting. To avoid conflict of interest, if one SC member is nominated, she/he cannot vote, and this also applies to other SC members at the same institution.
List of winners
Year Recipient
2010 Dr Alan Beard, Heriot-Watt University
2012 William D. Kennedy,
Parson Brinkerhoff
2014 Dr Yajue Wu,
Sheffield University
2016 Dr Graham Atkinson, Health & Safety Laboratory
2018 Dr Ricky Carvel, University of Edinburgh
2020 Alfred Haack, Former Managing Director of STUVA
2023 Prof. Haukur Ingason, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
ISTSS Best Paper Award
Criteria and Procedure
The ISTSS Best Paper Award is selected by ISTSS Organizing Committee based on the quality of the papers included in the proceedings.
List of winners
2012 George Hadjisophocleous, Duck Hee Lee and Won Hee Park
2014 Arnas Vaitkevicius, Francesco Colella and Ricky Carvel
2016 Raymond Klein, Igor Maevski, Hyun Soo Ko & Yuan Li
2018 Xiaoyun Wang, Charles Fleishmann & Michael Spearpoint
2020 Tianhang Zhang, Ganyu Wang, Kaijie Wu, Yadong Huang, Kai Zhu & Ke Wu
2023 Jo Skjermo, Claudia Moscoso, Daniel Nilsson, Håkan Frantzich, Åsa S. Hoem, Petter Arnesen and Gunnar D. Jenssen
ISTSS Best Poster Award
Criteria and Procedure
The ISTSS Best Poster Award is selected by ISTSS Organizing Committee based on the quality of the poster and the presentation at the symposium.
List of winners
2014 Florian Berchtold, Sebastian Thöns, Christian Knaust, Andreas Rogge
2016 Xinmin Du, Hao Zhao
2020 Tim Usner, Armin Feltmann
2023 Melchior Schepers, Wout Verborgt, Xavier Deckers and Bart De Pauw
