EMU poster prizes 2021

During the 3rd European Mineralogical Conference EMC2020 (29th August – 2nd September 2021, Cracow, Poland), the Poster Prize committee of the European Mineralogical Union (EMU) awarded six excellent poster contributions of young talented researchers by three Poster Awards and three Honorable Mentions.

Poster Awards

Tommaso Battiston

Tommaso Battiston


Poster title: Thermal and compressional behaviour of natural borates: a potentially aggregates in radiation-shielding concretes

Tommaso Battiston is a PhD student at the University of Milan (Italy). His research activity is focused on the behavior of geomaterials at non-ambient conditions, and in particular on crystal-fluid interaction in microporous compounds at high pressure and temperature.

Johannes Pohlner

Johannes Pohlner


Poster title: Inter-mineral Fe isotope fractionation in eclogites of the Münchberg Massif (Germany) as a function of oxidation state

Johannes Pohlner is a PhD student at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He uses trace element and oxygen isotope geochemistry on the bulk-rock and mineral scale to reconstruct igneous, hydrothermal, and metamorphic processes in high-pressure rocks, with a special focus on Fe isotopes. His other research interests are U-Pb geochronology of accessory minerals, and the tectonic evolution of the peri-Gondwana terranes during the Paleozoic.

Henrique Straioto

Henrique Straioto


Poster title: Modification of natural zeolites to remove the herbicide (2,4-dichlorophenoxy)acetic acid from water through the adsorption process

Henrique Straioto is a PhD student at the State University of Maringá (Brazil). His scientific interests are in the areas of civil construction, as well as in the treatment of water and sanitary/industrial effluents.

Honorable Mentions

Mateusz Skalny

Mateusz Skalny


Poster title: Desulfurization of Liquid fuels by Ag modified Fly ash derived Na-X zeolite-carbon composite

Mateusz Skalny is a PhD student at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow (Poland). He develops an idea of liquid fuel desulfurization by adsorption using mineral adsorbents. His research is focused on modification of porous mineral materials with transition metals, like nickel, copper or silver and applying them as adsorbents for organosulfur compounds present in different fuels. This novel procedure may decrease refining costs and sulfur dioxide emission to the atmosphere.

Veronica Stopponi

Veronica Stopponi


Poster title: Mobility of volatile-bearing magmas in oxidised planetesimals: implications for CO2 loss and storage during accretion

Veronica Stopponi is a PhD student at the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). She is interested in investigating properties of melts and glasses as they undergo extreme pressure and temperature conditions, as well as their significance for processes occurring in deep Earth and other planetary interiors. In particular, she aims to make a step forward towards the understanding of mantle magmas dynamics by determining experimentally viscosity and atomic structure of volatile-rich melts at high pressure and temperature by means of synchrotron-based techniques.

Shashi Tamang

Shashi Tamang


Poster title: Barrovian metamorphism in the Lesser Himalayan Sequence of Central Nepal seen through the eyes of aluminous metapelites

Shashi Tamang is a PhD student at the University of Turin (Italy). He is performing his research on the variation of metamorphic CO2 outputs from the Nepal Himalayas along the strike and comparing the past production with the present emissions. His research project is focused on the processes responsible for both past and present-day metamorphic CO2 productions in the Nepal Himalaya.