
Barbara Maestracci presenting her award-winning work in Poitiers during JNGG
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Barbara Maestracci has been awarded the Jean Goguel prize for her outstanding work on the methodological approach of combined XRF-XRD (benchtop analyzer), in collaboration with the SOLSA-DEM'UP team (BRGM, TerrAnalytiX, University of Trento). She will be awarded her prize at the 12th 'Journées nationales de géotechnique et de géologie de l'ingénieur (JNGG)' in Poitiers from 25 to 28 June 2024.
This prize is awarded every 2 years to a researcher or engineer under the age of 35 who applies the knowledge and skills of a geologist in an engineering or environmental field.
Authors: Barbara Maestracci, Sylvain Delchini, Daniel Chateigner, Henry Pilliere, Luca Lutterotti, Evgeny Borovin
June 2023, Journal of Geochemical Exploration 252(3):107250
DOI:10.1016/j.gexplo.2023.107250
*Jean Goguel (2 January 1908 – 5 January 1987) was a French geologist and geophysicist. He was an Honorary Fellow of the Geological Societies of America, of London, and of Belgium. He played an important leadership role in the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics and he was made chairman of the European Association of Exploration Geophysicists in 1952.