Science Achievement Award 2022

This award recognizes outstanding contributions to science and technology in the field of rock mechanics and rock engineering, and was conferred on Prof. Jean Sulem, nominated by the NG France.

John Hudson Rock Engineering Award 2022

This award Is conferred on individual or corporate members of the ISRM in recognition of achievements in engineering practice and was conferred on Dr Christine Detournay, USA.

Young Rock Engineer Award 2022

This award acknowledges excellence in the field of rock engineering by ISRM members who are in early stages of their career and was conferred on Dr Yota Togashi, nominated by the NG Japan.

Rocha medal 2023

The Rocha medal is awarded annually for an outstanding doctoral thesis. The Rocha Award Committee selected the winner of the Rocha Medal 2023 and two runners-up. The winner will deliver the RochaLecture during the 16th ISRM International Congress in Salzburg, Austria, in October 2023.

• Winner: Jun Zhao, from China, with the thesis "Study on time-dependent failure mechanism and long-term stability of hard rock in deep buried tunnel" presented at the Northeastern University, China.
• Runner-up: Rupesh Verma, from India, with thw thesis "A combined theoretical-experimental-numerical approach to characterization and modelling of rock fracture and rock burst" presented at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
• Runner-up: Cyrille Couture, from Canada, with the thesis "Mechanical characterization of porous sandstones in true triaxial conditions: diffuse and localized deformation, effect of anisotropy" presented at the Université Grenoble Alpes, France.