Juliana Troch receives the 2022 Paul Niggli Medal

The Board of the Paul Niggli Foundation decided, in their session of 2nd June 2022, to award the Paul Niggli Medal for the year 2022 to Juliana Troch, in recognition of her innovative research combining field work, experimental petrology and modelling to understand the evolution of fluids in magmatic systems. In 2020, she continued her postdoctoral research at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC conducting multi-disciplinary research including experimental studies on magmas, melts and fluid controlling ascent and eruption of magmas at the Earth surface and fluid-mediated processes associated with them. Juliana is among the rare species of petrologist / volcanologist who not only masters a large number of different methods and techniques ranging from field studies to petrology and geochemistry to experimental petrology and numerical modelling, but Juliana is a very creative and imaginative scientist who explores new avenues of research to target imminent questions in petrology and volcanology such as the recent topic of late stage magmatic fluids that have direct impact on hydrothermal ore forming processes. Juliana’s main interests are the fundamental understanding of how magmatic systems work in particular how volcanoes form, operate and impact on the surface and the habitability of our planet.