Please join us:
Date: Friday, 13th of February, 2026. 12:00 - 16:00
Place:

• 12:00 at the restaurant Castle Residence Praha, Kvetinarska, Praha 8. LC EAGE will host everybody for lunch. http://www.castleresidence.eu/en/home
• 14:00 at T1 lecture room MFF UK - Troja V Holešovičkách 747/2, Praha 8 Ceremony will take place in T1 lecture room on ground floor. how to get there: https://www.mff.cuni.cz/en/internal-affairs/buildings-and-campuses/troja

Dear participants of the Vlastislav Cerveny Student Prize,

thank you for submission of your innovative MSc. or Bc. thesis to the Vlastislav Červený Student Prize. The evaluation committee recognized the high quality and innovativness demonstrated in all submitted works. As a result, the selection process was particularly challenging, with only minor details distinguishing the top entries. Consequently, the committee selected two winners and awarded three honorable mentions.
The winners are:

* In the MSc. thesis category MSc. Angelin Mariam Binny of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat München (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences), supervised by Dr. Felix Bernauer, with the thesis entitled 'Seismic Response Evaluation in Six Degrees of Freedom: Insights from Shake Table Experiment'. The commission appreciated the innovative idea of the thesis, detailed description of theory, overcoming large dataset processing and clear message of the thesis with application to the anti-seismic design of buildings.

* In the Bc. thesis category, Bc. Jan Hohermuth of the Faculty of Science, ETH Zurich (Earth and Climate Sciences, Geology and Geophysics), advisor Dr. Cédric Schmelzbach and Dr. Alexis Shakas with the thesis entitled 'Measuring acceleration and rotation caused by tree sway using low-cost inertial motion sensors'. The commission appreciated thorough ability to program and set own instrumentation for testing and carrying out benchmarks with application to the tree damage.

The winners (thanks to our main sponsor INSET s.r.o. and sponsors EAGE, Seismik s.r.o., G Impuls Praha s.r.o., Faculty of Math and Physics and Faculty of Science, Charles University) will receive 1,000 Euro and 500 Euro (MSc. and Bc., respectively), free EAGE student membership for 2026 and a voucher for the EAGE online learning course.

In addition, the commission decided to award the Honorary award to

* Bc. Bohdan Rieznikov of Technical University of Ostrava (Faulty of el. Eng. and Computer Science) with Bc. thesis titled 'Classification of Seismic Events Using Recurrent Neural Networks' (advisor Dr. Marek Pecha) appreciating excellent review of methodology and is looking forward to future application.
* MSc. Helena Simić of University of Vienna (Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy) with MSc. thesis 'Seismic attenuation from seismic ambient noise recordings: application to short-term nodal deployment ', (supervisor Univ.-Prof. Dr. Götz Bokelmann). Committee appreciated novelty of the adopted approach and methodological approach which included assessment of uncertainties in the inverted attenuation and target of practical application for geothermal.
* MSc. Felix Schweikl of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat München (Department of Statistics) with MSc. thesis 'Time Series Analysis for Prediction of Geomagnetic Indices' (supervisors PD. Dr. Fabian Scheipl, Dr. Artem Smirnov, PD. Dr. Elena Kronberg) appreciating excellent statistical analysis of complex data and well written thesis.

The honorary award winner will receive the EAGE student membership for 2026 and an EAGE online learning course.

We invite all to Prague to the award ceremony on February 13 (or February 9) for in-person-online presentation, the awardees are going to be contacted shortly with the selection of suitable date and further details.

Leo Eisner on behalf of organizers.

Dear colleagues,

Thank you for submission of your high quality MSc. or Bc. thesis to the Vlastislav Červený Student Prize. The commission of evaluators appreciated high quality of all submitted works. The 2024 Prize was the most competitive both in quality and the number of participants.
The winners are:

* The MSc. thesis category MSc. Timothée Delcourt of ETH Zurich (advisor prof. Dr. Andrew Jackson, co-supervisor prof. Dr. Andreas Fichtner) with thesis titled 'Is there no free lunch in low dimensional parameter estimation?'. The commission appreciated the exhaustive approach to the evaluation of Bayesian methods applied to minimization of rough multimodal functions, the innovative development of the likelihood-free algorithms, and not the least, the exceptional quality of presentation of the results.

* The Bc. thesis category Bc. Patrick Pfammatter of ETH Zurich (advisor Dr. Cedric Schmelzbach, additional supervisor MSc Tjeerd Kiers) with thesis titled 'Seismic tomography of an alpine landslide using Distributed Acoustic Sensing'. The commission considered very highly the practical application of large dataset processing and new methods developed for DAS processing.

The winners (thanks to our main sponsor Gas Storage CZ and sponsors EAGE, Seismik s.r.o., G Impuls Praha s.r.o. and Geophysical Institute) will receive 1,000 Euro and 600 Euro (MSc. and Bc., respectively), free EAGE student membership for 2024 and Voucher for an EAGE online learning course.

In addition, the commission decided to award Honorary awards to

* Bc. Barbora Marešová of Faculty of Science, Charles University for Bc. thesis titled 'Geophysical prospection of Early Medieval settlements' (advisor Jan Valenta) appreciating her field work combined with application of geophysics to archeology.
* MSc. Zbyněk Fojt of Faculty of Science of Masaryk University for MSc. thesis titled 'Landslides near Semanín fault between Ústí nad Orlicí and Semanín' appreciating the combination of extensive field work combined with detailed analysis of inputs, data processing and practical aspect of the work.

The honorary award winners will receive the EAGE student membership for 2024.

We will organize the award ceremony in Prague. Once we agree on the date, we will announce it and invite you.

Leo Eisner on behalves of organizers.