April 11, 2025

2025 – Gerald Tuskan, USA

For his pioneering work in sequencing and analyzing the first tree genome. His leadership in this project has revolutionized research in tree and forest genomics and biotechnology, paving the way for genome-based breeding of commercially important trees.

April 17, 2024

2024 – John Ralph, USA and Wout Boerjan, Belgium

For their groundbreaking research leading to a greater understanding of lignin biosynthesis and structural diversity.

April 24, 2023

2023 – Darius M. Adams, Joseph Buongiorno and Richard Haynes, USA

For their development of the original groundbreaking forest economic models TAMM, PAPYRUS and GFPM.

November 21, 2022

2022 – Ilkka Kilpeläinen, Finland, and Herbert Sixta, Austria

For the development and use of novel ionic liquids to process wood biomass into high-performance textile fibres.

August 25, 2020

2020 – Joseph J Landsberg, Australia, Richard H Waring, USA, and Nicholas C Coops, Canada

For their groundbreaking work in developing forest growth models based on tree ecophysiology, and further development of these models to widespread geospatial forest analysis using remote sensing..

March 22, 2019

2019 – Gerhard Schickhofer, Austria

for his role in providing insightful scientific and engineering research data required to standardize wood-based construction products with..

April 17, 2018

2018 – Torgny Näsholm, Sweden

for his groundbreaking research of the role of organic nitrogen in the nutrition of trees. The ability of boreal forests to take up..

March 20, 2017

2017 – Ronald R. Sederoff, USA

for his breakthroughs in developing methods for gene discovery in conifer species and further exploiting molecular methods in..

April 22, 2016

2016 – Alexander Katsevich, USA, and Federico Giudiceandrea, Italy

For their groundbreaking research and development work that has resulted in the realization of a high-speed X-ray-based computed tomography (CT) instrument and method for non-destructively..

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