Awards

Alan Garnett Davenport (September 19, 1932 - July 19, 2009)

A Senior Award is granted to an individual with a record of outstanding achievement, typically within the past ten years, demonstrated through at least two of the following areas: significant and original contributions to wind engineering research; practical applications in wind engineering; educational contributions to the field of wind engineering; and active involvement in the international wind engineering community.

Davenport Medal

Senior Award

2026

Peter Vickery

Applied Research Associates, USA

2023

Gregory Kopp

Western University, Canada

2022

Yaojun Ge

Tongji University, China

2020

Chris Baker

The University of Birmingham, UK

2019

Kenny C.S. Kwok

The University of Sydney, Australia

2018

You-Lin Xu

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

2017

W. H. Melbourne

MEL Consultants Pty Ltd, Australia

2016

Yukio Tamura

Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan

2015

Peter A. Irwin

RWDI, Canada

2014

Giorgio Diana

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

2013

Haifan Xiang

Tongji University, China

2012

Ted Stathopoulos

Concordia University, Canada

2011

John D. Holmes

JDH Consulting, Australia

Masaru Matsumoto

Kyoto University, Japan

Giovanni Solari

University of Genova, Italy

Barry J. Vickery

University of Western Ontario, Canada

2007

Shuzo Murakami

Keio University, Japan

Ahsan Kareem

University of Notre Dame, USA

Nick Cook

RWDI Anemos, UK

A Junior Award is awarded to a person who has a record of outstanding achievement, within the previous five-year period, in at least one of: significant and original contribution to wind engineering research; applications to wind engineering practice; educational contributions in the field of wind engineering.

Giovanni Solari Award

Junior Award

2026

Luca Patruno

University of Bologna, Italy

2025

Yanlin Guo

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

2024

Gang Hu

Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China

2023

Miguel Cid Montoya

Texas A & M University, USA

2022

Jinxin Cao

Tongji University, China

2021

Liang HU

Huazhong Univ of Sci. and Tech., China

2020

Hao Wang

Southeast University, China

2019

Franklin Lombardo

The Univ of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

2018

Kazuyoshi Nishijima

Kyoto University, Japan

2017

Teng Wu

The Univ at Buffalo, the State Univ. of New York, USA

2016

Tim K.T. Tse

The Hong Kong Univ of Science and Technology, China

2015

Vincent Denoël

The University of Liège, Belgium

2014

Forrest Masters

The University of Florida, USA

2013

Bert Blocken

Eindhoven University of Technology, Belgium

2012

John Schroeder

Texas Tech University, USA

2011

Tracy Kijewski-Correa

University of Notre Dame, USA

Claudio Mannini

University of Florence, USA

Maria Pia Repetto

University of Genoa, Italy

Atsushi Yamaguchi

The University of Tokyo, Japan

2007

Luigi Carassale

University of Genoa, Italy

Tetsuya Kitagawa

Nagoya University, Japan

Kurtis Gurley

University of Florida, USA