Dr, Steffen Berg, PoreLab Scientific Advisory Board member, has been awarded the prestigious Darcy Award from the Society of Core Analysts, SCA (The Society of Core Analysts). Congratulations! The SCA board wrote the following to Steffen Berg: This recognition is a testament to your incredible dedication and exceptional contribution to our field. Your passion and
I am truly honored and grateful to accept the InterPore PoreLab award for Young Researchers – Chiara Recalcati Congratulations to Chiara Recalcati on receiving the 2025 InterPore-PoreLab Award for Young Researchers! Chiara is a postdoctoral researcher at MIPORE group. She obtained a double PhD degree in Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering (Politecnico di Milano) and Earth
Professor Alex Hansen Director for PoreLab joined the InterPore Honors and Awards Committee. The Honors and Awards Committee acts in the spirit of the InterPore mission to advance and disseminate knowledge for the understanding, description, and modelling of natural and industrial porous media. Linking academia and industry, it aims to identify and honor outstanding members
Reza Haghani won third place (Bronze medal) in the fourth international invention and innovation competition of the International Federation of Inventors (IFIA) in 2024 with the invention of a device to examine the alignment of the axes. This year’s fourth International Invention Competition saw impressive participation, with over 600 innovative inventions submitted by inventors from
Dr. Bauyrzhan K. Primkulov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Dr. Primkulov is currently an Instructor of Applied Mathematics, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. While only having completed his PhD in the Spring of 2022, Bauyrzhan has already displayed a high level of scientific accomplishment and academic maturity and has already demonstrated the ability
The 2023 winner of the Interpore-PoreLab award for young researchers is Dr. Pranay Shrestha, researcher at the University of Toronto, Canada. Pranay is working to advance sustainable energy technologies like fuel cells and the porous materials within them. Congratulations! Pranay received hid PhD degree from the University of Toronto in February 2023, working on “Experimental
The European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE) has named Signe Kjelstrup, professor emerita of physical chemistry at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, as the laureate of the 2022 EFCE Michael L. Michelsen Award. The honor, previously called the Distinguished Lecture on Thermodynamics and Transport Properties, is conferred every two years by
The InterPore Honorary Lifetime Membership Award is reserved for individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to porous media science and technology, who are world-renowned in the porous media community, and whose contributions are consistent with the aims and ideals of InterPore. InterPore is pleased to announce that the Honorary Lifetime Membership Award 2022 goes to
Congratulations to Joachim! Joachim Falck Brodin was awarded the Martin Landrø prize for outstanding master thesis in physics from the Norwegian Physical Society (Norsk Fysisk Selskap – NFS). He received his prize on June 24th. The Martin Landrø prize for outstanding master thesis in physics was established by NFS in 2011 based on a gift
Congratulations to Ailo! Ailo Aasen’s PhD thesis has been awarded the Excellence Award in Thermodynamics and Transport Properties from the European Federation of Chemical Engineers (EFCE). His supervisors were Prof. Øivind Wilhelmsen (PoreLab) and Dr. Morten Hammer (SINTEF Energy Research). This prize is awarded to one PhD thesis every other year. The thesis is entitled
Congratulations to Tom! Tom Vincent-Dospital has been awarded the Prix de Thèse de l’Université de Strasbourg (i.e. the PhD Prize of the University of Strasbourg). This prize is awarded to 20 PhD fellows every year (out of ~ 500 PhD defended every year in the whole University). This is a great achievement! From time to
Professor Daniel Bonn of the University of Amsterdam was awarded the Physica Award 2021 by the Dutch Physical Society. Congratulations ! Professor Daniel Bonn is a member of the PoreLab Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). He is a well-know expert in soft matter. He contributed to the understanding of complex fluids. He contributed as well to many
This year InterPore reported having a large number of high-quality nominees leading to a strong competition, but the members of the Honors and Awards Committee have made their choice. The InterPore-PoreLab award for young researchers goes to Dr. Maja Rücker from the department of Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Congratulations! Maja
The call for InterPore award nominations is now open and InterPore is looking for nominators of worthy candidates. Deadline for nominations is November 1, 2020.
Based on the recommendation of the Awards Committee of the International Society for Porous Media (InterPore), Dr. Hamed Aslannejad has been selected to receive the InterPore – PoreLab Award 2020 for Young Researchers. Congratulations! Hamed is a post-doc researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His current research concerns the interaction of water-based inks and
