InterPore is pleased to announce that Michel Quintard is the winner of the InterPore Meritorious Service Medal for 2026.

Michel Quintard is CNRS Research Director Emeritus at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics in Toulouse (France). Elected in 2019, he served as InterPore President from 2021 to 2023. He was chair of the Honors and Awards Committee (2016-2019) and currently serves as a member of the InterPore Chapter Committee. He also chaired the France InterPore Chapter from its creation in 2014 until 2021.

His research interests cover all modeling aspects of multiphase, multicomponent, reactive transport in porous media, with emphasis on multi-scale phenomena. His contributions span from fundamental perspectives (upscaling theories, mixed-scale couplings, non-equilibrium models, effective boundary conditions) to a broad range of applications in petroleum engineering (double-porosity systems, non-Newtonian and viscoelastic flows, thermal recovery methods), environmental hydrogeology (NAPL transport, dissolution), nuclear engineering and safety, chemical engineering (flow in structured media, waste biodegradation, adsorption), heat transfer, superfluid flows, and biomechanics (biofilms, brain circulation, bone cancer).

InterPore and InterPore Foundation congratulate Prof. Quintard on this honor and wish him continued success.