Awardees of the InterPore awards 2020

Our sincere congratulations go out to the following award recipients for their considerable achievements:

Honorary Lifetime Membership Award

Harry Vereecken
Forschungszentrum Jülich IBG-3, Germany

Harry Vereecken received a Ph.D. in agricultural sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (1988). He obtained his habilitation in hydrogeology 1997 at Bonn University, Germany. Since 2000, he is full Professor at Bonn University, Faculty of Agriculture, and director of the Agrosphere Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH. He is member of the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, scientific director of TERENO, a network of environmental observatories in Germany, chair of the International Soil Modeling Consortium (ISMC) and honorary professor at Tianjin University, China. He served as associate editor, co-editor and Editor-in-Chief of Vadose Zone Journal. His research interests include hydrology, hydrogeophysics, and soil science.

InterPore Procter and Gamble Award for Thin and Swelling Porous Media

Amir Raoof
Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Amir Raoof got his PhD in 2011 at Utrecht University where he developed a comprehensive pore-scale computational package, called PoreFlow. His research focuses on the upscaling of multi-phase flow and reactive transport through numerical simulations and pore-scale experiments related to natural and industrial porous media. He is the director of Multiscale Porous Media Lab at Utrecht University where he coordinates design and performance of microscopic experiments for small and thin porous media. He was awarded several national and international research grants, and, in education, he received the 2018 Teacher Talent Award of the Year by the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University. Amir is also a selected member of Utrecht Young Academy, aiming to exchange critical perspectives on academia, policy, and society in Utrecht and beyond.

InterPore – PoreLab Award for Young Researchers

Hamed Aslannejad
Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Hamed is a post-doc researcher at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His current research concerns the interaction of water-based inks and paper in inkjet printing. Among other aspects, he investigates the motion of ink pigments into paper layers using pore-scale models. The research results will be used to develop a novel class of inks for high-quality inkjet printing. Hamed received his Ph.D. in January 2019, from Utrecht University with the distinction of cum laude (the highest distinction for a PhD degree in the Netherlands). His thesis was titled “Imbibition into a thin porous medium: an experimental and pore-scale modeling study of coated paper”. Hamed has 18 publications with a total citation count of 115.

 InterPore Award for Excellence in Porous Media Research

Tanguy Le Borgne
Université de Rennes 1, France

Tanguy Le Borgne is Professor at the University of Rennes 1, France. His research focuses on the study of transport and reaction phenomena in heterogeneous porous and fractured media. He tackles these problems by blending theory, modeling and experiments performed over scales ranging from micromodels to field tests. He is coordinating the French national network of hydrogeological experimental sites (http://hplus.ore.fr/en/). He has published 87 articles in peer-reviewed international journals. After graduating jointly from the Nancy School of Mines and from a Master of Science in hydrology at Imperial College London in 2001, he obtained his PhD degree at the University of Rennes 1 in 2004. He was then a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Montpellier and at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona, under a Marie Curie European research grant. He was appointed Associate Professor in 2007 and full Professor in 2015 at the University of Rennes 1. He was awarded a consolidator grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in 2015.

Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lectureship Award

Muhammad Sahimi
University of Southern California, USA

Muhammad Sahimi is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and the NIOC Chair in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Tehran in 1977 and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1984, both in chemical engineering. He joined USC in 1984, and was the Chair of his Department from 1999-2005. His research interests include flow, transport, reaction, adsorption and deformation in porous media, characterization of fracture network of rock, transport of fluid mixtures in membranes, and transport of fluids and macromolecules in nanostructured materials. He has published over 400 papers and 4 books, and has received several teaching and research awards, including the InterPore’s Honorary Member Award for Lifetime Achievements.