- June 13, 2020
- Posted by: saeed
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InterPore PoreLab Award for Young Researchers
(formerly Fraunhofer Award for Young Researchers)
This award is given to a young researcher in recognition of outstanding contributions in the field of porous media from a fundamental point of view. The research may be theoretical, computational, or experimental. More information on the new selection criteria for the 2024/2025 awards cycle can be found here. The award is made possible by a generous grant from PoreLab, a Center of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway and situated at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the University of Oslo.
Award winners will receive a grant of 1000 Euro towards participating in the InterPore meeting wherein the award ceremony will be held.
In addition, the awardee will be offered to spend up to 60 days within one year after receiving their award, with the PoreLab in Norway. This is not a commitment, but an option and can be achieved through up to four visits. Should the awardee choose this option, a detailed declaration of intent from the awardee to visit PoreLab (including the agenda of the visits to PoreLab agreed with PoreLab) should be submitted to InterPore before the Award Ceremony during the InterPore meeting. If the awardee chooses to visit PoreLab, he/she will be given a stipend of 50 Euro per day for up to 60 days of visiting PoreLab, either at the NTNU or the University of Oslo. PoreLab will reimburse as well and directly to the awardee, the travel and accommodation expenses connected with the visits upon presentation of the receipts.
Nominees must be PhD students or Postdoc researchers who obtained the PhD degree no longer than 3 years before the award nomination deadline and must be an InterPore member.*
*Nominees from Low- and Middle-Income countries LMI countries, as defined by the World Bank, are not subject to this requirement.
Nomination packages should include:
- a full CV of the candidate,
- a nomination letter (maximum length two pages) describing specific contributions of the nominee to porous media research during the last 10 years (not counting the current year). The nomination letter should end with a citation statement; an example: “this nominee has made outstanding contributions to the physics of transport in porous media in several fields, such as non-newtonian fluid flow, drying and imbibition, colloidal transport, mass transfer in wood, and the use of NMR for imaging,”
- up to two additional supporting letters (maximum length two pages),
- and related documentation (publications, reports) supporting the nomination.
The nominator must be a member of InterPore. Self-nominations are not accepted.
Nomination packages should be submitted to nomination@interpore.org.
Deadline for submission of complete nomination package: November 15th
A word of gratitude:
This award has been made possible by a generous grant from PoreLab (a research center of excellence jointly formed by Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)) in Trondheim and the University of Oslo (UiO). PoreLab focuses on the physics of porous media using experimental, theoretical and computational methods.