InterPore Election Results

Results of 2022 InterPore Elections are official!

The InterPore elections have concluded (as of 1 December 2022), and the Election Committee would like to thank all the candidates who stood for election and InterPore members who voted.

President-Elect

Congratulations to Vahid Niasar on being elected as President-Elect. Prof. Dr. Vahid Niasar is the professor and chair of Subsurface Engineering and Porous Media Physics at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Manchester, UK. He will be President-Elect for two years starting May 2023 and will become InterPore President two years later. At the same time, the current President-Elect, Karsten E. Thompson, will become President of InterPore.

Council Members

The four Council Members who have been elected for the 2023-2027 term (out of a total of eight candidates) are:

Monica Riva	Marie Elisabeth Rognes	Peyman Mostaghimi	Dominik Obrist

Peyman Mostaghimi and Monica Riva are currently members of the council and have been re-elected. Marie Elisabeth Rognes and Dominik Obrist will, as of May 2023, be new to the Council.

Student Affairs Committee

The four newly elected members of the Students Affairs Committee (SAC) are:

Chiara Recalcati	Carlos Felipe Silva Escalante	Mohammad Masoudi	Ramin Moghadasi

Starting 1 May 2023, they will work on the SAC together with Mohammad Nooraiepour, Manuela Bastidas Olivares and Nara Brandao Costa Santos. They will select a new chair of the Student Affairs Committee (currently Mohammad Nooraiepour), who will join the Council as the students’ representative.

Our sincere gratitude goes to the outgoing President, Michel Quintard (who will remain on the Executive Committee as Past President for a term of two years) and to the outgoing Council Members (elected in 2020), Veronika Schleper and Daniel Tartakovsky. Also, thanks to the outgoing SAC members Marco Sauermoser, Neerja Zambare, Javier E. Santos, and Cunqi Jia.

Our society has grown and improved due to your efforts and services to the community.

Best regards,

The InterPore Election Committee

Gabriel Wittum
Chair