Ruben Juanes has been awarded the InterPore Medal for Porous Media Research.

Ruben Juanes is a professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been since 2006. He is an expert in fluid flow through porous media and in geomechanics, and has applied his research to the fields of energy resources, carbon capture and storage, gas hydrates, water infiltration and soil irrigation, and induced seismicity. He holds an undergraduate degree from University of A Coruña and graduate degrees from University of California, Berkeley, all in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2023) and the American Physical Society (2024), and recipient of the InterPore Medal for Porous Media Research (2026).

InterPore congratulates Prof. Juanes on this distinguished honor and thanks him for his outstanding leadership and lasting impact on the porous media community.