InterPore is pleased to announce that J. Jaime Gómez-Hernández is the 2026 recipient of the InterPore Lifetime Achievement Medal.

Prof. Gómez-Hernández (Requena, Spain, 1960) is a Full Professor of Hydraulic Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), where he leads research and teaching in applied geostatistics, stochastic hydrogeology, and inverse modeling for groundwater characterization and uncertainty quantification.  He earned his Civil Engineering degree at Universidad Politècnica de València (1983) and completed an M.Sc. in Applied Hydrogeology (1987) and a Ph.D. in Geostatistics (1990) at Stanford University.  His work is widely recognized in mathematical geosciences and groundwater science, including contributions to methods and software for simulating subsurface heterogeneity and supporting decision-making in groundwater and related environmental applications.  He has received major international honors such as the William Christian Krumbein Medal (International Association of Mathematical Geosciences, 2020), or the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW, 2020), and was included in the 2021 Forbes list with the 50 Most Internationally Awarded Spaniards together with celebrities such as Rafa Nadal or Antonio Banderas.

InterPore and InterPore Foundation congratulate Prof. Gómez-Hernández on this honor and wish him continued success.