InterPore Award Winners

InterPore Medal for Porous Media Research

With great pleasure, we can announce that this year’s InterPore Medal for Porous Media Researchhas been awarded to Marco Dentz for his excellent contributions to porous media research.

Professor Dr. Marco Dentz

Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA)
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Barcelona, Spain

Marco Dentz is a professor at the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Barcelona. His research focuses on hydrodynamic flow and transport in porous media and the quantitative understanding of flow, mixing and reactive transport phenomena from the pore to the regional scale. He combines theory, numerical simulation, and new data-analysis strategies to shed light on the fundamental mechanisms of flow, transport and deformation in heterogeneous porous and fracture media, and to derive theories and models for process prediction at large spatial and temporal scales. He received a Diploma degree in Physics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 1997, where he also received a Dr. rer. nat. in 2000. After a postdoctoral stay at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, with a Minerva fellowship, he joined the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona as a Ramón y Cajal Fellow. Since 2009, he has been a full professor at IDAEA-CSIC.

InterPore Award for Porous Media Research

We’re happy to announce that this year’s InterPore Award for Porous Media Research has been awarded to Hadi Hajibeygi for his excellent contributions to porous media research.

Dr. Hadi Hajibeygi

TU Delft
The Netherlands

Hadi is an associate professor at TU Delft, where he teaches and leads research on modeling, simulation and sensitivity analysis of subsurface processes for large-scale renewable energy storage, geo-energy exploitation, and greenhouse gas storage. He co-leads Delft Advanced Reservoir Simulation (DARSim) and leads TU Delft Subsurface Storage Theme. He has been co-chair of the InterPore scientific program committee for 3 years, and is in the committee of ECMOR & MIT Energy Symposium. He was the most Innovative Teaching Talent of TU Delft in 2018, holds a PhD with medal from ETH Zurich, and has experience with Chevron Energy Technology Company in California. He did his post-doctoral research at Stanford University until 2013 when he joined TU Delft. He is a Dutch National Science ViDi Laurette of 2019.