Dear InterPore friends,

Just in case you’re into special numbers: Today’s issue is number 20 in the year 2020. It may not
mean a lot, but if you miss it, it won’t happen again.

Something that does bear some meaning is being awarded with one of the
prestigious InterPore awards. It is still possible to nominate candidates for this. Please
consider your colleagues and realize that this can be a major boost for their career or a
well-deserved acknowledgement for a life-long contribution to porous media science.

Take care,

Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News

InterPore Program Committee Chair and
Vice-Chair

The previous InterPore Program Committee

After several years of service at the helm of the Program Committee, Hadi Hajibeygi and Rainer Helmig
have stepped down as co-chairs effective September 15, 2020. We commend and thank them for their
dedication and service to the InterPore Community. They have invested significant time and effort
over the years to provide InterPore with scientific, interesting and well organized programs. We
thank them both for their continuous efforts and for their dedication to making InterPore
conferences a great success.

The new InterPore Program Committee

We are pleased to announce that the InterPore Executive Committee has appointed Patrick Jenny (ETH
Zürich) and Sridhar Ranganathan (Kimberly-Clark) as the new Chair and Vice-chair, respectively, of
the Program Committee. Patrick and Sridhar have had an active role in all recent InterPore
conferences and InterPore is fortunate that they have accepted this very important role.

Letter from the French
Chapter

Dear colleagues,

After the shock of the pandemic crisis of COVID-19, we are all mobilized to recover our activities
and restart our research projects.

Due to the uncertain situation in the coming months and probably most of next semester, the
Organizing Committee of the JEMP2020 and the FIC have decided to postpone the conference until the
end of October 2021. Further information will be given when exact dates are decided. As we all enjoy
the convivial spirit of the congress, we will be happy to see you all under better conditions next
year, and we’ll also be eager to rediscover some Alsatian specialties. So, we are looking forward to
seeing all of you next year, at the JEMP2021!

Further information on this event can be found here.

In the meantime, please stay healthy.

The French Chapter Organizing Committee

The call for InterPore award nominations
is open. Nominate a worthy recipient!

InterPore recognizes researchers for excellence across disciplines and throughout varying career
stages. Please note that the nomination submission deadline for the following InterPore Awards is
November 1st!

Honorary Lifetime
Member Award

Reserved for individuals for individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to porous media
science and technology, who are world renown in the porous media community, and whose contributions
are consistent with the aims and ideals of InterPore.

Kimberly-Clark
Distinguished Lectureship

Awarded to a porous media researcher with a very high international recognition and excellent
presentation skills, working on a broad range of porous media topics.

InterPore
Medal for Porous Media Research (senior)

Awarded to senior researchers in recognition of outstanding research in general porous media, with
emphasis on research conducted over the past 10 years.

InterPore
Award for Porous Media Research (mid-career)

Awarded to mid-career researchers (up to 12 years after PhD) with outstanding research record in
general porous media, with emphasis over the last five years.

PoreLab
Award for Young Researchers

For outstanding contributions in the field of porous media from a fundamental point of view, achieved
within three years after PhD.

Rien
van Genuchten Early-Career Award of Porous Media for a Green World

Awarded to an early-career researcher with the general topic of “porous media research for a green
world” as a main focus. Preferentially intended for young researchers from countries with low- or
middle-income economies as defined by the World Bank.

The nomination deadline for all the aforementioned awards is November 1, 2020. Please click on the
links for specific details for each award, or visit our Honors & Awards
page.

We are happy to invite you to our next Porous Media Tea Time Talks (#PorousMediaTTT) session
at 6 October at 10.30 am CEST local
time on our YouTube
Channel.

The goal of the Porous Media TTT is to act as a complimentary platform to the already very successful
Geoscience and Geoenergy
webinars with the focus placed on young professionals.

We are very much looking forward to seeing you online!

Catherine Spurin (ICL), Kamalijt Singh (HW), Marcel Moura (PoreLab, UiO), Tom Bultreys (UGhent),
Mohammad Nooraiepour (UiO), Maja Ruecker (ICL)

Promote your Publication

Editorial: Advances in porous media science and engineering from InterPore2020 perspective

Jianchao Cai, Hadi Hajibeygi, Jun Yao, S. Majid Hassanizadeh

An editorial has been published in the journal Advances in Geo-Energy Research which
summarizes the InterPore2020 conference. The current scientific topics and challenges are discussed
along with the keynote speeches, invited talks and invited poster pitches. Also, the career
potential for young researchers is identified as a crucial topic for future research success.

Advances in Geo-Energy
Research Vol. 4, No. 4, p. 352-355, 2020 Corresponding Authors: Jianchao Cai, Hadi Hajibeygi, Jun
Yao and S. Majid Hassanizadeh

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• Senior
  scientist (permanent position), Institute of Geo-Hydroinformatics, Hamburg University of
  Technology, Germany
• Technical
  Manager (permanent position), Institute of Geo-Hydroinformatics, Hamburg University of
  Technology, Germany