Dear InterPore colleagues,

Once a major event such as InterPore2022 has finished, the adrenaline seeps away from the organizers, and it is a good time to take some rest. And when recovered, it is a pleasure to read through the feedback from you all. Very positive remarks and some fair, constructive criticism that will help to keep improving our annual InterPore meetings. You can read the report below.

Also in our Newsletter today are the MDWI poster price winners, InterPore chapter news, a conference announcement and a new committee that has been formed.

Happy reading!

Matthijs de Winter
Editor-in-Chief
InterPore News

InterPore2022 Feedback Report

InterPore2022 was already a month ago! Thanks again to all the participants and a special thanks to the feedback that was provided via our post-conference survey. Your input is crucial to help us improve and stay close to what our participants need and want.

Overall, InterPore2022 participants were very satisfied with the quality of the scientific program and enjoyed the conference.

93% of the participants rated the quality of the scientific program high or very high.

We are happy to see that we have regular participants who are recommending the conference.

Indeed, 55% of the participants attended the conference for the 2nd time and more and, 68% of people who attended for the 1st time heard about the conference from word of mouth.

We have noticed that our audience is very young (54% of the participants are between 25 and 35 years old), and we will think about offers to satisfy them more, not only regarding their career development but also regarding opportunities to network and socialize.

It was our first time organizing a hybrid conference.

The satisfaction about the hybrid format is mixed. The majority of our participants would prefer to attend in-person, but it seems that it was important to offer an online option since 60% of our participants joined online, mainly because it allowed them to participate despite travelling restrictions and fear of meeting in person in a complicated health context. It also allowed some participants to join at a lower cost.

We heard the feedback that sometimes the online participants felt less engaged, and the chairs sometimes missed their questions.

We also heard the feedback that people would prefer to have all presenters and poster sessions in-person.

89% of the participants were satisfied with the online platform Whova.

We have also heard your wish to organize more in-person opportunities to interact, network and socialize and we will strive to organize better the social activities and poster sessions.

Unfortunately, some suggestions cannot be fulfilled due to major drawbacks.

For example, it was requested to have fewer parallel sessions and/or more time for each oral presentation. While these options have clear advantages, it does mean a significantly smaller number of oral presentations which wouldn’t satisfy the need to have a large choice of presentations and therefore topics.

We also took note to remind the session chairs of the importance to keep the presentations on track to allow time for questions.

An interesting fact is that 76% of the participants were male. We of course hope to see more women participate in the next few years.

We are also happy to report that the conference allowed participants to build a community and that the presented research results have inspired them.

We hope to see you at InterPore2023 in Edinburgh!

Mexican Chapter News

Mexico InterPore Chapter of InterPore (CMI) was founded in 2014, as one of the first InterPore chapters. Since then, it has had many activities, including regular and active annual meetings, as well as a noticeable expansion.

The Mexico InterPore Chapter won the 2020 InterPore National Chapter Award, given in recognition of the many activities organized by a chapter in recent years and of its contribution to make the InterPore society flourish.

Anne M. Hansen (Hydrology Division, Mexican Institute of Water Technology, Mexico) was the Chair of the Chapter and won a Rosette at InterPore2022 for excellent services provided as Chair of the Mexico InterPore Chapter.

InterPore would like to thank her for her role as Chair of the Mexico InterPore Chapter and welcome Rodolfo Camacho-Velazquez (UNAM) as the new Chair!

We are also pleased to announce a new Steering Committee:

Chair: Rodolfo Camacho-Velazquez UNAM	Vice-Chair: Carlos Gilberto Aguilar-Madera UANL

Secretary: Anabel Hernández-Ramírez IG-UNAM	Student Representative: Carlos Felipe Silva-Escalante UNAM	Communication Representative: Fernando Javier Alcántara-López

6th UK Chapter meeting

12-13 September 2022, Brunel University

Local organizing committee

• Dr Jun Xia (Chair)
• Dr Nicodemo Di Pasquale
• Prof Hamid Bahai

Scope and topics

• Fundamental topics of porous media
• Porous media application in energy
• Porous media application in engineering
• Porous media application in health & environment

Scientific Committee

Registration

Please register here. Please note you will be eligible for the member fee only if you have an active InterPore membership.

InterPore Webinar Committee

The InterPore Academy is pleased to announce that a committee has been formed to coordinate the InterPore webinars and support the Academy’s mission to promote the educational, training, and research activities of InterPore.

Each year, a limited number of webinars on important topics pertinent to the society will be offered and archived on the InterPore website for a set period of time.

The committee will be chaired by Sebastian Geiger (TU Delft), with close support from the vice chairs Maartje Boon (TU Delft) and Julien Maes (Heriot-Watt University) and the committee members Eleonora Secchi (ETH Zurich) and Sorin Pop (Hasselt University).

The committee will initially remain in place for a term of 2 years.

The first webinars are expected to be broadcast in autumn 2022.

Call for Award Nominations

InterPore recognizes young and senior scientists for their contributions in the field of porous media research as a sign of appreciation and as we need you to nominate the candidates!

Please find more information about the InterPore Awards on this flyer.

MDPI Energies Student Poster Award 2022

Under the leadership of Mohaddeseh Mousavi Nezhad from University of Warwick, UK, the members of the Student Awards and Grants Sub-Committee have visited all online and in-person posters which were presented at InterPore2022. At least three members evaluated each poster based on its content, format and presentation.

The committee has identified two best student poster presentations to win the MDPI Energies Student Poster Award 2022:

• Beibei Gao – University of Virginia, USA with her poster “Retention of Chemotactic Bacteria in Dual-permeability Microfluidics with Residual NAPL”

• Kotone Sakemoto – Hokkaido University, Japan with the poster “Dependence of hydraulic conductivity on effective confining pressure in rocks and concretes”

Both awardees received a prize of €500. Congratulations to both!

This award has been made possible by a generous grant from MDPI Energies.

IEICES 2022

20-21 October 2022, (Hybrid) Kyushu University, Fukuoka City, Japan

The 8th International Exchange and Innovation Conference on Engineering & Sciences (IEICES 2022) brings together academics, researchers and students to share cutting-edge development in the fields of materials, energy and environmental engineering & sciences.

Topics of Interest:

Location: Hybrid conference: Online & Kyushu University, Fukuoka City, Japan
Registration: To guarantee your participation, fill in the IEICES registration form by 15 September. Click here to register.

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