New releases

It was with great pride that today, December 17th, was made public by the SPM Board of Directors the SPM Career and Recognition Award 2021 to Professor Rodrigo Martins, prestigious professor and researcher of international level.

Full Professor at FCT/UNL, he is Director of CEMOP-Centre of Excellence in Microelectronics, Optoelectronics and Processes; President of the European Academy of Sciences – EurASc; President of the International Union of Materials Research Societies – IUMRS; and member of the ERC Scientific Council-European Research Council.

The Prize will be awarded in a ceremony to be held during MATERIALS 2022 (Marinha Grande, 10-13 April).

Dr. Ravi Kumar was chosen for the Humboldt Research Award, granted annually by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to no more than 100 internationally leading researchers of all disciplines outside of Germany in recognition of their academic record.

Link: https://news.ua.edu/2021/12/ua-professor-honored-with-prestigious-international-research-award/

Prof. Reinhard Winkler (1964-2021): An obituary

The Vienna University of Technology, the Faculty of Mathematics and Geoinformation and the Institute for Discrete Mathematics and Geometry mourn the death of Prof. Reinhard Winkler.

Link: https://www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktuelles/news/news/prof-reinhard-winkler-1964-2021-ein-nachruf

Royal Society Publishing has recently published a special issue of Interface Focus entitled Coronavirus and surfaces organised by Mohan Edirisinghe. The articles can be accessed directly at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsfs/2022/12/1 There is also a blog post at https://royalsociety.org/blog/2021/12/coronavirus-and-surfaces/

Prof. Benoit Perthame, Head of the Mathematics Division of EurASc has been elected member of the French Academy of Sciences on December 2017. We warmly congratulate him. 

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International Innovation is not a peer-reviewed journal; instead it offers a unique forum for communication and dissemination of research. They have interviewed Prof. Claude Debru, President of the European Academy of Sciences about its history and activities. 

Abstract: “EURASC is made up of distinguished scholars and engineers committed to promoting fundamental and applied science and technology for the purpose of fostering social and economic development. President Claude Debru ruminates on the Academy’s history and discusses the ways it recognises excellence in science […]”

 To see the complete article, you can download it in PDF here.

 Click on this link to go to the website of the International Innovation.