Ilya Prigogine Prize in Thermodynamics 2021
The Ilya Prigogine Prize is endowed with an amount of 2000 Euros in addition to a diploma. The prize honours Ph.D. dissertations/theses accomplished by young researchers, defended or published between January 2019 and January 2021. All aspects and branches of thermodynamics are considered, from applied and experimental to the most theoretical.More details can be found here. This year the prize is sponsored by RSJ.
In 2021 the Prigogine Prize was awarded to Simon Stephan, congratulations!
Historical:
This prize was patronized by the Nobel Prize laureate Ilya Prigogine personally while he was alive. Every two years, it is bestowed on a promising young researcher in thermodynamics for his/her Ph.D. dissertation/thesis. Its calendar is linked to that of the Joint European Thermodynamics Conference (JETC). The former winners of the prize are listed below.
Selection:
The applications will be examined by a selection committee of about ten scientists from different European countries. They will act as experts themselves and/or will choose the best experts in the domains concerned. The composition of the selection committee will be made public.
Conferral of the 2021 Prize:
The prize will be conferred solemnly during the JETC 2021 Prigogine Prize ceremony. The recipient will on this occasion give an oral presentation of his/her work. The candidates will be informed of the results by the end of April 2021.
The application documents, which are to be found here, should be submitted as pdf or word files via email to gianpaolo.beretta@unibs.it:
Deadline: February 1, 2021
Evaluation Committee:- Bjarne Andresen (Denmark)
- Gian-Paolo Beretta (Italy)
- Jakob De Swaan Arons (The Netherlands)
- Pierre Gaspard (Belgium)
- Karl Heinz Hoffmann (Germany)
- Christopher Jarzynski (USA)
- Signe Kjelstrup (Norway)
- Miguel Rubi (Spain)
- Doros Theodorou (Greece)
- Daniel Tondeur (France)
Former winners:
2019 – Nicole Yunger Halpern
Quantum steampunk: Quantum information, thermodynamics, their intersection, and applications thereof across physics
2017 – Øivind Wilhelmsen
Equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermodynamics of planar and curved interfaces
2015 – Ronan Killian McGovern (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
The economics of future membrane desalination processes and applications
2013 – Anders Lervik (Chemistry Department, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)
Energy dissipation in biomolecular machines
2011 – Kirill Glavatskiy (Chemistry Department, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)
Multicomponent interfacial transport as described by the square gradient model
2009 – David Andrieux (Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Nonequilibrium statistical thermodynamics at the nanoscale
2007 – Stefano Mazzoni (Physics Department, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Pattern formation in convective instabilities in a colloidal suspension
2005 – Benoît Scheid (Departement de Physique des Fluides, Faculté des Sciences Appliquées, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Evolution and stability of falling liquid films with thermocapillary effects
2003 – David Reguera (Facultat de Fisica, Departament de Fisica Fondamental, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
Mesosocopic nonequilibrium kinetics of nucleation processes
2001 – Emmanuel Bertrand (Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France)
Transition de mouillage des alcanes sur l’eau: rôle des interactions entre interfaces