Euromech

Regulations and Call for Prize Nominations

EUROMECH, the European Mechanics Society, awards prizes in four categories: The Fluid Mechanics General Prize, the Solid Mechanics General Prize, the Fluid Mechanics Mid-Career Prize and the Solid Mechanics Mid-Career Prize. All prizes are handed out at EUROMECH Fluid and Solid conferences.

The Fluid Mechanics General Prize and the Solid Mechanics General Prize of EUROMECH, are awarded for outstanding and fundamental research accomplishments in Mechanics. There are no restrictions for eligibility for the general prizes. Each general prize consists of €5000.

The Fluid Mechanics Mid-Career Prize and the Solid Mechanics Mid-Career Prize of EUROMECH are awarded for outstanding and inspiring research achievements in Mechanics. Eligible candidates are those who have completed their PhD 10–20 years ago, with allowances for demonstrated career breaks. The start and end of the 10-20-year period are respectively defined by the year of the PhD defense and the end of the calendar year in which the nomination is made. Each mid-career prize is worth €3000.

All prize recipients are invited to deliver a Prize Lecture at the appropriate EUROMECH Conference: European Fluid Dynamics Conference (EFDC) or European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC).

Nomination Guidelines

A nomination may be submitted by any member of the EUROMECH Society, hereafter called the nominator. Eligible candidates should have undertaken a significant proportion of their scientific career in Europe. Self-nominations cannot be accepted.

We strongly encourage nominations of researchers representing the diversity of our scientific community (in terms of gender, geography, topic, etc.).

The nomination documents should include the following items:

  • a presentation letter from the nominator summarizing the contributions and achievements of the nominee in support of his/her nomination for the Prize;
  • a curriculum vitae of the nominee;
  • a selection of the nominee's most significant publications (20 publications maximum);
  • two letters of support in addition to the presentation by the nominator;
  • a suggested citation to appear on the Prize Certificate (30 words maximum);
  • a supporting paragraph enlarging on the citation, indicating the originality and significance of the contributions cited (limit 250 words).

All documents should be written (or translated) in English.

NOMINATION PROCESS

The Prize winners are selected the year before the respective EFDC and ESMC. Nomination packages need to be sent as electronic files to the Chair of the Prize Committee with a copy to the President and to the Secretary General of EUROMECH before 30 September of year N-1, if N is the year of the EFDC or ESMC. Nominations remain active for two selection campaigns. Nominations are reviewed before the end of December by the relevant EUROMECH Prize Committee and a recipient is selected from the nominations. The final decision is made by the EUROMECH Council.

ETHICS

Members of the EUROMECH Council and of the Prize committees are not eligible for EUROMECH awards and cannot act as nominators. The nominators or support letter writers should disclose the nature of their professional relationship with the nominee. 

Prize Committees

For each prize, a Prize and Fellowship Committee, with a Chair and five additional members is appointed by the EUROMECH Council for a period of two rounds, that is four years for the Fluid Mechanics Fellowships and six years for the Solids Mechanics Fellowship. The Chair and the five additional members may be re-appointed once

The members of the Fluid Mechanics Prize and Fellow Committee are:

  • Alessandro Bottaro (Chair)
  • Jens H. M. Fransson
  • Carlos Martinez-Bazan
  • Fernando Tavares de Pinho
  • Christian Wagner
  • Sarah Waters

The members of the Solid Mechanics Prize and Fellow Committee are: 

  • Anna Pandolfi (Chair)
  • Julie Diani
  • Tamas Insperger
  • Christian Niordson
  • Ron Peerlings
  • Paul Steinmann

Chairperson's Addresses

Prof. Alessandro Bottaro
Università di Genova
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Chimica e Ambientale
Via Montallegro 1
16145 Genova
Italy
Email: alessandro.bottaro@unige.it

Prof. Anna Pandolfi
(Chair, Solids)
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale
Politecnico di Milano
Piazza L. Da Vinci, 32
20133, Milan
Italy
Email: anna.pandolfi@polimi.it

Prof. Roberto Verzicco (President)
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica
Università di Roma Tor Vergata
Via del Politecnico, 1
00133 Roma
Italy
E-Mail: roberto.verzicco@uniroma2.it

Prof. Samuel Forest (Secretary General)
Centre des Materiaux
Mines Paris PSL Armines
63-65 rue Desbruères
F-91100 Corbeil-Essonnes
France
E-Mail: samuel.forest@minesparis.psl.eu