ICMF Senior/Junior Awards

Beginning with the Lyon meeting in 1998, SENIOR and JUNIOR AWARDS have been presented at the International Conference on Multiphase Flows. Starting with ICMF 2019 the awards have been sponsored by the International Journal on Multiphase Flow (IJMF) and Elsevier, and they have been designated “Gad Hetsroni Award” (formerly Senior Award) and “Andrea Prosperetti Award” (formerly Junior Award).

Gad Hetsroni Award

The GAD HETSRONI AWARD recognizes an individual’s significant scientific/technical contributions to the field of multiphase flow research, as well as outstanding leadership in promoting scholarship, research, development and education in this field. At ICMF 2023 a prize of 5000 euros will be awarded, courtesy of IJMF and Elsevier. The award will be presented at the International Conference on Multiphase Flow and will be accompanied by a Plenary Distinguished Lecture from the Award winner.
Past recipients of the Senior Award:

• Thomas Hanratty (Lyon 1998)
• Clayton Crowe (New Orleans 2001)
• Andrea Prosperetti (Yokohama 2004)
• Geoffrey Hewitt (Leipzig 2007)
• Gad Hetsroni (Florida 2010)
• John Eaton (Jeju 2013)
• Said Elghobashi (Florence 2016)
• Sivaramakrishnan Balachandar (Rio de Janeiro 2019)
• Akio Tomiyama (Kobe 2023)

Andrea Prosperetti Award

The ANDREA PROSPERETTI AWARD recognizes significant scientific/technical breakthroughs in the field of multiphase flow research made by a researcher younger than 40 years at the date of the Award presentation. At ICMF 2023 a prize of 2000 euros will be awarded, courtesy of IJMF and Elsevier. The award will be presented at the International Conference on Multiphase Flow and will be accompanied by a Plenary Distinguished Lecture from the Award winner.
Past recipients of the Junior Award:

• Howard Hu (Lyon 1998)
• Not awarded (New Orleans 2001)
• Fumio Takemura (Yokohama 2004)
• Christophe Clanet (Leipzig 2007)
• Neelesh Patankar (Florida 2010)
• Not awarded (Jeju 2013)
• Olivier Desjardins (Florence 2016)
• Yoshiyuki Tagawa (Rio de Janeiro 2019)
• Rui Ni (Kobe 2023)

Awards Committee

Article 13 of the ICMF by-laws entitled « Awards Committee » defines that the Awards Committee shall consist of the senior members on the Governing Board. It is further stated that “The Awards Committee is responsible for soliciting nominations for the senior and junior awards and for selecting the top nominees. The committee shall report the final selections to the entire Governing Board for approval.”
According to custom, the members of the Awards Committee are not eligible for either award, nor do they present nominations.
The current members of the Awards Committee are:

• Dominique Legendre, Institut de Mecanique des Fluides de Toulouse, France
• Chao Sun, Tsinghua University Beijing, China
• Tim Colonius, Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA
• Olivier Desjardins, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
• Saito Yasushi, Kyoto University, Japan
• Oscar M. H. Rodriguez, University of São Paulo, Brazil
• Dirk Lucas (Chair), Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany

Nominations for the Gad Hetsroni Award and the Andrea Prosperetti Award

Nominations should include:

• Type of the award
• Name, address, and e-mail of nominee
• Nomination letter: Rationale for the award with clear mention of the nominee’s contributions that are decisive for the proposal
• Brief Curriculum Vitae (CV) of the nominee
• List of 5 most important publications

The Award Committee will then select the award winners from all nominations that are supported by a total of 3 people from different institutions with their own nomination letters.

Nominations should be submitted by February 28, 2025 to the Awards Committee Chair and the Chair of the Governing Board