Nordic Rheology Awards

NRS may present two awards a year and all members of NRS are encouraged to propose nominees. The Carl Klason Rheology Award and the Young Rheologists Rheology Award are given to persons active in the Nordic countries.

The Carl Klason Rheology Award amounting to 1000 Euro may be given to a person who either

  • has made outstanding contributions to the basic understanding of rheological phenomena or to the application of rheology, or
  • has made outstanding contributions to the progress of rheology in one or more of the Nordic countries.

The Young Rheologists Rheology Award with 500 Euro may be given to a young person who has made outstanding work in basic or applied rheology at the graduate or postgraduate level.

The awardees are selected from the nominations by the Award Committee which consists of Annika Sahlström, Kurt Ingar Draget, Ole Hassager and Jón Elvar Wallevik. A letter describing the nominee and a motivation can be sent to the NRS president before January 15 every year or when separately announced.

 

 

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NRS Young Rheologist Awardee 2026: Ases Akas Mishra
It is our pleasure to announce Ases Akas Mishra as the recipient of the 2026 NRS Young Rheologist Award. The announcement was made yesterday by the NRS President Olli-Ville Laukkanen after Ases's doctoral defense at Chalmers University of Technology.

Ases has been unusually productive during his graduate studies, reflecting his capacity to combine independent research initiatives with collaborative work. His research spans experimental, constitutive, and numerical rheology, as well as work at large-scale research facilities, notably at the MAX IV synchrotron facility. Throughout his PhD, his work has led to fundamental contributions to rheology, while also having a clear impact on industrial research, particularly through the company-linked part of his project focused on food processing. Ases's doctoral thesis can be found here: Advancing Experimental, Modeling and Neural Network Techniques for Thixotropic Yield Stress Flows.

Ases is invited to give an award lecture at the Nordic Rheology Conference & Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials Conference 2026 in Lund in August.

Warm congratulations to Ases for the well-deserved award! 👏
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