The Board of the Nordic Rheology Society

The board of NRS consists of four officers and representatives from each of the Nordic Countries. Please don't hesitate to contact any of the members of the board if you want more information on the Society. The board members are:

President

Olli-Ville Laukkanen

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

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Secretary

Norbert Raak

University of Copenhagen

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Treasurer

Kasra Amini

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

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ICR Representative

Roland Kádár

Chalmers University of Technology

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Danish Representative

Peter Szabo

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

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Danish Deputy Member

Florian Nettesheim

International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF)

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Finnish Representative

Juho Pokki

Aalto University

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Finnish Deputy Member

Mari Niemelä

Tampere University

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Icelandic Representative

Krishna Kumar Damodaran

University of Iceland

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Icelandic Deputy Member

Margrét Geirsdóttir

Matís

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Norwegian Representative

Catherine Taylor Nordgård

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

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Norwegian Deputy Member

Blandine Feneuil

SINTEF

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Swedish Representative

Gustaf Mårtensson

Mycronic / KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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Swedish Deputy Member

Dragana Arlov

Tetra Pak

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Editor of the NRS Annual Transactions

Andrianifaliana Herimonja Rabenjafimanantsoa

University of Stavanger

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Call for Nominations - NRS Rheology Awards 2026
The Nordic Rheology Society invites nominations for the NRS Rheology Awards 2026, which will be announced at the 35th Nordic Rheology Conference in Lund, Sweden.
  • The Carl Klason Rheology Award is given to a senior researcher, who has made outstanding contributions to rheology and is or was active in the Nordic countries
  • The Young Rheologist Award is given to an early-career researcher, who has conducted outstanding work on the graduate and postgraduate level at a research institution in the Nordic countries

  • A letter describing the nominee and the motivation for the nomination may be submitted by all members of the Nordic Rheology Society to the NRS President Olli-Ville Laukkanen or to nrs@nordicrheologysociety.org. The awardees will be selected by the NRS Award Committee, consisting of Annika Sahlström, Kurt Ingar Draget, Ole Hassager and Jón Elvar Wallevik.

    The deadline for nominations is 15 January 2026.

    If you have suitable nominees in mind, we encourage you to submit a nomination.

    In 2025, the awards were given to Prof. Mats Stading (RISE) and Julie Frost Dahl (Aarhus University).

    More information can be found at https://nordicrheologysociety.org/Home/Awards.
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