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

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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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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  HIGHLIGHTS
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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