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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