PRESIDENT
Professor Patrick Huerre
huerre@ladhyx.polytechnique.fr

SECRETARY GENERAL
Professor Bernhard A. Schrefler
CISM International Centre
for Mechanical Sciences
Palazzo del Torso
Piazza Garibaldi 18 - 33100 Udine
bas@dic.unipd.it

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Regulations and Call for Prize Nominations

The Fluid Mechanics Prize and the Solid Mechanics Prize of EUROMECH, the European Mechanics Society, shall be awarded on the occasions of Fluid and Solid conferences for outstanding and fundamental research accomplishments in Mechanics.

Each prize consists of 5000 Euros. The recipient is invited to give a Prize Lecture at one of the European Fluid or Solid Mechanics Conferences.

Nomination Guidelines


A nomination may be submitted by any member of the Mechanics community. Eligible candidates should have undertaken a significant proportion of their scientific career in Europe. Self-nominations cannot be accepted.

The nomination documents should include the following items:
  • a presentation letter summarizing the contributions and achievements of the nominee in support of his/her nomination for the Prize,
  • a curriculum vitae of the nominee,
  • a list of the nominee's publications,
  • at least two letters of recommendation.

Five copies of the complete nomination package should be sent to the Chair of the appropriate Prize Committee, as announced in the EUROMECH Newsletter and on the Society's Web site www.euromech.org Nominations will remain active for two selection campaigns.

Prize committees


For each prize, a Prize Committee, with a Chair and four additional members shall be appointed by the EUROMECH Council for a period of three years. The Chair and the four additional members may be re-appointed once. The committee shall select a recipient from the nominations. The final decision is made by the EUROMECH Council.

Nomination Deadline for the Fluid Mechanics Prize: 15 January in the year of the Solid Mechanics Prize.


The members of the Fluid Mechanics Prize Committee are:
  • A. Kluwick (Chair)
  • O. E. Jensen
  • D. Lohse
  • P. Monkewitz
  • W.Schröder
Nomination Deadline for the Solid Mechanics Prize: 15 January in the year of the Fluid Mechanics Prize.

The members of the Solid Mechanics Prize Committee are: 
  • W.Schiehlen (Chair)
  • H. Myhre Jensen
  • N.F. Morozov
  • M. Raous
  • B. A. Schrefler

Chairmen's Addresses


Professor A. Kluwick (Chair, Fluids)
Institut für Strömungsmechanik und Wärmeübertragung
Technische Universität Wien
Resselgasse 3,
A -1040 Wien, Austria
Tel. : +43 1 58801 32220
Fax : +43 1 58801 32299
E-mail: akluwick@mail.tuwien.ac.at


Professor W. Schiehlen (Chair, Solids)
Institute of Engineering and Computational Mechanics
University of Stuttgart
Pfaffenwaldring 9
D-70550 Stuttgart, Germany
Phone: +49 711 685-66391
Fax :+49 711 685-66400
E-mail : schiehlen@itm.uni-stuttgart.de

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