Excellence Awards / Young Researcher Awards
The EFCE has established a series of Excellence Awards to recognise PhD theses or publications of young researchers published in preceding years which demonstrate the most outstanding contribution to research and/or practice in the scientific fields of the EFCE Working Parties and Sections.
- The call for nominations for the Carl Wagner Medal of Excellence in Electrochemical Engineering 2023 is closed. The next call is planned to be opened in mid-2025 for presentation in 2026.
- The 2023 Medal was presented to Dr. Davide Clematis at the 13th European Symposium on Electrochemical Engineering 2023, held in Toulouse, France, on 26-29 June 2023.
Sponsor: thyssenkrupp nucera
GENERAL INFORMATION and CALL for NOMINATIONS
- The call for nominations for the 2024 Excellence Award in Recognition of an Outstanding PhD Thesis on CAPE is closed. The next call will open in mid-2025 for presentation in 2026.
- The 2024 Excellence Award was presented to Dr. Francesco Destro at ESCAPE34-PSE24 in Florence, Italy, in June 2024.
Sponsor: AVEVA Software LLC.
- Call for nominations for the next Excellence Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering to be confirmed
- The 2018 Excellence Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering was presented at the International Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering - ISCRE 2018, in Florence, Italy, in May 2018.
Sponsor: BP International Limited
- The call for nominations for the 2024 Excellence Award in Comminution and Classification is closed. No award presentation in 2024
- The call for nominations for the 2023 Excellence Award in Crystallization is closed.
The next call is planned to be opened in mid-2025 for presentation in 2026.
- The 2023 Excellence Award in Crystallization was presented to Dr. Francesca Breveglieri during the 22nd International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization (ISIC 2023) which was held in Glasgow, United Kingdom, on 5-8 September 2023.
- Call for nominations for the next Excellence Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering to be confirmed
- The 2019 Excellence Award in Drying and Freeze-Drying was presented at the 7th European Drying Conference to be held in Torino, Italy, in 2019.
Sponsor: Criofarma s.a.s
GENERAL INFORMATION and CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
- The call for nominations for the 2022 Excellence Award in Fluid Separations is closed.
The next call is planned to be opened in early-2025 for presentation in 2026.
- The 2022 Award was presented to Dr. Vineet Vishwakarma at the 12th International Conference on Distillation & Absorption - DA2022 held in Toulouse, France on 4-8 September 2022.
Sponsor: Evonik
- The call for nominations for the 2025 Excellence Award in Mechanics of Particulate Solids is closed.
Sponsor: Jenike & Johanson, Inc
The Award is planed to be presented at Partec 2025 in Nuremberg, Germany, 23-25 September 2025.
- The 2022 Excellence Award in Mechanics of Particulate Solids was presented to at the 9th World Congress of Particle Technology - WCPT9 held in Madrid, Spain on 18-22 September 2022.
Sponsor: Jenike & Johanson Inc.
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The call for nominations for the 2024 EFCE-EMS Joint Excellence Award in Membrane Engineering is closed.
- The 2024 EFCE-EMS Joint Excellence Award in Membrane Engineeringwas presented to the Dr. Zhiwei Jiang during a Special Session of EuroMembrane 2024, which was held in Prague, Czech Republic, on 8-12 September 2024.
- The call for nominations for the 2025 Excellence Award in Process Intensification planned to open in Autumn.
- The award was presented to Dr. Matteo Antognoli on 31 May 2023 at the opening ceremony of the 8th European Process Intensification Conference -EPIC 8, held in Warsaw Poland on 31 May - 2 June 2023.
Sponsor: Microinnova Engineering GmbH
GENERAL INFORMATION and CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
- The call for nominations for the 2025 Excellence Award in Process Safety is closed.
Sponsor: European Process Safety Centre IVZW (EPSC)
The Award will be presented at Loss Prevention 2025 held in Bologna, Italy, on 8-11 June 2025.
- The 2022 Excellence Award in Process Safety was presented at the Loss Prevention Symposium 2022.
Sponsor: Aspen Oss B.V.
- The call for nominations for the 2021 Excellence Award in Produc Design and Engineering is closed.
- The 2021 Excellence Award in Product Design and Engineering was presented at ECCE13&ECAB6.
Sponsor: Beiersdorf AG
- The call for nominations for the 2025 Excellence Award in Thermodynamics and Transport Properties is closed.
- Sponsor: IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN)
The Award will be presented at the International Conference on Properties and Phase Equilibria for Product and Process Design – PPEPPD 2025 which will be held in Munich, Germany, on 11-15 May 2025.
- The EFCE Excellence Award in Thermodynamics and Transport Properties 2023 was presented to Dr. Andrés Pina-Martinez at the International Conference on Properties and Phase Equilibria for Product and Process Design – PPEPPD 2023 which took place in Tarragona, Spain, on 21-25 May 2023.
Sponsor: Bayer AG
- The call for nominations for the 2023 Young Researcher Award in Mixing is closed.
- The 2023 Young Researcher Award in Mixing was presented to Dr. Margarida Brito at the
17th European Conference on Mixing in Porto, Portugal, in July 2023.
Sponsor: EKATO