“Michael L. Michelsen” Award
The “Michael L. Michelsen” Award (previously called "Distinguished Lecture on Thermodynamics and Transport Properties", renamed in Feb. 2021) aims to honour a senior member of the community that is active in a European institution. The award is presented every two years by the EFCE Working Party on Thermodynamics and Transport Properties.
Call for nominations
The call for nominations for the 2026 "Michael L. Michelsen" Award is open.
Deadline for nominations: 16 February 2026
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The 2026 "Michael L. Michelsen" Award will be presented at the 34th EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS - ESAT 2026
which will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on 10-13 May 2026.
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Lecturers
2024:
Professor Jean-Noël Jaubert, France
has been named the laureate of the 2024 EFCE Michael L. Michelsen Award.
Jean-Noël Jaubert is a pioneer of applied thermodynamics and professor of chemical engineering and thermodynamics at the École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques (ENSIC), an elite school of chemical engineering at the University of Lorraine.
> EFCE Press Release
The 2022/2024 Michael L. Michelsen Awardee was supported by Elsevier and its journal Fluid Phase Equilibria.
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