11/11/2020

Brazil receives Interpore award for scientific activities.

Márcio Murad (LNCC), Alexei Mailybaev (IMPA), o diretor do LNCC Augusto Gadelha e Eduardo Abreu (IMECC/UNICAMP) no congresso brasileiro da Interpore realizado em 2019, no LNCC/ Divulgação

The Brazilian committee of Interpore, an international scientific organization that unites researchers and industries in the field of porous media systems, won the InterPore National Chapter Award . The award was granted to the country for scientific activities in the field developed in Brazil in recent years, including the special meeting during the 32nd Brazilian Mathematics Colloquium in 2019 at IMPA. The Brazilian researchers who are part of the award-winning Chapter will receive free registration for InterPore2021, a meeting scheduled for May 2021 in Scotland.

Alexei Mailybaev, a researcher at the institute and the first president of the Brazilian Interpore committee, celebrated the achievement. “This is excellent news. The committee is six years old, but it’s relatively new. At last year’s Interpore congress, held at the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC) in Petrópolis, the number of participants doubled, reaching almost 150 people.”

The congress that inaugurated the Brazilian committee at Interpore was held in 2014 at IMPA. Two years later, the institute hosted another meeting of the group . “These are important events that create a link between science and industry. Among the participants are scientists who have been working on industrial projects for some time, researchers who want to join this type of project, and representatives who bring real problems from companies,” commented Mailybaev.

The current president of the Brazilian group, researcher Eduardo Abreu, from the Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing (IMECC) at Unicamp, has participated in the committee since its foundation. In addition to having completed a postdoctoral fellowship at IMPA in 2007, he spent three years as a visiting researcher at the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) in the Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, coordinated by Dan Marchesin .

“The award is the result of a series of activities. Since 2014, we have been developing Interpore in Brazil with mathematical foundations. We have this partnership between IMPA and Unicamp to value not only the application in porous media, but also the mathematics of the process. I am very proud. Last year, we managed to bring Majid Hassanizadeh, one of the founders of Interpore, to the international conference at LNCC,” comments Abreu.

The president of the committee in Brazil states that the impact of the recognition is significant in the scientific community. “We are developing our activities alongside 15 other important countries that are part of the organization. We have managed to stand out in porous environments within the international community. It is a sign that the country is beginning to consolidate itself in this area.”

Check out the opening video of the Interpore congress in 2019 at LNCC: