The European Society of Rheology is open for everyone interested in rheology in all countries of Europe. Rheology is defined as the science of the deformation and flow of matter which means that rheology in some form enters almost every study of material properties. The ESR involves rheologists engaged in both industrial and academic research and development and is therefore a common meeting ground for engineers, physicists, chemists and biologists with a common interest in rheology
Michel’s research focuses on the relation between the dynamic microstructure and rheological properties of soft matter systems. He is particularly known for the advances he made on understanding the effect of flow on the structure and macroscopic behavior of colloidal glasses, pastes and emulsions, physical gels, binary associative polymers, and various polymers with complex architectures. Important applications studied in collaboration with industrial partners include liquid‐liquid encapsulation, enhanced oil recovery and the development of hydrocolloids for water‐borne formulations. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on soft matter, molecular rheology, and material design. Michel was a coauthor of papers that have won the 2005 and 2014 SOR Publication Awards and the 2019 Rheologica Acta Publication Award. He also received the Maurice Couette Prize from the French Society of Rheology in 2010.
Michel is an active member in the rheology community. In 2015, he chaired the 10th Annual European Rheology Conference held in Nantes. As a member of the European Society of Rheology since 2013, he has served as the Secretary of the Society (2016‐2019). Michel has also been a member of the Society of Rheology since 2005, attending all annual meetings, and contributing as a Member at Large (2017‐2019). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Rheology.
Award Citation: For developing a fundamental understanding of the rheology, wall‐slip, aging and flow of concentrated suspensions of soft particles.
According to the Constitution of the ESR, member may propose candidates for the Vice-President and the Members-at-Large, which have to be elected this April. The elected officers will serve for the period of 2021 - 2023. The timeline for the election of the Vice-President and the Members-at-Large is as follows:
The ESR committee asks all individual members of the ESR to propose candidates for the Vice-President and the Members-at-Large.
All nominations must be sent to the Election Committee at election-committee@rheology-esr.org.
Welcome to the Annual European Rheology Conference (AERC 2021) in Cyberspace during April 13-15, 2021. The short course on 'Colloidal suspensions with focus on colloidal gels and applications' will be held on April 11-12, 2021. More information can be found on the conference web-site. Please also visit our youtube trailers.
AERC 2021 Trailer 3 - Tour of the venue
AERC 2021 Trailer 2 - Step into a virtual world
The Annual European Rheology Conference that was planned to be held in Sevilla/Spain is shifted to 2022. For more information, please visit the AERC 2022 site.
Michel Cloitre is a Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France. After earning an engineer diploma in physics and chemistry from ESPCI, he received a Masters in Statistical Physics and a PhD from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris (1989). He then joined Orsay University to establish a group working on the fluid dynamics of complex fluids (1991). After a few years, he moved to a joint research unit between CNRS and the chemical company ATOCHEM, now Arkema (1996‐2003). This was a challenging and very influential experience in his career. Afterwards he joined the Soft Matter and Chemistry laboratory at ESPCI. In 2019, he became the Director of the Molecular, Macromolecular Chemistry and Materials laboratory where he pursues his research.
Michel’s research focuses on the relation between the dynamic
microstructure and rheological properties of soft matter systems. He is
particularly known for the advances he made on understanding the effect
of flow on the structure and macroscopic behavior of colloidal glasses,
pastes and emulsions, physical gels, binary associative polymers, and
various polymers with complex architectures. Important applications
studied in collaboration with industrial partners include liquid‐liquid
encapsulation, enhanced oil recovery and the development of
hydrocolloids for water‐borne formulations. He teaches undergraduate and
graduate courses on soft matter, molecular rheology, and material
design. Michel was a coauthor of papers that have won the 2005 and 2014
SOR Publication Awards and the 2019 Rheologica Acta Publication Award.
He also received the Maurice Couette Prize from the French Society of
Rheology in 2010.
Michel is an active member in the rheology community. In 2015, he chaired the 10th Annual European Rheology Conference held in Nantes. As a member of the European Society of Rheology since 2013, he has served as the Secretary of the Society (2016‐2019). Michel has also been a member of the Society of Rheology since 2005, attending all annual meetings, and contributing as a Member at Large (2017‐2019). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Rheology.
Award Citation: For developing a fundamental understanding of the rheology, wall‐slip, aging and flow of concentrated suspensions of soft particles.
Access to Rheologica Acta and Applied Rheology is free for all individual members of the ESR. Please access Rheologica Acta and Applied Rheology via the 'Member area'.
All participants of AERC 2019 (Portoroz) are automatically individual members of the ESR until April 2021.
At every AERC or ICR, the editors of Rheologica Acta present the publication award sponsored by Anton Paar. This award gets selected by three editorial board members based on a preselection by the editors and is aimed to highlight the type of work which the journal likes to see published.
The 2020 Rheologica Acta Publication Award was given to:
Roger Tanner, Christopher Ness, Arif Mahmud, Shaocong Dai, Jiyoung Moon: A bootstrap mechanism for non-colloidal suspension viscosity, Rheologica Acta 57 (2018) 635-643.
The entire list of the Rheologica Acta Publication Awards and the Weissenberg Lecture papers can be found in the archive.
The project aims at in-situ studies of the formation of protein domains and their alignment that determines the mechanical properties of meat analogues. A combination of rheology, small angle X-ray and neutron scattering experiments will be used to study the plastification and alignment of protein aggregates under process conditions. The PhD is a collaboration of ILL (Grenoble), ETH Zurich and Planted Foods.
YIELDGAP is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovation Training Network (ITN), funded by the European Commission, Horizon 2020 Program. Commencing its activities in January 2021, the Network will provide PhD training to 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs). This will be a great opportunity for you to focus on your own PhD project and at the same time cooperate with 14 other PhD students in a program including eight universities and six companies interested in advanced rheology.
Posdoc position on soft matter in Grenoble on the rheology of droplets and suspensions
The Soft Matter & Photonics Group at the Physics Department of the University of Fribourg / Switzerland has an opening for a Postdoctoral Fellow to study shear induced solid / fluid transitions in soft jammed materials.
A full-time post-doctoral researcher position is immediately available in the group of Prof. Vivek Sharma at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
20.11.2020
The 2020 Society of Rheology Fellows are Lynden Archer, Surita Bhatia, William Hartt, Savvas Hatzikiriakos, Saad Khan, and Gregory B. McKenna.
20.11.2020
The 2020 Rheology price of the German Rheology Society (DRG) was given to Volker Räntzsch from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
20.07.2020
The Australian Society of Rheology (ASR) is proud to award the ASR Medallion this year to Prof. Ravi Prakash Jagadeeshan in recognition of his outstanding and meritorious contributions to rheology and for his many years of distinguished service to the Society and the rheology community in Australia
16.05.2020
The Editors of the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, Ian Frigaard and Rob Poole are launching the “JNNFM Complex Fluids Seminar Series”
16.05.2020
The 2020 Journal of Rheology Publication Award is given to Abhinendra Singh, Romain Mari, Morton M. Denn and Jeffrey F. Morris.
January 18 - 19, 2021
The theme of the meeting is "Recent advances in non-conventional rheometry”, and we have keynote presentations by Gerry Fuller (Stanford University), Monica Oliveira (University of Strathclyde) and Charles Schroeder (University of Illinois). The registration deadline is January 11 at 12 pm GMT.
February 23-26, 2021
International Rheology Symposium as a session in the 21st International Union of Materials Research Societies International Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA; supported by Materials Research Society of Thailand) held at the Empress Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand, in February 23-26, 2021.
June 13 - 17, 2021
The forthcoming conference “Times of Polymers (TOP) and Composites” will be held at Ischia (Naples)/Italy and is organized by Italian groups on Polymer Science and Composites.
July 6 - 9, 2021
The French Group of rheology GFR was founded in 1964 and represents more than 250 rheologists from more than 20 Universities, and 30 professionals from our major industries, actively engaged with a common interest in rheology. The GFR is a member of the International Committee of Rheology (ICR) and the European Society of Rheology (ESR). The group organizes a “National Congress” each year, two annual workshops linking academia and industry and the “Young Rheologists Days”, mainly devoted to Phd students, Post-doctoral and young researchers, every two years.
August 1 - 6, 2021
The next Pacific Rim Conference on Rheology (PRCR2021) will be held in Vancouver, Canada during August 1-6, 2021. More information will follow later.
Rheometric Scientific RFX extensional rheometer. For details please contact peter.fischer@hest.ethz.ch
A combination of a 5T magnet (Cryogenic, 2005) with wide bore with Bohlin CS50 rheometer head (1993) for sale.
Two Anton Paar MCR300 (2000, 2001) with damaged air bearing or motor shaft are for sale as spare part donator.