Prof. Rainer Helmig received Magne Espedal Honory Professorship

A great honour for the University of Stuttgart: Prof. Rainer Helmig from the Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems and internationally recognized researcher in the field of porous media has received the Magne Espedal Honorary Professorship - a recognition for his work that has had a lasting influence on porous-media research. The aim of the honorary professorship is to intensify the cooperation between the porous-media community and the field of applied mathematics. "The University of Stuttgart has been running joint projects and co-supervising dissertations with the University of Bergen, and especially with Magne Espedal, for more than 20 years. It is a great honour and pleasure to have the opportunity of intensifying our international cooperation", says Prof. Rainer Helmig. This plays an important role in the context of the research within the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1313: "Interface-Driven Multi-Field Processes in Porous Media. Flow, Transport and Deformation", of which Rainer Helmig is the spokesman. "We hope that this close cooperation will result in important and far-reaching findings that will advance research into porous media and bring the porous-media community closer together." Prof. Jan M. Nordbotten (University of Bergen, Norge), one of the initiators of the honorary professorship and long-standing research partner of the University of Stuttgart, is pleased to have Rainer Helmig in the team: "We are very grateful for the opportunity to establish an honorary professorship in memory of Magne Espedal, and for having Rainer with us on our team.