Tribute book for Phil Williams
A Tribute book for Phil Williams will be organized. Please send your tribute to Phil preferable with your picture with him to Mui (mui.saranwong@bruker.com or ssaranwong@hotmail.com) by 30 Nov 2025.
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Celebration to the memory of Phil Williams
Melani, his daughter, is organizing a celebration of life so you can contact her if you or anybody in the NIR community want to send her some words about Phil. More information in the attached announcement
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Phil Williams passed away on 1st October 2025
We are deeply saddened to share that Dr. Phil Williams (Canada), an internationally honored pioneer of NIRS technology and member of our ICNIRS Community, passed away on October 1st 2025. Dr. Williams was instrumental in bringing NIRS into industrial use replacing more polluting classical methods. He devoted much of his life to training and mentoring many scientists worldwide, sharing his practical
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ICNIRS has a new woman president
Handover of President of ICNIRS from Soren Balling Engelsen to Dolores (Lola) Perez Marin at the closing of NIR2025.In the same time the Executive, management and advisory committees were renewed.
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Karl Norris Award 2025: the winner is …
The ICNIRS is proud to announce that the Karl Norris Award 2025 will be presented to Prof. Dr. Ana Garrido-Varo (Spain), in recognition of her outstanding lifelong contributions to NIR spectroscopy in education, research, and technology transfer. With a career spanning more than four decades at the Faculty of Agriculture & Forestry Engineering University of
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Tomas Hirschfeld Award 2025: the winner is…
Marena Manley It is with great pleasure that the ICNIRS announces Prof. Marena Manley from South Africa as the recipient of the 2025 Tomas Hirschfeld Award. This year’s award round has been exceptionally competitive, with a remarkable pool of top candidates. The strength of this competition is a great sign for the future of our
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Call for NIR2029 Bidder
The ICNIRS is calling for bidding country to host the International Conference of NIRS in the year of 2029. Bidder must be scientist in the country (not organizer or hotel). Please send your wish to bid to mui.saranwong@bruker.com by 10 May 2025. Bidder must be presented at the ICNIRS General Meeting to give presentation (5-10
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Goodbye Paul Geladi
The ICNIRS regrets to inform you that Prof. Paul Geladi, the convenor of NIR 2007, passed away Saturday May 18th, 2024 in Umea, Sweden, at the age of 72. We will always remember him and his great contributions to the international NIR community. A memorial page has been setup – please visit and share your
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The Karl Norris Award 2023 goes to …
It is a great pleasure to announce that the Karl Norris Award 2023 goes to Professor Harald Martens from Norway. Harald has been instrumental in the development of chemometrics algorithms as a tool for quantitative analysis of NIR spectra. In particular Harald has played a central role in the development of common and omnipresent algorithms
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