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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

Roger Meder It is a pleasure to announce that the Tomas Hirschfeld Awardee 2023 is Roger Meder from Australia. This award round was very competitive , which is very good news for our scientific community. This year, the THA has been co-funded by SI-ware and the ICNIRS. The award will be presented during the NIR2023

The 23rd edition of the course entitled “Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS): Applications in Quality Control and Traceability of Agri-Food Products and Processes”, was held at the University of Cordoba (Spain), February 13th-16th, 2023. The course was designed for pre and post graduate students, scientists, and professionals with different backgrounds (analytical chemistry, soils science, animal nutrition,

The ICNIRS is now inviting nominations for the 2023 Karl Norris Award (KNA). The KNA honours the unique contribution of Karl Norris as the internationally recognised founder of modern near-infrared spectroscopy. The award is made in recognition of a major contribution to the science of near infrared spectroscopy, including research and development of new technology.

The Council may provide a maximum of two Emeritus Grants, to assist eligible senior scientists, who have retired from full-time paid employment, to attend the NIR-2023 Conference and act as mentors to young scientists, providing research advice in a designated and closed conference session. Applications must be sent by e-mail to Treasure, Dr. Peter Tillman

The ICNIRS offers travel awards for student delegates to participate in the council’s international conference in 2023. Funding for the NIR-2023 conference in Austria is possible because of the donation of profits from the organizers of the NIR-2019 conference in Australia and the NIR-2021 conference in China. The ICNIRS will look most favorably on student

From October 17 to 21, 2022, the Knowledge and valorisation of agricultural products Department of the CRA-W organised its 14th annual training on vibrational spectroscopy and chemometrics. The aim of this annual training is to give an overview of the theoretical and practical issues of both areas for their right application in different working areas

Congratulations Dr. Wouter Saeys from the KU Leuven, Belgium, as the winner of the Tomas Hirschfeld Award (THA) 2022. This award, sponsored by PerkinElmer (USA), is made in recognition of a significant innovative and/or scientific contribution to near infrared spectroscopy. It awarded on the basis of excellence in research conducted by a scientist of international

I would like to express my personal sincere thanks to all the NIRS community for the trust and confidence that they have placed in me to be the new President-elect of the International Council of NIRS (ICNIRS). I must say this is a great honour and a big responsibility. I hope I could contribute to

The award ceremony was taken place in Belgium but was broadcast online at the ICNIRS2021 organized by the China team. Pierre Dardenne (President of ICNIRS 2009-2013) (Right) and Stef D’Espallier, regional sales manager of FOSS Benelux (Left) as the sponsor of the award, presented the award to Vincent Baeten (Middle). More information on website