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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

Prof Yukihiro Ozaki received the Karl Norris Medal during the Online ICNIRS2021 Conference. The ceremony was taken place at Nagoya University where Prof Satoru Tsuchikawa, ICNIRS Council Management Committee (CMC) handed over the medal, flowers and took picture together with his team .

Karl Norris passed away on 17 July 2019, aged 98. The World of Near-infrared Spectroscopy will never be quite the same as when he was with us. A number of his colleagues have sent their personal memories of him, and their comments are posted, in alphabetical order, in the form of a commemorative folder, on