The 2024 recipient of the FORTH/ICE-HT “Stratis Sotirchos Lectureship Award” is Professor Ryan P. Lively, Thomas C. DeLoach Jr. Endowed Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA & Director of Center for Understanding and Control of Acid Gas-Induced Evolution of Materials for Energy (UNCAGE-ME), an Energy Frontier Research Center of the US Department of Energy. Prof. Lively received his award by Dr. Theophilos Ioannides, Director of FORTH/ICE-HT, on Wednesday, 29 May 2024 in a special ceremony during the 14^th Panhellenic Chemical Engineering Conference and presented the award lecture titled “Membrane technologies are key enablers of the energy transition”.

FORTH/ICE-HT created the “Stratis V. Sotirchos Award” to honor the memory of one of its most distinguished Researchers, Professor Stratis V. Sotirchos, FORTH/ICE-HT Research Director. The awardee, younger than 40 years of age, is selected by a committee of internationally renowned scientists, on grounds of having produced original and fundamentally important results in chemical engineering sciences.