Erwin Hahn Lecturer Awardees

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2025 (Würzburg)

Lynn Gladden
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Lynn Gladden is Professor of Chemical Engineering, in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. She studied chemical physics at the University of Bristol before moving to the Department of Physical Chemistry at Cambridge to do her PhD on ‘Structural Studies of Inorganic Glasses’ which introduced her to neutron and X-ray scattering, and solid-state NMR. She then moved to a faculty position in the Department of Chemical Engineering in Cambridge where she established a research group focussed on applying magnetic resonance techniques to study chemical engineering processes and, in particular, systems in which porous materials play a central role. The group’s initial focus was on heterogeneous catalysis and controlled release pharmaceutical delivery systems and these interests continue to this day. The group’s recent work has been targeted at operando studies of Fischer-Tropsch catalysis which is a core technology for the manufacture of sustainable fuels. Central to these research areas has been the capability of magnetic resonance to study both chemical and transport processes. Lynn is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering in the UK, and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering.

2023 (Singapore)

Henk van As
Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Henk Van As received his Ph.D. from Wageningen University in 1982 and continued as a PD in the same group. Since 1986 he is an Associate Professor (Biophysics) at Wageningen University. He retired in 2019. His research focused on unravelling and understanding transport processes and (water) dynamics at different time and length scales in porous bio-systems to unravel structure-function relationships. For this, Time Domain NMR and quantitative MRI (correlated relaxometry, diffusometry and flow and the effect of exchange), and (rheo-)MRI methods and hardware were developed.

2019 (Paris)

Bernhard Blümich
RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Bernhard Blümich received his Ph.D. from Technical University Berlin and he is Professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at RWTH Aachen, Germany since 1993.
His contributions to MR include:
– Multi-dimensional stochastic NMR spectroscopy
– NMR imaging in material science and chemical engineering
– Mobile NMR for process and quality control
– The NMRMOUSE®: MObile Universal Surface Explorer

2017 (Halifax)

Eiichi Fukushima
ABQMR, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Eiichi Fukushima received his Ph.D. from University of Washington in 1967 and worked at Los Alamos and Lovelace Medical Foundation before co-founding New Mexico Resonance and then ABQMR.
His contributions to MR include:
– Using NMR to measure non-Newtonian and granular matter flows
– Earth’s field NMR
– Microcoil NMR
– Portable, single-sided NMR detectors