DEWIS award for Negar Khoshnevis Gargar

Negar Khoshnevis Gargar has won the DEWIS award for her PhD research. According to Delft Women in Science (DEWIS) Negar is the most talented female PhD graduate at TU Delft of her graduation year. She obtained her cum laude doctorate with a dissertation entitled ‘Combustion for Enhanced Recovery of Light Oil at Medium Pressures’.

On 12 February 2016, she received the prize from Rector Magnificus Karel Luyben during the annual DEWIS symposium ‘Gender, Power & Politics’. The jury praised her combination of laboratory work, maths, physics and relevance to thermal light oil recovery.

DEWIS award
The DEWIS award is a prize awarded for excellence, founded with the objective of giving additional recognition to the quality of dissertations by young female researchers at TU Delft and boosting the visibility of their work.

 

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