Prigogine Award 2013

The Prigogine Gold Medal 2013 Award Ceremony will take place on the 19th June 2013 in Bucharest, Romania. This prestigious event is sponsored by the University Politehnica of Bucharest on the occasion of this conference and the 9th International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development.

The Prigogine Medal was established in 2004 by the University of Siena and the Wessex Institute of Technology to honour the memory of Professor Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry.

The recipient of the 2013 Award will be Vladimir Voeikov, Professor of Bio-organic Chemistry at Moscow State University.

Vladimir received his degree at Moscow State University and his PhD on Biophysics at the same Institution, completing after that a further doctorate on Biological Sciences.

Since then he has been carrying out outstanding research at the Moscow Academy of Sciences, Duke University and Moscow State University. He is renowned in the field of physical and chemical properties of water and aqueous systems providing for the biological role of water in subcellular, cellular and supracellular levels, evaluation of the functions of water in bioenergetics in particular in aerobic respiration, functions of reactive oxygen species in regulation of biological functions and in bioenergetics.

Vladimir is the author or co-author of more than 250 publications, including over 100 papers in scientific journals, as well as 5 books and monographs. 

He is a member of the International Institute of Biophysics in Neuss, Germany and of the all-Russian Biochemical Society as well as Associate Editor of the Journal on Water, a multi-disciplinary research journal.

 SPECIAL PRIGOGINE LECTURE

“The Key Role of Stable Nonequilibrium State of Aqueous Systems in Bioenergetics”

to be delivered by Prof. Vladimir L. Voeikov
at the Sala Senatului, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
on the morning of Wednesday 19th June, 2013

 Professor Ilya Prigogine

Ilya Prigogine was born in Moscow in 1917, and obtained his undergraduate and graduate education in chemistry at the Free University in Brussels. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contribution to nonequilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures. The main theme of his scientific work was the role of time in the physical sciences and biology. He contributed significantly to the understanding of irreversible processes, particularly in systems far from equilibrium. The results of his work have had profound consequences for understanding biological and ecological systems.

Prigogine’s ideas established the basis for ecological systems research. The Prigogine Medal to honour his memory is awarded annually to a leading scientist in the field of ecological systems. All recipients have been deeply influenced by the work of Prigogine.

Previous Medal Winners

• 2004 Sven Jorgensen, Denmark
• 2005 Enzo Tiezzi, Italy
• 2006 Bernard Patten, USA
• 2007 Robert Ulanowicz, USA
• 2008 Ioannis Antoniou, Greece
• 2009 Emilio del Giudice, Italy
• 2010 Felix Müller, Germany
• 2011 Larissa Brizhik, Ukraine
• 2012 Gerald Pollack, USA

For further information about the Prigogine Awards, please contact Professor Carlos Brebbia at the Wessex Institute of Technology: