I am honored to have received the “OpenFOAM community contribution award” during “The 3rd UCL OpenFOAM Workshop”, 24th February 2021, with the motivation: “He has created a free OpenFOAM course at the Chalmers University of Technology. His course is totally free and open for worldwide PhD students. He spent enormous hours preparing and delivering the course, every year since 2007. The course covers deep knowledge of various CFD topics and has practically helped many junior researchers to solve their problems using OpenFOAM. He challenged his students to make a new OpenFOAM function or solver before graduate, which made some of them become pioneering young leaders who continue contributing CFD community in an opensource manner.” The selection process was (a) nominated by audiences, (b) recommended by UCL OpenFOAM Workshop community (c) approved by international OpenFOAM Workshop community. A recording is available at https://youtu.be/IYNOZPVl9X8. It starts with a description of the award. I get the award at 3:10, and it continues to 10:45. After that the award is give also to another person. Note that I have asked them to donate the prize money (£200) to UNHCR.
Best paper award, 7th World Congress on Mechanical, Chemical, and Material Engineering (MCM'21), August 02, 2021 - August 04, 2021 | Prague, Czech Republic - Virtual Congress due to Covid-19: Pradip Aryal, University West, Sweden for the paper entitled: “Effect of Substrate Orientation on Melt Pool during Multi-Layer Deposition in V-Groove with Gas Metal Arc” ; Author: Pradip Aryal, Kjell Hurtig, Fredrik Sikström, Håkan Nilsson, Isabelle Choquet.
Best pitch awarded at Chalmers Startup Camp: Deeptech, 2023. A pitch for a business idea on surgery of nasal breathing problems.