Join us at the FBNL-MR meeting in Rijssel/Lille, June 2-5!

After our festive celebration of the 60th NMR-DG, we now invite the Dutch NMR community to join us for another special meeting in the charming and vibrant city of Rijssel / Lille!

We are excited to co-organize the next France-Belgium-Netherlands-Luxembourg joined Magnetic Resonance Conference to be held in Lille, France, from Tuesday June 2 to Friday June 5, 2026, at the LILLIAD Learning Center Innovation building (https://lilliad.univ-lille.fr/) located on the campus of the University of Lille.

The meeting will bring together experts from four countries across all fields of magnetic resonance and features exciting keynote lectures from invited speakers: Malene Ringkjøbing Jensen, Dominik Bucher, Marie Poirier-Quinot, Mario Chiesa, Carmela Aprile, Arno Kentgens, Laura Castañar-Acedo and Jannie Wijnen.

Additional 44 slots will be reserved for oral presentations selected from abstracts, particularly suited to early career researchers, including Master's students, PhD candidates and recent graduates. Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, a number of scholarships covering the registration fees for young participants will be available. 

Please visit the conference’s website to register (https://fbnl-mr-2026.sciencesconf.org/) and follow updates on the program.

See you all very soon in Lille!

Candidates can be nominated by their PhD (co)promotor or supervisor, or can apply themselves for the Award by sending a short motivation letter with contact details of one or two persons that can be contacted for a reference, the candidate’s CV (including a publication list), the thesis summary and a link to a downloadable digital version of the thesis to the NMR-DG (nmrdgnl@gmail.com). A letter of recommendation by the (co-)promotor or supervisor specifying the contribution of the candidate in the research is very helpful.

Eligible candidates need to have obtained their doctorate at a university in The Netherlands on a topic in the field of magnetic resonance in a broad sense. The thesis should have been defended in the two preceding years (May 1 2024 – May 1 2026).

The Award jury consists of representatives of the Stichting Magnetische Resonantie “NMR-DG” and the Netherlands NMR Discussion Group (who will act as the jury chairman and the jury secretary) and 3–4 additional members, from different magnetic resonance disciplines and appointed by the board of the Dutch NMR-DG. The jury will make a shortlist of 5-10nominees who will be invited to submit 5 hard copies of their thesis. The jury must reach a unanimous decision on the Award and motivate their choice in a laudation, to be presented at the annual symposium of the Dutch NMR-DG. The travel costs of the laureate to participate and present his/her thesis research in this symposium can be reimbursed (maximum € 500) by the Stichting Magnetische Resonantie “NMR-DG”.