The Portuguese Society of Rheology (Sociedade Portuguesa de Reologia) is a non-profit technical scientific and cultural association, possessing legal personality, with no definite term. The Portuguese Society of Rheology was founded in 1997 to bring together individuals, both from the academic and industrial fields, as well as organisations with mutual interests on the science of flow and deformation of materials, to promote and propagate rheology within the national scientific community, to improve the dissemination of knowledge on the field, and to facilitate and develop international collaboration with partners having similar purposes. Materials of interest include, among many others, polymers, foods, paints, biological fluids, and pharmaceutical products. Below we state 4 main objectives for the Society action, taken from the Society by-laws:
* Actions for the stimulation of scientific and technical research, training and specialization;
* The promotion of technical and scientific meetings, to stimulate and develop the cooperation and partnership among its members or in cooperation with other similar associations;
* The diffusion of technical and scientific documentation;
* The affiliation into international organisations of similar nature. Actually, the SPR is member of the European Society of Rheology and the International Committee of Rheology.

In order to build a broad rheological forum where academia and industry can meet, share and discuss ideas to their mutual benefit, we need your participation.

The Sociedade Portuguesa de Reologia cordially invites all those interested on rheology to join SPR and to contribute to promote and propagate rheology at all levels.

Members enjoy the benefits of receiving SPR newsletter, propagating rheological information through the SPR means, easier contacts with other national and international rheologists, conference discounts, etc.

In addition, student members benefit from the possibility to apply for the Annual Doctoral Prize and for conference/travel grants.

Please join the SPR! We need you.

20011 annual fees:

Full members - 25 €

Student members - 15 €

Collective members - 100 €

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The Portuguese Society of Rheology was formally constituted on December 11, 1997 (VAT number 504 030 108). The Installing Committee of the SPR was constituted by Profs. António C. Diogo (Technical University of Lisbon), President, José Covas (University of Minho), Pilar Gonçalves (University of Porto) and the late M. Frias (Lisbon). The Constitution of the Portuguese Society of Rheology was approved at the first electoral meeting held in Porto on May 7, 1998. According to the Constitution of the SPR, any individual or entity which has applied for membership before May 7, 1998 was considered as founder member of the Society. The list of founder members included 68 individuals and collective entities. The first Council Boards were also elected on May 7, 1998. The General Meeting of May 7, 1998, approved (by unanimity) the application of the Portuguese Society of Rheology for membership of the International Committee of Rheology and of the European Society of Rheology. The first Scientific Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Rheology took place in Lisbon, February 18, 1999. Also in 1999, the SPR cooperated with the Italian Society of Rheology, the Spanish Rheology Group and the Hellenic Society of Rheology in the organisation of the Southern Europe Conference on Rheology, held in Falerna Lido (Calabria, Italy), September 7-11. Since then, several meetings/conferences have been organized under the auspices of the SPR along with other Societies / Groups of Rheology:

- 2nd Scientific Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Rheology, Porto, April 7-8, 2000;

- 3rd Scientific Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Rheology, Mirandela, April 26-28, 2001;

- Join Meeting of British, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish Rheologists, Torremolinos (Málaga, Spain), April 24-26, 2002;

- AERC 2003 Conference, Guimarães (Portugal) September 11-13, 2003, organised by the DPE, University of Minho (Portugal;

- 1st Iberian Rheology Meeting, IBEREO'04, Beja (Alentejo, Portugal)September 9-11, 2004;

- 2nd Iberian Rheology Meeting, IBEREO'08, Madrid (Spain), September 11-12,2006;

- 3rd Iberian Rheology Meeting, IBEREO'10, Caparica (Portugal), September 7-9, 2010, to be held at the New University of Lisbon - Faculty of Scoiences and Technology;

- XVIth ICR, Lisbon (Portugal), August 5-10, 2012.

General Meeting Council

President
Isabel Maria Nunes de Sousa
DAIAT, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Univ. Técnica de Lisboa
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1st Secretary
João Miguel Nóbrega
Dep. Eng. Polímeros,Universidade do Minho
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2nd Secretary
Loic Hilliou
Dep. Eng. Polímeros,Universidade do Minho
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Auditing Board

President
João Dias de Sousa
Dias de Sousa Lda, Póvoa de Sta. Iria
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1st Officer
Olga Machado Carneiro
Dep. Eng. Polímeros,Universidade do Minho
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2nd Officer
Maria de Fátima Piteira
Tintas Dyrup S.A., Sacavém
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President
Maria Teresa Varanda Cidade
New University of Lisbon, Sciences and Technology Faculty, Dep. Materials Science, Campus da Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Tel: +351 21 2948584 * Fax: +351 21 3653200
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Vice President
João M. Lopes Maia
Case Western Reserve University, Dept. of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, CLiPS - Center for Layered Polymeric Systems
Kent Hale Smith Bldg., Room #540, 2100 Adelbert Rd.
Cleveland, OH 44106-7202
Tel: +1-216-368-6372 * Fax: + 1-216-368-4202
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Secretary
Catarina Almeida da Rosa Leal
Polytechnical Institut of Lisbon, ISEL, Scientific Area of Physics, Rua Conselheiro Emídio Navarro, 1, 1959-007 Lisboa,, Portugal
Tel: +351 21 8317135 * Fax: +351 21 8317138
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Past-president
Professor Isabel Maria Nunes de Sousa
DAIAT, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Univ. Técnica de Lisboa
Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal
Tel: +351 21 3653246 * Fax: +351 21 3653200

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