Peter Sergeant receives the Grand Nagamori Award (2024)
(15-09-2024) Professor Sergeant is the Grand Nagamori Award winner of the 10th edition of the Nagamori awards for his research activities on design of sustainable axial and radial flux synchronous electric machines.
Nagamori Foundation held the Tenth Nagamori Awards Ceremony on Sunday, September 8, 2024 in Kyoto to honor the winners of the awards and the recipients of the research grant for 2024. After the 6 Nagamori Awards winners presented their research topic, Nagamori Foundation’s Review Committee chose Dr. Peter Sergeant (Full Professor, Ghent University) as the Grand Nagamori Award winner.
The commendation ceremony began with Prof. Hori, the Review Committee’s Chair, explaining how the winners were selected, followed by the announcement of the Tenth Grand Nagamori Award winner. Each winner received a commendation certificate and a prize trophy from Mr. Nagamori, President of Nagamori Foundation, and then representing the award winners, Professor Sergeant delivered a speech to express the pleasure of receiving the Award.
Nagamori awards
Since motors appeared in the early 19th century, they have been used in all types of electrical appliances and are now an indispensable part of our daily lives. Today, a huge number of motors are used in a wide range of applications, so much so that it is claimed motors account for more than 55% of the world's power consumption today.
Therefore, motor research is extremely important if we are to maintain our affluent lives while also perpetually conserving the global environment. We created these Nagamori Awards to bring vitality to technological research of motors and related fields, such as generators and actuators, and also to support the researchers and development engineers who strive each day to fulfill their dreams.
Nagamori Foundation
Nagamori Foundation was established to contribute to the scientific and industrial development inside and outside Japan by commending those who engage in R&D activities, domestic and overseas, in the area of research and technology. The Foundation's main activity is to promote researches related to motors, actuators, and power generators, address a major challenge of “creating affluent lives” and “perpetually conserve the global environment,” and operate the Nagamori Awards, a system to commend those who have made an innovative technological development.