The European Ceramic Society

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France

CEA - Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives

The CEA is the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission.

Director : Fabienne Audubert

Email : fabienne.audubert@cea.fr

Phone : 04 42 25 76 47

Address : Centre de Saclay 91 191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex

Research topics :

Topics in the ceramic sector :  

  • Nuclear ceramics
  • Nuclear fuels
  • Nuclear waste storage
  • Nuclear fission reactors
  • Nuclear fusion
  • Fuel cells
  • Ceramics for military applications

Research fields and research centers in the ceramic sector :  

  • Energy (Cadarache, Marcoule, Saclay) :  Fuels and ceramics, Wastes, Reactors for the future
  • Fundamental research (Saclay, Caen, Cadarache) :  Nuclear fuels, Nuclear fusion
  • Technologies (Grenoble) :  Fuel cells, Materials for use in severe conditions, Nanomaterials and surface engineering
  • Defense (Le Ripault, Bruyère le Chatel, Valduc) :  Ceramics for military applications

Latest news

2025 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 3rd call!

In the frame of the 2025 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a first call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 2025 International Symposium on Green Processing for Advanced Ceramics (IGPAC 2025), organised by the Ceramic Society of Japan, from 5th to 9th October 2025 in Ise-Shima/Mie, Japan.

Jul 22, 2025
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust for Mobility projects is 31st August 2025!

Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of October 2025. Activities submitted for the deadline of 31st August 2025 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before November 2025.

Jul 22, 2025

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