The European Ceramic Society
Officers
The ECerS President is elected by the Council for a period of two years. The President is assisted by the Executive Committee and an Advisory Group.
Richard Todd
President
University of Oxford, Department of Materials
United Kingdom
Thomas Graule
Past-President
Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Switzerland
Zbigniew Pędzich
President Elect
AGH University of Krakow
Poland
Jon Binner
School of Metallurgy and Materials - University of Birmingham
UK
Erkka Frankberg
Tampere University
Finland
Andraz Kocjan
Department for Nanostructured Materials - Jožef Stefan Institute
Ljubljana - Slovenia
Anne Leriche
UPHF Valenciennes
France
Paola Palmero
Polito - Torino
Italy
Pavol Sajgalik
Slovak Academy of Sciences - Bratislava
Slovak Republic
Francis Cambier
ECerS Secretary
Belgian Ceramic Research Centre, Mons
Belgium
Moritz von Witzleben
Treasurer
INMATEC Technologies GmbH
Germany
Latest news
2026 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 4th call!
In the frame of the 2026 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 11th International Congress on Ceramics – ICC 11 – that will take place from 6th to 11th September 2026 at the Sapporo Convention Center in Sapporo, Japan.
New Impact factors released for the 2 ECerS Journals!
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Impact Factors were released for the two official Journals of the European Ceramic Society:
- Journal of ECerS: 6.3
- Open Ceramics: 3.4
Information
Contact us for any information: contact@ecers.org - We will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible.
ECerS office
Av. Gouverneur Cornez , 4
7000 Mons
Belgium