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 – 5th 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 International Conference on Advances in Refractory & Ceramic Materials 2026 organized by the Indian Ceramic Society on the occasion of their 90th Annual Session that will be held from 14th to 16th December 2026 at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, India.
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.
Information
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ECerS office
Av. Gouverneur Cornez , 4
7000 Mons
Belgium