Young Ceramists Network

The Young Ceramists Network (YCN) is an initiative of the European Ceramic Society (ECerS) sponsored by the JECS Trust. This non-profit network aims at bringing young students and professionals currently doing research on Ceramics.

• A network for Young people conducting research on the field of Ceramics (finished  PhD no more than 8 years ago)
• For young researchers (professional, PhD but also post-doctoral or master students), belonging to European/International research institutions (universities, laboratories...)
• An interactive website: www.youngceramists.eu/
• A Facebook page: YCN Ceramic Social Club
• A regular newsletter

A group of 5 young researchers is in charge of managing the Young Ceramist Network committee: 

Erkka Frankberg  Finland

Laura Tiainen  Portugal

Maria Canillas Perez  Spain

Nicolas Somers France

Antonia Ressler  Croatia

The committee works under the supervision of the Young Ceramist and Training Working Group leader and of one senior ECerS Council member. 

The list of the past committee members is available here.

The 2019 Student's evening was organised by YCN, with the support of the JECS Trust, during the 2019 ECe'rS Conference, on Tuesday 18th June at the Murazzi Student Zone, which is located near the Po river, in one of the liveliest areas of Torino. Young ceramist researchers, that is, Master and PhD students including early stage PhD`s were invited to attend and had the opportunity to socialize, interact and discuss their work in a warm and festive atmosphere. A great opportunity to start professional and/or friendly relationships, to initiate collaborative networks and plan lab visits.  There were 137 participants! 

Some presentations were made during the event:

• The YCN committee has presented the Network, its activities and the Facebook Ceramic Social Club. 
• Raúl Bermejo, Chair of Structural and Functional Ceramics, Department of Materials Science, Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Austria, made a very interesting talk ““Alexa”… please give me an ERC Grant !!!".
• Agnieszka Zurawska from The Institute of Power Engineering, Warsaw, Poland, made again the presentation for which she was awarded during the 2018 first YCN workshop.
• Finally, the winner of the YCN 2019 best photo contest was also announced.

YCN Network Workshop dedicated to young ceramists will be organized every 2 years and the first one was organised in october 2018. 

For more information, please visit the YCN Ceramic Social Club Facebook page or the YCN Website or contact the ECerS secretariat or one of the YCN committee members:

• Erkka Frankberg - erkka.frankberg@tut.fi
• Laura Tiainen - laura.tiainen@me.com
• Maria Canillas Perez - mcanillas@icv.csic.es
• Nicolas Somers - Nicolas.Somers@uphf.fr
• Antonia Ressler - aressler@fkit.hr