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2023 ECerS Awardees and Fellows
The Award Ceremony of the XVIIIth ECerS Conference took place on Wednesday 5th July 2023 in Lyon, France.
We are pleased to highlight here the awardees and the presentations they made during the ceremony.
ECerS STUIJTS AWARD
Jan Dusza
Promatech SAS, Slovakia
"Deformation and fracture of ultra – high temperature high - entropy ceramics at micro/nano level"
ECerS RICHARD BROOK AWARD
Tatsuki Ohji
Yokohama National University, Japan
"Silicon Nitride Ceramics - Fascinating Properties"
ECerS GIAN NICOLA BABINI AWARD
Moritz von Witzleben
INMATEC Technologies GmbH, Germany
"Foundation of a start-up in the field of technical ceramics"
ECerS YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD
Jesus Gonzalez Julian
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
"MAX phases: hype or revolution?"
ACerS - ECerS AWARD
Francis Cambier
Belgian Ceramic Research Centre, Belgium
2023 ECerS STUDENTS SPEECH CONTEST WINNER
Abdullah Jabr
Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
"Understanding the cold sintering process of ceramics"
JAMES ZHIJIAN SHEN (OPEN CERAMICS BEST PAPER) AWARD
David Karl
TU Berlin, Germany
JECS BEST PAPER AWARD
Thomas Herisson de Beauvoir
CIRIMAT, University of Toulouse, France
JECS TRUST AWARD
Jozef Vleugels
KULeuven, Belgium
"Zirconia based composites with non-oxide additives"
You can find more information about the Awardees here.
15 new Fellows and 2 Honorary Fellows were awarded during the Gala Dinner on Wednesday 5th July 2023 in Lyon, France. You can find all ECerS Fellows here.
Picture : Sébastien Ferraro - ECerS 2023
Latest news
2026 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 1st 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 50th ICACC (International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites) that will be held from 25th to 30th January 2026 in Daytona Beach - Florida - United States!
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust for Mobility projects is 30th November 2025!
Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before mid-February 2026. Activities submitted for the deadline of 30th November 2025 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before Mid-March 2026.
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