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Jul 13, 2023

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

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

ECerS RICHARD BROOK AWARD

Tatsuki Ohji
Yokohama National University, Japan
"Silicon Nitride Ceramics - Fascinating Properties"

ECerS GIAN NICOLA BABINI AWARD

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

ECerS YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD

Jesus Gonzalez Julian
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
"MAX phases: hype or revolution?"

ACerS - ECerS AWARD

ACerS - ECerS AWARD

Francis Cambier
Belgian Ceramic Research Centre, Belgium

2023 ECerS STUDENTS SPEECH CONTEST WINNER

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

JAMES ZHIJIAN SHEN (OPEN CERAMICS BEST PAPER) AWARD

David Karl

TU Berlin, Germany

JECS BEST PAPER AWARD

JECS BEST PAPER AWARD

Thomas Herisson de Beauvoir
CIRIMAT, University of Toulouse, France

JECS TRUST AWARD

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

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