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ABC Jean‐François Baumard (France) Miroslav M. Bucko (Poland) Carmen Baudin (Spain) Alida Bellosi (Italy) Alida Bellosi (Italy) Lennart Bergstrom (Sweden) Jon Binner (United Kingdom) Paul Bowen (Switzerland) Francis Cambier (Belgium) Elis Carlström (Sweden) Elis Carlström (Sweden) Thierry Chartier (France)

DEFGH Arturo Dominguez Rodriguez (Spain) Jan Dusza (Slovak Republic) Gilbert Fantozzi (France) Jose F. Fernandez (Spain) José M.F. Ferreira (Portugal) Peter Greil (Germany)( y) Kristof Haberko (Poland) Stuart Hampshire (Ireland) Juergen Heinrich (Germany)

IJKLIJKL Tomaž Kosmač (Slovenia) Zoltán Lenčéš (Slovak Republic) Anne Leriche (France) Jerzy Lis (Poland)

Distinguish

Sir Richard Brook (UK)

of ECerS

MNOP Hasan Mandal (Turkey) Tapio Mӓntylӓ (Finland) Rodrigo Moreno (Spain) Roman Pampuch (Poland) † Roman Pampuch (Poland) † Zbigniew Pędzich (Poland)

QRS Ralf Riedel (Germany) P l S j lik (Sl k R bli )

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Pavol Sajgalik (Slovak Republic) James Shen (Sweden) Vladimir YA. Shevchenko (Russia) Wilhelm Siemen (Germany) Agnès Smith (France) Vl di i S dić (S bi ) Vladimir Srdić (Serbia) Danilo Suvorov (Slovenia)

TUV Richard Todd (United Kingdom) Enrico Traversa (Italy) Omer Van Der Biest (Belgium) Adrian Volceanov (Romania)

WXYZWXYZ Louis Winnubst (The Netherlands) Julie Yeomans (United Kingdom) Paolo Zannini (Italy)

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Distinguished Fellow:

Rudi Metselaar  (Th(

Honorary Fellows:

Suk‐Joong L. Kang (K Gary Messing (USA)y g ( ) Victor Carlos Pando Yukio Sakabe (Japan Yoshio Sakka (Japan Mrityunjay Singh (U k ( l Mike Swain (Austral Masahiro Yoshimura

Fellows:

Christos Aneziris (Ge Csaba Balazsi (Hung João Lopes Baptista Jérôme Chevalier (F Paolo Colombo (Ital Paolo Colombo (Ital Michele Dondi (Italy Robert Freer (UK) Branko Matovic (Se Alexander Michaelis Laura Montanaro (It Victor M. Orera (Spa Michael J. Pomeroy Andreas Roosen (Ge D id S ith (F David Smith (France

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RUDI METSETHE NE

Rudolf MetselaaUniversity of Techy

He was born 30‐0Amsterdam and(summa cum lauthesis “Infrared sp

From 1967 ’76From 1967‐’76Laboratories in EMaterials and thethe Eindhoven UnFrom 1985‐’98Ceramics (a jointInstitute of Applie

He published abosolid state chemis

He is Honorary Mwhile the Americaand as Distinguisand as DistinguisAcademy of CeraUniversity of TeDiploma of the M

Rudi was the firsInternational ConAward and the St

DISTINGUISHEDDISTINGUISHEDFELLOW

ELAAR THERLANDS

ar is an emeritus professor of the Eindhovenhnology in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.gy ,

06‐1936 in Zaandam and studied at the University ofobtained a master degree in Physical Chemistry

ude) and where he received a Ph.D. in 1967 on apectroscopy of solids”.

he worked as researcher at Philips Researchhe worked as researcher at Philips ResearchEindhoven in the group Magnetism and Magneticen was nominated professor in Physical Chemistry atniversity of Technology until his retirement in 2001.Scientific director of the Centre for Technicalinstitute of the Eindhoven university and the TNO

ed Physics).

out 300 scientific and technical papers in the field ofstry and ceramic materials.

Member of the Netherlands Ceramic Society (NKV),an Ceramic Society (ACerS) awarded him as a Fellowshed Life Member He is Academician of the Worldshed Life Member. He is Academician of the Worldmics and received the Gold Medal of the Eindhovenchnology, the BP Energy Prize, and a Honorary

Mexican Ceramic Society.

st president of the Society and organizer of the 1stnference of the ECerS. He received the Richard Brookuijts Award

HONORARYHONORARYFELLOWS SUK‐J

L. 

Suk‐Joong L. Kang is President of the Korea InsEngineering and Technology (KICET). Before joining

h d f h fwas a Distinguished Professor in the Department ofreceived a Dr.‐Ing degree from the Ecole Centraled’ Etat degree from the University of Paris VI. Afte1980, he also served as a Visiting Professor at tPlank‐Institut, at Samsung Electromechanics, atNew South Wales, and at the University of Tokyo.

Dr. Kang has published more than 280 papersmicrostructural evolution in ceramics and metals. Hthe text Sintering: Densification, Grain Growth anpublished in 2005. He developed the “Pore Fillingphase sintering. Since the late 1990’s, Dr. Kangcontributed to the understanding of microstructt t l t iti d d f t f tistructural transition and defect formation aintroduced the concept of the mixed control of boand deduced the principle of microstructural evolufellow of the American Ceramic Society and a memAcademy of Ceramics. He also served as PresidePowder Metallurgy Institute, the Korean CeramicAsia‐Oceania Ceramic Federation, and as EditoJournal of Asian Ceramic Societies. He is the reciAward from the American Ceramic Society, the Ricfrom the European Ceramic Society, the HelmhFellow Award, the Inchon Prize from the IFoundation, and the Korea Engineering Prize fromthe Republic of Korea.

Recipient of the Richard Brook Award of the ESociety in 2015.

OONGKANGKOREA

stitute of Ceramicg KICET in 2015, heff MSE at KAIST. Hede Paris and a Dr.er joining KAIST inhe Stuttgart Max‐the University of

on sintering andHe is the author ofnd Microstructure,g Theory” of liquidg has particularlytural evolution byt i t f Ht interfaces. Heoundary migration,ution. Dr. Kang is amber of the Worldent of the Koreanc Society, and theor‐in‐Chief of thepient the Sosmanhard Brook Awardholtz InternationalInchon Memorialm the President of

European Ceramic

GARYMESSUSA

Dr. Gary L. MessinEngineering, andg g,Science and Engin

Messing receivedUniversity and aUniversity of Flor

He has publishedHe has publishedoptical, piezoeleincluding seedingceramics, and temProfessor MessinRichard Brook aJeppson and KinMessing is FellowCeramic Society,Academician of th

He is currentlyAcademy of CeraResearchResearch.

Recipient of theSociety in 2003.

HONORARYHONORARYFELLOWS

Y SING

ng is Distinguished Professor of Ceramic Science andd former Head of the Department of Materialspneering at Penn State.

d his B.S. degree in Ceramic Engineering at AlfredPh.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at theida.

d over 300 papers about processes to improve thed over 300 papers about processes to improve theectric and structural applications of ceramicsg of phase transformations, sintering of layeredmplated grain growth to produce textured ceramics.ng has received numerous awards including theward of the European Ceramic Society, and thengery Awards of the American Ceramic Society.w and Distinguished Life Member of the AmericanFellow of the Materials Research Society, and

he World Academy of Ceramics.

President of the Advisory Board of the Worldmics and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Materials

e Richard Brook Award of the European Ceramic

HONORARYHONORARYFELLOWS VICTOR CA

PANDO

Victor C. Pandolfelli is a Full Professor at the MatDepartment, Federal University of São Carlos, Sãof h h h d h d dfrom which he received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degreeearned his Ph.D. from Leeds University (England) aa visiting researcher at École Polytechnique in Mont

Until February 2017, he has authored or co‐authojournals, 239 in proceedings, 2 books (1 internatipatents. During his career, he has received 14 intp g ,(Japan, Germany, USA and Italy) and 76 natiodistinctions for his scientific and technological achie

Pandolfelli is also a member of the Editorial Boajournals and Editor‐in‐chief of the Ceramics Internahe has been the Latin‐American coordinator andB d (2012 til th t) f F I R E (F d tiBoard (2012 until the present) of F.I.R.E. (FederatioRefractory Research and Education) joining 10different countries and 15 key refractory industrPandolfelli is a Full Member of the World Acad(WAC), a Member of the Advisory Board of WAC,the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, a Full MembeNational Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Ay g gSociety and Member of the Technical AdvisoryAdvanced Ceramics – England. He is also Guest ProUniversity in Germany and Wuhan UniversityTechnology (WUST) in China.

ARLOS OLFELLIBRASIL

terials EngineeringPaulo state, Brazil,es in Ceramics. Hend spent a year astreal (Canada).

ored 486 papers inonal) and holds 8ernational awardsonal awards andevements.

rd of 12 scientificational. Since 2004d Member of thef I t ti ln for International

universities fromries in the world.demy of Ceramicsa Full Member ofer of the BrazilianAmerican CeramicBoard of Morganofessor at Freibergof Science and

YUKIOSAKABJAPAN

Yukio Sakabe isJapan.p

He received M.Sand Ph.D., in mathas been ProfessoSenior executive(1970‐2011).

Yukio Sakabe pubthe electronics cceramics, dielecRecognition AwaState UniversityCeramic Soc. (201

He is Fellow of thCeramic Society a

Recipient of theSociety in 2005.

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O BE

Director at Sakabe Ceramic Laboratory in Kyoto,

. (1970) in Solid‐state physics Kanazawa Universityterial engineering from Kyoto University (2002). Heor of Tokyo Institute of Technology (2011‐2016) andvice president of Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

blished 105 technical papers, holds 400 patents inceramics. His primly filed of research is Electro‐ctrics ceramic and he received Ferroelectricard from IEEE (2002), Buessem Award from Penn(2010), and Distinguished Award from Japanese15).

e American ceramic Society, Fellow of the Japaneseand member of the World Academy of Ceramics.

e Richard Brook Award of the European Ceramic

HONORARYHONORARYFELLOWS YO

S

Yoshio Sakka is Senior Scientist at the National InstScience (NIMS) of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.

He received PhD in 1983 from Kyushu Universitycationic diffusion of zirconia solid solution system2016 he was Unit Director at Advanced MaterialsNIMS.

Yoshio Sakka is author or coauthor of 19 books, a,referee’s papers, above 100 review papers, and(including application); Fabrication of innovativethe development of nanoparticle processing; FuAmerican Ceramic Society (May, 2000), academic aJapanese Ceramic Society (May, 2005), ChineseAward (Oct., 2005), Academy member of WoC i (J l 2009) F ll f J CCeramics (July, 2009), Fellow of Japanese Ceram2016).

He received the Richard Brook Award from ESociety in June, 2011.

OSHIO SAKKAJAPAN

itute for Materials

y for his work onms. From 2011 tos Processing Unit,

above 600 originalgabove 80 patentsceramics through

ulrath award fromachievement frome Ceramic Societyorld Academy ofi S i t (Jmic Society (June,

European Ceramic

MRITYSINGHUSA

Dr. Mrityunjay SCleveland, OH. H,and Governor of AAcademy of Cerathe InternationalMetallurgical EngVaranasi, India inState University,Institute Troy NYInstitute, Troy, NYASM InternationaScience (AAAS),received HonorTechnology in JaSlovakia in 2016.

He is recipient oawards and prdistinguished lprofessorships. Dproceedings; sevfifteen book chapseventy five papseventy five papdelivered numeinternational confadvisory boardsinternational jour

Recipient of theSociety in 2007.

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YUNJAY  

Singh is Chief Scientist, Ohio Aerospace Institute,e is Past President of the American Ceramic SocietyyActa Materialia, Inc. He is Academician of the Worldmics, Italy and currently serves as Vice President ofl Board of the Academy. He received his Ph.D. ingineering from Indian Institute of Technology‐BHU,n 1983 and did his post‐doctoral work at Louisiana, Baton Rouge, LA and Rensselaer PolytechnicY He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic SocietyY. He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society,al, American Association for the Advancement ofand National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He hasrary Doctorates from Nagaoka University ofapan in 2013 and Slovak Academy of Sciences,

of more than sixty five national and internationalrizes worldwide including many honorary andlife memberships/fellowships and honoraryDr. Singh is editor/co‐editor of fifty five books andven special journal volumes; author/co‐author ofpters/invited reviews; and more than two hundredpers in various journals and proceedings He haspers in various journals and proceedings. He haserous keynote and plenary presentations inferences, forums, and workshops, and serves on theand committees of more than fifteen prestigiousrnals and technical publications.

e Richard Brook Award of the European Ceramic

HONORARYHONORARYFELLOWS

SAUS

Professor Michael Swain is currently professor of Biat the Faculty of Dentistry University of Kuwait

f h l lDirector of the MSc course in Dental Materialsformerly head of Biomaterials, Faculty of Dentistryof Otago, New Zealand, as well as the BiomaterialsUnit at the University of Sydney. He graduated wand PhD (1973) in physics from the UniversityAustralia. After post‐doctoral experiences in the UShe joined CSIRO, in Australia, working on zirconia Aj , , gand subsequently Nano‐mechanical Properties ofhe joined Sydney University where he taught inEngineering Department and from 1994 to the Den

Professor Swain has more than 600 journal puco‐author of three books with an h‐factor of 5815 000 it ti H h i d th 3015,000 citations. He has supervised more than 30numerous Masters theses. His main area of resebeen advanced ceramics and the critical role oftheir properties. He is also interested in natural cadental restorative material systems. In 2011 he spethe University of Freiburg in Germany where he wainvestigating the response of cells on various surfacg g p

Recipient of the Richard Brook Award of the ESociety in 2013.

MIKE SWAIN  STRALIA

io‐clinical Scienceswhere he is theScience. He was

y of the Universitys Science Researchwith a B.Sc (1969)of NSW, Sydney

SA, UK and EuropeAdvanced Ceramicsmaterials. In 1990n the Mechanicaltal Faculty.

ublications and is8 and more thanPhD t d t lPhD students plusearch interest hasmicrostructure onalcified tissue andent a sabbatical atas also involved inces.

European Ceramic

MASAYOSHIMTAIWAN

Masahiro YOSHIMof Promotion CScience and EngTainan City, in TaInstitute of Techn

Masahiro YOSHIMSc. in EngineeringHe became ReseaHe became Reseaand Full ProfessoTokyo Institute ofmade his Post DFrance and in 197

He was the Directdretired at 2008

Technology. AfterUniv., Japan, UniMetal. Res., CASCheng Kung UnProffessor.

Now he has moBooks (44 BookInternatinal. CitaThomson‐Reuterin 19 OrganizingEditors of various

Masahiro YOSHIMInternational SolPresident of theNomination Comof Ceramics (WAC2008, Former Pre

Recipient of theSociety in 2001.

HONORARYHONORARYFELLOWS

HIRO MURA  N

MURA is Distinguished Chair Professor and DirectorCenter for Global Materials Research, Materialsgineering at the National Cheng Kung University,aiwan. He is also Professor Emeritus of the Tokyonology, Tokyo, Japan.

MURA obtained his B.S. at 1965, M.S. at 1967 and D.g at 1970 from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.arch Associate in 1970 Associate Professor in 1978arch Associate in 1970, Associate Professor in 1978or in 1985 in Materials and Structures Laboratory,f Technology. During those periods (1973‐1975), heoc. in 3 CNRS Labs (Odeillo, Orleans and Paris) in75‐1977 in Mass. Inst. Tech., USA.

tor of Center for Materials Design for 1996‐2002. Hef f k f8, Professor Emeritus from Tokyo Institute of

r experienced several Visiting/Guest Profs. In Tohokuiv. Limerick, Ireland, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Inst.S, Shenyang, China, etc. he has been in Nationaliv., Taiwan since Feb. 2010 as a Visiting Chair

re than 730 peer‐reviewed Papers, 84 Reviews, 3Chapters) & 30 Patents, and more than 17,000

ations with h‐index >60. He is nominated formas ISI Highly‐Cited Researcher (2001). He has served

g Chairs in various conferences and is one of thes journals.

MURA is Founding President (2006‐2008) of thelvothermal and Hydrothermal Association (ISHA),e Advisory Board (2010‐2014), Chairman of themittee, 2002, 2004 & 2006 in The World AcademyC) and Advisory Officer, at IUMRS (Audit Elect 2007‐esident of MRS‐Japan).p

e Richard Brook Award of the European Ceramic

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CHRANGER

Christos Aneziris is since 2001 a professor ofTechnische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Ger

h l ll hin 1992 his Dipl.‐Ing. in Metallurgy at the NUniversity of Athens and in 1996 his PhD at the Rbecame private lecturer in 2000 with the venia legcomponents for steel production“ at the same univ

His major field of research includes fundamental anof modern refractories in advanced metallurgygycovering areas of iron and steel clean technologyadvanced casting of non ferrous low and high temprefractories in energy applications as well asprocessing routes of metal and ceramic matrix finecomposite materials, and porous materials. Hecollaborative research center of the German Scie(DFG) “M ltif ti l Filt t t ib ti(DFG) “Multifunctional Filter systems; a contributimaterials”, co‐speaker of the collaborative researMatrix – Composites” as well as he was speakeProgramme “Refractory Initiation for Reduction ofresults are reflected in more than 300 paperspatents.

Christos Aneziris is a full member of the Saxonia Acin Leipzig since 2009 and since 2011 of the GerTechnical Science (ACATECH) and in 2017 was adistinguished life member of UNITECR. He serves asboard of the German Ceramic Society since 2003 athe vice‐chairman of ECERS in Berlin.

RISTOS NEZIRIS  RMANY

Ceramics at themany. He received

l h lNational TechnicalRWTH Aachen andgendi for “ceramicversity.

nd applied aspectsprocessing routesp gand casting up to

perature materials,non conventionale‐ and coarse‐grainis speaker of theentific Foundation

t Z D f ton to Zero Defectch center “TRIP –er of the PriorityEmmissions”. The

s and 55 granted

cademy of Sciencerman Academy ofalso elected as as a member of thend in 2007 he was

CSABABALAZHUNGA

Csaba Balázsi isSciences Centrereceived his MScBrasov, Romania2000 and DSc deHungary in 2014.Department in tScience, HAS forInstitute of MatInstitute of MatNonprofit Ltd. fProfessorship forat University of Pa

Nowadays as scienew R&D strategHAS Centre ofperformance ceratemperature appnovel structures.based ceramic nagraphene nanopnanoporous hexnanoporous hexceramics from nananocompositeschapters and 9 pa

He is an active elthe Executive CSocieties (FEMS)Advisory Board oCeramic Divisionsince 2013 and msince 2014. HeCeramic Societyand Chair of ECERand Chair of ECER

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A ZSI  ARY 

a scientific advisor at the Hungarian Academy offor Energy Research in Budapest, Hungary. Hegy p , g y

c in materials science at Transylvania University ofin 1993, PhD at University of Miskolc, Hungary inegree from Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS),He was Head of the Ceramics and Nanocomposites

the Institute for Technical Physics and Materials7 year, after that he was appointed Director of theerials Science and Technology of the Bay Zoltánerials Science and Technology of the Bay Zoltánor Applied Research in 2013. He got Associater materials science and advanced ceramics coursesannonia, Hungary in 2008.

entific advisor he is responsible for setting up thegy of the ceramic related research programs of theEnergy Research. His research area covers highamic materials for energy, medical, sensor and highlications, focusing to ceramic nanocomposites with. He pioneered research works on silicon nitrideanocomposites reinforced with carbon nanotubes orplatelets, including other topics on functionalxagonal tungsten oxide materials and bioactivexagonal tungsten oxide materials and bioactiveatural resources. Csaba Balazsi’s research on ceramichas resulted in 180 scientific papers, 7 book

atents.

ected officer of several scientific societies includingouncil of the Federation of European Materials), Young Researchers Board of HAS and Bolyaiof HAS. Csaba Balazsi has been a President of Fineof Hungarian Scientific Society of Silicate Industry

member of Council of the European Ceramic Societyserved as a Guest Editor in Journal of Europeanin 2012, has been a Topic Organizer in ECERS2015RS2017 in Budapest HungaryRS2017 in Budapest, Hungary.

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JOÃO BAPPOR

João Lopes Baptista received his first FPhysics+Chemistry at the University of Lisbon‐1964h b f hChemistry by University of Manchester – 1968

Professor of the University of Aveiro in Portugal, at1974 with the purpose to create there a DepartEngineering. He was the de Department Chairmyears. As a Professor of the University of AveChairmen of the Scientific Council 1982/ 831986/89. He is Scientific Director of the Alente/Research Centre – 2006/Present. As a member ofSociedade Portuguesa de Ceramica e Vidro he hacreation of the ECERS and was member of the EditJournal of the ECERS.

His Materials research interests were mainly in Cerl t i li ti d i C itelectronic applications and in Compositesapplications. In the field of ceramics he published ain peer reviewed journals and has 3 patents.

Due to his research activities he has been nomProfessor of the University of Xangai – 1993, Honthe University of Zhejiang – 1997, Comendadoy j gSant´Iago da Espada, by the President of PortugMember of the Portuguese Engineering AcademMedal of the University of Aveiro – 2004, Medal ofde Ministry of Science of Portugal‐2016

LOPES PTISTA  RTUGAL

First Degree in4 and the Ph.D. in8. He is Emeritust wich he joined inment of Ceramicsen during severaleiro he was alsoand Vice/Rector

ejo Biotechnologyj gythe board of thes participate in detorial Board of the

ramic materials forf h i lfor mechanical

around 150 Papers

minated Honorificorific Professor ofor da Ordem degal 1997, Electedmy – 1998, GoldScientific Merit by

JÉRÔMCHEVAFRANCE

Born in 1970, JéNational InstitutePhD in 1996 (MeJérôme ChevalieGroup.

In 1997, he joinVilleurbanne andDirector of the MDirector of the Mand Deputy DirecEngineering’.

Jérôme Chevalierhealthcare applicon the developphosphate ceraminterests are alsceramics under dnumber of EuroLONGLIFE projectwith European coholds 10 patentholds 10 patentJérôme ChevalierFrance’ (2010‐20the prestigious ‘In

Jérôme ChevalierCeramic Society.

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ME ALIER  E

érôme Chevalier is currently full Professor at thee of Applied Sciences, in France. After receiving hispp , gechanical properties of biomedical grade zirconia),r first became Ceramic Engineer in Saint Gobain

ned the National Institute of Applied Sciences, ind became full Professor in 2004. He is currentlyMaterials Science Laboratory MATEIS (170 people)Materials Science Laboratory MATEIS (170 people)ctor of Research of INSA‐LYON in charge of ‘Health

r is mainly recognized for his work on ceramics forcations, especially on zirconia as a biomaterial andpment of innovative glass‐ceramics and calciummics for bone substitute applications. His researchso related to the mechanical behaviour laws ofdifferent forms. He has been involved in a largeopean projects and has coordinated recently thet. He shows a strong involvement in partnershipsompanies. He has published more than 170 papers,s and has been cited about 5000 times (h=36)s and has been cited about 5000 times (h=36).r has been member of the ‘Institut Universitaire de15) and recently awarded by the French CNRS withnnovation Medal’ (2015).

r is currently Editor of the Journal of the European

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PCOLO

Paolo Colombo is a full Professor of MaterTechnology at the University of Padova (Departm

) d l d dEngineering) in Padova, Italy. He graduated in 19Summa cum Laude, in Chemical Engineering fromPadova and obtained in 1988 a Diploma in Glassthe University of Padova. He was a post‐doc atPadova and then became an Assistant Professor tjoined the University of Bologna in 1998 as an Asso2005, he came back to the University of Padova a, yHe currently is also the Director of the PhD scEngineering.

He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Pennsylvania(1991‐92), a Foreign Scientist at INSA‐Lyon (2015Professor at the Technical University BergakademiP f C l b i l Adj t P f t tProfessor Colombo is also an Adjunct Professor at tMaterials Science and Engineering of the PeUniversity and a Visiting Professor at the DepartmEngineering, University College London. He is an AWorld Academy of Ceramics, a Fellow of the ASociety, a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Miand a Member of the European Academy of Sciencep y

He published more than 220 papers (31 in the J.and co‐authored 15 patents and patent applicationh index is 37. Has co‐organized more than 80 interand given more than 40 invited and plenary taeditorial board of 8 scientific journals. He is a memCeramic Society the American Ceramic SocietCeramic Society, the American Ceramic SocietResearch Society and the Institute of Materials, Min

Professor Colombo’s primary fields of reseafabrication and characterization of highly poroprocessing of Polymers‐Derived‐Ceramics from preCurrent research is focused on geopolymersManufacturing of ceramic components at differ(from nanometers to meters).

PAOLO OMBO 

ITALY

rials Science andment of Industrial

h85 with a Laurea,m the University ofEngineering fromthe University ofthere in 1990. Heociate Professor. Inas a full Professor.chool in Industrial

a State University5) and a Mercatore Freiberg (2016).th D t t fthe Department ofennsylvania Stateent of Mechanical

Academician of theAmerican Ceramicnerals and Mininges.

Eur. Ceram. Soc.)ns and 2 books. Hisrnational symposialks, and is in thember of the Italianty the Materialsty, the Materialsnerals and Mining.

arch include theous ceramics andceramic polymers.and on Additiverent length scales

MICHEDONDITALY 

Michele Dondi iScience and Techn

He graduated in Gafter two yearsenrolled as reseapapers on ISI‐JCR200 industry‐orieproceedings He cproceedings. He cthe field of traditArgentina, Brazil,

He is a Council mItalian Ceramic SR&D working grou

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ELE I  

s head researcher at CNR‐ISTEC, the Institute ofnology for Ceramic Materials, Faenza, Italy.gy , , y

Geological Sciences at the University of Bologna andas ceramic technologist at SACMI Imola, he wasarcher at ISTEC in 1988. Dondi authored over 130R journals and held four patents, along with aroundented publications on non‐JCR journals, books andcoordinated over 60 R&D projects with industries incoordinated over 60 R&D projects with industries intional ceramics. He has been visiting researcher inEgypt, Portugal, and Turkey.

ember of ECerS since 2015, as representative of theSociety, and has been serving in the Industrial andups."

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Robert Freer is Professor of Ceramics at thManchester, in Manchester, UK

He obtained a BSc in Physics from the University oTyne in 1972 and subsequently the degrees of M(1973) and PhD Physics (1978) from the same inawarded a DSc by the University of Manchester Inand Technology (UMIST) in 1998. Following postdothe University of Strathclyde (1977‐1979) any y ( )Edinburgh (1979‐1982) he was appointed SeniPrincipal Lecturer at North Staffordshire Polytechnimoved to the Department of Materials at tManchester/UMIST in 1986, becoming Professserving as Head of Department from 2000 to 2004.over 230 peer reviewed journal papers, servedl f f di d h ldvolumes of conference proceedings and holds

primary field of research is functional ceramics, wmagnetic and microwave dielectric ceramics, butdecade focussed on thermoelectric materials forapplications. He is a Fellow of the Institute of MateMining (IoM3) and was elected a Member of WCeramics in 2008. He was awarded the Verulam PIoM3 in 2007

He served on the ECerS Council for several years, aof the President’s Advisory Board and Chair of tDevelopment Working Group. He was President ofCeramic Federation from 2004‐2006. He served asJournal of ECerS Trust and has been an editorJournal of ECerS Trust and has been an editorEuropean Ceramic Society since 2015.

OBERT FREER  

UK

he University of

of Newcastle uponMSc in Geophysicsnstitution. He wasnstitute of Scienceoctoral positions atnd University ofyor Lecturer thenic (1982‐1985). Hethe University ofor in 1999, andHe has publishedas editor for 12

t t Hione patent. Hiswhich has includedt has for the lastpower generationrials, Minerals and

World Academy ofPrize and medal of

and was a memberthe Research andf the Internationals a member of theof Journal of theof Journal of the

BRANKMATOVSERBIA

Branko Matovic ofrom the Max‐Pldeveloped all hisMagnohrom (KraSciences VincaScientist in 1989,he maintains cusynthesis, proceapplication in eapplication in ecurrently the diconcentrate onmicrostructurescurrently under iIonic conductors,

During his careparticipated to sthan 250 articlesHe has been memnational and intethan 25 invitedconferences Heconferences. Hewith SCI list (Proc

Branko Matovic wSociety for CeramSociety. From 200been involved inECerS student spe

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KOVIC

obtained Dr. Rer. Nat. degree in Material Sciencesanck Institute Stuttgart, Germany in 2003. He hasg , ys scientific activity at the Institute for Refractoriesljevo, Serbia) as well as at the Institute of Nuclear(Belgrade, Serbia), where he became Research, and Full Research Professor in 2009, position thaturrently. He founded a Centre of Excellence foressing and characterization of materials forextreme condition CEXTREME LAB where he isextreme condition‐CEXTREME LAB, where he isrector. The scientific objectives of Prof Matovicthe search for novel materials with definedand outstanding properties. Classes of materialsnvestigation include Electrides, MAX phases, UHTC,Structural, Electro‐optics and Bio‐ceramics.

er, Prof Branko Matovic supervised 15 theses,several international projects and published more(170 in journals included in SCI), 3 book chapters.mber of the organization committees of around 20ernational conferences and has pronounced mored lectures. Also, he organized 4 Internationalis a member of the editorial board of the journalis a member of the editorial board of the journalcessing and Application of Ceramics).

was one of the initiators of the foundation of Serbianmic Materials and he is presently president of the07 until today he is a member of the ECerS and hasn the International Advisory Board and Board foreech contest.

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ALEXAMICHGER

Prof. Alexander Michaelis studied physics at tDüsseldorf in Germany and graduated with a diplod l h b l h h d hand plasma physics. Subsequently he switched to th

chemistry and received his doctorate in electrochespend one year as faculty member at the UnCarolina at Chapel Hill, USA. There, he worked onsuperconductors YBCO and Si‐based microelect1996 he accepted a position at Siemens AG wprocess integration engineer in the field of microelp g gothers at the DRAM Development Alliance in EastIn 2000, he began to work for the corporate reseaBayer AG in Leverkusen. From there he was delegaGmbH, a Bayer subsidiary, where he was head of thand the New Business Development department.was the managing director of InDEC B.V. working inid f l ll D i thi ti h l fi i h d hoxide fuel cells. During this time he also finished h

(habilitation treatise) at University of Düsseldorf.

Since 2004, he is president of the Fraunhofer InsTechnologies and Systems IKTS with more than 600yearly budget of over 54 Mio €. Furthermore, he hathe chair of Inorganic Nonmetallic Materialsguniversity) of Dresden.

He holds more than 40 patent families in mmicroelectronics, and electronics and providedpublications in scientific journals, proceedings and

ANDER HAELISRMANY

the University ofoma thesis in laserh f ld f h lhe field of physicalemistry. In 1995 heniversity of Northhigh temperatureronic systems. Inworking as seniorectronics amongstgFishkill, New York.rch department ofated to H.C. Starckhe Electroceramics. Furthermore, hen the field of solidhi t t d t this state doctorate

titute for Ceramic0 employees and aas been holdingat TU (technical

materials science,more than 300

book chapters.

LAURAMONTITALY 

Since October 20Science and TechTechnology (DISAMaster degree in(Italy) in 1983 andat the ENSM, St.scientific RespoConsortium onLaboratory LINCELaboratory LINCEOctober 2007 tDepartment; fromDoctorate SchooDeputy Rector of

Professor Montanin International Joand holder of 12

Her primary fieldcomposites forapplications, incharacterizationcharacterizationbioceramics, pohumidity ceramic

Since 2012 she hAcademy of ScieScientist at the ItHuman Robotics,Italian Ceramic Sbiannual paper pSociety (2009‐20surface‐modified

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A TANARO  

000 Laura Montanaro is full Professor of Materialshnology, at the Department of applied Science andgy, p ppAT) of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. She obtained then Industrial Chemistry at the University of Torinod the European Ph.D. degree in Materials ProcessingEtienne and INPG, Grenoble (France) in 1990. She isonsible of the INSTM (Italian InterUniversityMaterials Science and Technology) Reference

E for ceramics technology and engineering FromE for ceramics technology and engineering. Fromto November 2011 she was vice‐Head of herm November 2011 to March 2012, Head of thel and, finally, from April 2012 to February 2017,Politecnico di Torino.

naro is author or co‐author of more than 230 papersournals or Proceedings of International Conferences(national or international) Patents.

ds of research concern ceramic materials and theirstructural, high‐temperature, and functionalparticular non‐conventional syntheses and

of pure and composite ceramic powdersof pure and composite ceramic powders,rous ceramics, transparent ceramics, gas andc sensors, cements and concretes.

has been appointed corresponding Member of theences of Torino (established in 1783), and Seniortalian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Centre of Spacein the period 2012 – 2014. She is Member of theociety (ICerS) and received the Award for the bestpublished in the Journal of the European Ceramic010, “Follow up of zirconia crystallization on aalumina powder”).

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VICTO

Victor M. Orera is Professor Emeritus of the InstitMateriales de Aragón (ICMA). Research Centre o

f ( )University of Zaragoza (UZ), Zaragoza, Spain. HeMaterials Laser Processing group (2003‐10) andand Characterization of Structural and Functional CICMA (2011‐2016), CSIC‐Institutional Coordinator2011‐15), CSIC Vice‐President (Nov. 2005‐March2ICMA (1991‐4), Scientific Coordinator of the MDivision of CSIC (1994‐6) and Vice‐Dean of the Scie( )UZ (1984‐6).

He was educated at Zaragoza University aDevelopment Division, Harwell (UK) receiving a PhMetallic Colloids in Fluorites (1976). His career stRadiation Damage in Oxides at Oak Ridge first as p

C lt t S i ti t F th l t thi t has Consultant Scientist. For the last thirty years heon a wide variety of oxide materials with interest oimpurities, microstructure characterisation, proceand structural and functional properties. Recently,work on solid oxide fuel cells at ICMA.

He was nominated fellow of the American Physicayde Honor of the Fundación para el Desarrollo de lHidrógeno, fellow of the Real Academia de Cienciareceived the award of the Spanish Electroceramic SOro”.

He has been Member of the “Sociedad EspañoVidrio” and Chair of the Basic Science Section ofVidrio and Chair of the Basic Science Section of2011 to 2015.

TOR M. ORERA  SPAIN

tuto de Ciencia deof the C.S.I.C. and

d f hwas Head of theof the ProcessingCeramics group offor Aragón (2005,2006), Director ofMaterials Scienceence Faculty of they

nd at MaterialshD for his work ontarted working onpost‐PhD and then

k d t ICMAe worked at ICMAon defects and 3d‐essing techniqueshe pioneered the

al Society, Patronoyas Tecnologías delas de Zaragoza andSociety “Epsilon de

la de Cerámica ythis Society fromthis Society from

MICHAPOMEIRELAN

Michael (Mike) JTechnology at thgythe degrees of B.University), M. Sc(University of Astin Coal‐fired syste

Mike has held th1979 1983 Rese1979 – 1983 Rese– 1985 ResearchLecturer at the U200 technical artprimary field of reresidual glass oncrystallisation ofceramic materialscurrently editingmodule in Materi/ honours for hisUniversity of LimInstitution of En(2011) and the(2011) and the[Collaborative Im

Mike is a foundmember of ECerS

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AEL J. ROY  D 

ohn Pomeroy is Professor of Materials Science &e University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. He holdy , ,Sc. Materials Science & Chemistry (Wolverhamptonc. Surface Technology and Management Techniqueston in Birmingham and his, Ph. D. was on Corrosionems (Wolverhampton University).

he following positions at the University of Limerick:earch Fellow in combustion of low grade coals1983earch Fellow in combustion of low‐grade coals1983h Fellow in Nitride Ceramics and 1985 – 2000University of Limerick. He as published more thanticles, including 92 in ISI indexed journals. Mike’sesearch is aimed at understanding i) the influence ofn the properties of silicon nitride ceramics, ii) thesuch glasses and iii) the corrosive degradation ofs by air or combustion / engine impurities. Mike isg the Ceramics Section of an Elsevier referenceials Science & Materials Engineering. Recent awardss research and development work include: Winnererick Innovation Award (2011), the shortlist for thengineers of Ireland Engineering Excellence awardshortlist for the prestigious Praxis Unico Impactshortlist for the prestigious Praxis‐Unico Impactpact category] award (2012).

er member of Irish Materials Forum (1983) andS since 2011.

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ANDROGER

Andreas Roosen became a professor for Glass anDepartment of Materials Science of the Univer

bNuremberg in 1995.

He studied Glass and Ceramics at the Technical U(Diplom‐Ingenieur), where he also received his PhDNonmetallic‐Inorganic Materials in 1984 under theHans Hausner. After employment as a researchFederal Institute for Materials Testing (BAM) Berling ( )scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technomonths in the Ceramics Processing Research LaborKent Bowen. In 1986 he joined HOECHST AG, Franan executive employee, heading the group of Functhe Corporate Research Department. His researcolloidal ceramics processing, tape casting, cet h l d i t d l t i itechnology and printed electronics, encompassingas well as industry oriented projects. His researcmore than 215 papers and 26 patents. In 2010received the Böttger award from the German Cerain 2013 he was appointed Adjunct ProfessorUniversity of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen, co‐oDepartment of Energy Conversion and Storage.p gy g

Since 2008 Andreas Roosen has been a member oGerman Ceramic Society (DKG) and from 1997 toGerman delegate of the European Working Group “

DREAS OOSEN  RMANY 

d Ceramics at thersity of Erlangen‐

University of BerlinD in the Institute ofe guidance of Prof.associate at the

n, he was a visiting, gology, USA for 18ratories of Prof. H.nkfurt am Main asctional Ceramics atrch is focused oneramic multilayerb th f d t lboth fundamentalch has resulted in0 Andreas Roosenmic Society (DKG);of the Technicalperating with the

of the board of the2003 he was the

“Education”.

DAVIDSMITHFRANCE

David Smith is a mat the Ecole NaLimoges (FranceSt. Andrews, Scofollowed up withleading to an M.Sof applied physialumina and zircreactions After treactions. After tNationale Supériappointment as2002. From 1991at ENSCI promotwith institutionsN. America. From“Groupe d’Etudelaboratory of 6materials. In resreviewed papersproperties andbetween preparceramic supercoceramic supercoGEMH, his reseproperties of minpores and grainceramics. The grpapers in thisthermophysical b

D. Smith has been(GFC) since 198Working Committthe jury of the st2015. He actedEuropean CeramiEuropean Cerami2013 on the themCentury” as wellEuropean Cerami

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D H  E

member of the SPCTS laboratory and a full professorationale Supérieure de Céramique Industrielle inp q). He graduated in 1980 from the University ofotland with a B.Sc. Honours degree in physics andh graduate studies at Queen’s University, CanadaSc. (1982) and a Ph.D. (1986). This work in the fieldcs, involved a.c. impedance measurements of ß‐onia ceramics as well as the associated electrodethe Ph D David Smith joined the staff at the Ecolethe Ph.D., David Smith joined the staff at the Ecoleeure de Céramique Industrielle (ENSCI) leading toassistant professor in 1988 and full professor into 2007, he was in charge of international relationsing the growth of a network of student exchangess involved with ceramics in Europe, Japan andm 2008 to end 2014, David Smith was director of the

des Matériaux Hétérogènes” (GEMH), a research60 people devoted to heterogeneous mineralsearch, David Smith is author or co‐author of 89and 1 patent. He started working first on electricalin particular, from 1987 to 1997, the relationsration, microstructure and electric behavior ofnductors Since 1998 with the creation of thenductors. Since 1998, with the creation of theearch activities have been devoted to thermalneral materials with special attention on the role ofn boundaries for thermal conductivity of oxideroup in Limoges has now published more than 50

domain. Recent developments concern theehaviour of green bodies during drying and firing.

n a member of the Groupe Français de la Céramique88. He represented the GFC on the Educationaltee of the European Ceramic Society, participating intudent speaking contest continuously from 2005 toas chair of the organizing committee of the firstic Society Summer School held in Limoges in Juneic Society Summer School, held in Limoges in Juneme of “Ceramic Science and Technology for the 21stas being part of the local committee for the 13thc Society meeting.

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