JECS Trust and Best Paper Awards

Since 2013, Awards are granted biennially at the ECerS Conference.

JECS Trust Awards :

The JECS Trust Award is made to a ceramist of international reputation who has contributed to the development of the European Ceramic Society by publishing high quality papers in the Society’s journals. The winner is chosen by the Board of the JECS Trust, the body which oversees the development of the Journals. It is awarded biennially at the ECerS conference.

The Award comes with only two responsibilities. The first is to give a Plenary Lecture at the ECerS conference at which the award is made, and the second is to provide a written paper for publication in one of the Society’s journals on the subject of the lecture. The subject of the lecture and paper is the choice of the winner.

Robert Danzer

2013 - Institut für Struktur- und Funktionskeramik - Montanuniversität Leoben - Austria

Thierry Chartier

2015 - Science des Procédés Céramiques et de Traitements de Surface (SPCTS), CNRS–Université de Limoges - France

Rodrigo Moreno

2017 - Spanish National Research Council, Madrid (CSIC) - Spain

Mathias Herrmann

2019 - Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS in Dresden, Germany

Ralf Riedel

2022 - Institute of Materials Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Jozef Vleugels

2023 - KU Leuven, Belgium

JECS Best Paper Awards :

The JECS Best Paper Award is made at the biennial ECerS conferences to the best paper published in the Journal in the two years immediately preceding the year of the conference. Papers are nominated by the Editors and the best paper is chosen by the Board of the JECS Trust.

• 2023: Thomas Herisson de Beauvoir - Cold Sintering Process characterization by in operando electrochemical impedance spectroscopy - published in the Journal of the European Ceramic Society 42 (2022) 5747-5755
• 2022: Mingde Qin - Dual-phase high-entropy ultra-high temperature ceramics - published in the Journal of the European Ceramic Society 40 (2020) 5037–5050.
• 2019: Pedro Ivo Batistel Galiote Brossi Pelissari - Nacre-like ceramic refractories for high temperature applications- published in the Journal of ECerS Volume 38, Issue 4, April 2018, Pages 2186-2193
• 2017: Haibo Zhang - Preparation and enhanced electrical properties of grainoriented (Bi1/2Na1/2)TiO3based leadfree incipient piezoceramics- published in the Journal of ECerS Volume 35, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 2501-2512
• 2015: Anish Paul - UHTC – carbon fibre composites: preparation, oxyacetylene torch testing and characterisation - published in the Journal of ECerS Volume 33, Issue 2, February 2013, Pages 423-432
• 2013 : Karolina Schickle - Towards osseointegration of bioinert ceramics: Introducing functional groups to alumina surface by tailored self assembled monolayer technique - published in the Journal of ECerS Volume 32, Issue 12, September 2012, Pages 3063-3071
• 2011: Valentina Nagliari Follow-up of zirconia crystallization on a surface modified alumina powder - published in the Journal of ECerS Volume 30, August 2010, Pages 3377-3387.

James Zhijian Shen (Open Ceramics Best Paper) Awards:

• 2023: David Karl - Review of space resources processing for Mars missions: Martian simulants, regolith bonding concepts and additive manufacturing - published in Open Ceramics, Volume 9 - March 2022 - 100216