Plenary Lectures & ECerS Awards Ceremony

8:30-8:45: Short introduction and ECerS & JECS Trust presentation by Francis Cambier, ECerS President, and Jon Binner, JECS Trust Chair

8:45-8:55: Presentation of Dresden 2025 by Alexander Michaelis - IKTS, Germany

8:55-9:25: JECS Trust Award: Jozef Vleugels – KULeuven, Belgium: Zirconia based composites with non-oxide additives

9:25-9:30: JECS Best Paper Award: Thomas Herisson de Beauvoir – CIRIMAT, University of Toulouse, France

9:30-9:35: James Zhijian Shen (Open Ceramics) Best Paper Award : David Karl – TU Berlin, Germany

9:35-10:05: Stuijts Award : Jan Dusza - Institute of Materials Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia: Deformation and fracture of ultra – high temperature high - entropy ceramics at micro/nano level

10:05-10:35: Richard Brook Award: Tatsuki Ohji - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan: Silicon Nitride Ceramics - Fascinating Properties

10:35-11:05: Industrial Award: Moritz von Witzleben - INMATEC Technologies GmbH, Germany: Foundation of a start-up in the field of technical ceramics

11:05-11:35: Young Scientist Award: Jesus Gonzalez Julian - RWTH Aachen University, Germany: MAX phases: hype or revolution?

11:35-11:40: ECerS-ACerS Award: Francis Cambier - Belgian Ceramic Research Centre, Belgium

11:40-12:00: Announcement of the 2023 Students Speech Contest Winner

12:00-12:05: Announcement of the 2023 YCN Photo Contest Winner

12:05-12:10: Closure of the ceremony