The European Ceramic Society

Council members

The Council of the ECerS is composed of the Presidents of the Member organizations and one more member of each national organization: 

Austria

Austria

Tanja Lube  

Montanuniversitaet, Leoben

     

Klaus Reichmann

Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Materials

Graz University of Technology - Graz

Belgium

Belgium

Annabel Braem

KU Leuven, Leuven

    

Nicolas Somers

Materialise, Leuven

Croatia

Croatia

Vilko Mandić

University of Zagreb

Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology

 

Luka Pavić

Ruđer Bošković Institute - Zagreb

Czech Republic

Czech Republic

Anna-Marie Lauermannova

University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague

      

Michal Pribyl 

PROMAT Praha

Denmark

Denmark

Astri Bjørnetun Haugen

Technical University of Denmark - Copenhagen

 

Erling Ringgaard

Meggitt, Christchurch

Finland

Finland

Thomas Kronberg 

Åbo Akademi University

 

Erkka Frankberg 

Material Science and Environmental Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Tampere University

France

France

Fabienne Audubert

CEA

             

Jean-Marc Heintz
ICMCB Bordeaux

Georgia

Georgia

Maia Balakhashvili

Georgian Technical University

           

Zviad Kovziridze 

Georgian Techn. Univ.

Germany

Germany

Michael Rozumek

Morgan Advanced Materials Haldenwanger GmbH

    

Angelika Priese

Imerys Murg GmbH

Greece

Greece

Athena Tsetsekou 

School of Mining Engineering and Metallurgy

National Technical University of Athens

 

Simeon Agathopoulos

University of Ioannina

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Hungary

Hungary

Csaba Balazsi

Centre for Energy Research

Eötvös Loránd Research Network - Budapest

 

Katalin Balazsi

Thin Film Physics Department - Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science

Centre for Energy Research, Eötvös Loránd Research Network - Budapest

Ireland

Ireland

Stuart Hampshire

The Bernal Institute

University of Limerick

 

Eamonn De Barra

Mechanical, Aeronautical, and Biomedical Engineering

University of Limerick

Italy

Italy

Cristina Siligardi

Dip. di Ingegneria “Enzo Ferrari” Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

     

Paolo Colombo

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale
Università di Padova

Latvia

Latvia

Dagnija Loca

Latvian Materials Research Society

Rudolfs Cimdins Riga Biomaterials Innovations and Development Centre

  

Kristine Salma-Ancane 

Institute of General Chemical Engineering

Riga Technical University

Lithuania

Lithuania

Aleksej Zarkov
Vilnius University

   

Sarunas Svirskas
Vilnius University

The Netherlands

The Netherlands

Eddy Brinkman 

Betase B.V.

 

Louis Winnubst

University of Twente

Inorganic Membranes group

Norway

Norway

Julian Walker

Department of Materials Science and Engineering - NTNU - Gløshaugen

Poland

Poland

Dawid Kozień

AGH - University of Science and Technology

           

Paulina Wiecinska

Warsaw University of Technology

Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Chemical Technology

Portugal

Portugal

José Carlos Almeida 

Department of Materials and Ceramic Engineering

University of Aveiro

    

Hugo Fernandes

University of Aveiro - CICECO

Romania

Romania

Adrian Volceanov 

University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest

SIMONa department

 

Adelina Ianculescu

University "POLITEHNICA" Bucharest

Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Materials Science Department of Science and Engineering of Oxide

Serbia

Serbia

Branko Matovic 

Department of Material Science

Vinka Institute of Nuclear Science

 

Vladimir V. Srdic 

Faculty of Technology

University of Novi Sad

Slovak Republic

Slovak Republic

Pavol Sajgalik 

Slovak Academy of Sciences - Bratislava

 

Peter Tatarko

Institute of Inorganic Chemistry

Slovak Academy of Sciences - Bratislava

Slovenia

Slovenia

Matjaz Spreitzer 

Advanced Materials Department

Jožef Stefan Institute - Ljubljana 

 

Andraz Kocjan

Department for Nanostructured Materials

Jožef Stefan Institute - Ljubljana

Spain

Spain

Adrian Quesada

Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio, CSIC - Madrid

          

Jadra Mosa

Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio, CSIC - Madrid

Sweden

Sweden

Erik Adolfsson

Swerea - Swedish Research - Kista

Switzerland

Switzerland

Frank CLemens

Swiss Association for Materials Science and Technology (SVMT)

 

Thomas Graule

Swiss Association for Materials Science and Technology (SVMT)

Turkey

Turkey

Taner Kavas (President)

Turkish Ceramic Federation - Istanbul

     

Servet TURAN

Eskişehir Technical University

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Richard Todd

University of Oxford

   

Jon Binner 

School of Metallurgy and Materials - University of Birmingham

Latest news

New Empa fellowship program for future women science leaders

Empa has launched the Women Scientific Leadership Fellowship, a new four-year program designed to support outstanding women scientists on their path towards independent research leadership.

Oct 7, 2026
2027 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 1st call - ICACC 2027

In the frame of the 2027 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 51st International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC 2027) to be held from 24th to 29th January 2027 in Daytona Beach, USA, as well as the IGNITE MSE (International Gathering and Networking for Individuals to Explore Materials Science and Engineering) event that will be held on Sunday 24th January 2027.

Oct 1, 2026

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