INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
16th International Ceramics Congress

Co-Chairs:
Rajendra K. BORDIA, Clemson University, USA
Monica FERRARIS, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (Convener)
Ralf RIEDEL, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
Yoshio SAKKA, NIMS, Japan

Members:
Umberto ANSELMI-TAMBURINI, University of Pavia, Italy
Samuel BERNARD, IRCER Limoges, France
Christina BIRKEL, Arizona State University, USA
Francis CAMBIER, INS-BCRC, Mons, Belgium
Mari-Ann EINARSRUD, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway
Claude ESTOURNES, CNRS, France
Begona FERRARI, CSIC, Instituto de Ceramica y Vidrio, Spain
Rosario A. GERHARDT, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Thomas GRAULE, EMPA, Switzerland
Masashi HASEGAWA, Nagoya University, Japan
Suk-Joong L. KANG, KAIST, South Korea
Lisa KLEIN, Rutgers University, USA
Christophe MARTIN, CNRS, France
Laura MONTANARO, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Rodrigo MORENO, CSIC, Spain
Guenter MOTZ, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Alexander S. ROGACHEV, ISMAN, RAS, Russia
Yoshiyuki SUGAHARA, Waseda University, Japan
Mikolai SZAFRAN, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Wei-Hsing TUAN, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Jef VLEUGELS, KU Leuven, Belgium
Fumihiro WAKAI, NIMS, Japan
Masahiro YOSHIMURA, Tokyo Institute of Technology and KISTEC, Japan
 

Convener:
Paolo COLOMBO, University of Padova, Italy
 
Members:
Zhangwei CHEN, Shenzhen University, China
Frank CLEMENS, EMPA, Switzerland
Richard GAIGNON, 3DCeram, France
Jens GUENSTER, BAM, Berlin, Germany
Rujie HE, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Soshu KIRIHARA, Osaka University, Japan
Majid MINARY, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Tassilo MORITZ, IKTS Fraunhofer, Germany
Fabrice PETIT, Belgium Ceramic Research Centre (BCRC), Belgium
Fabrice ROSSIGNOL, University of Limoges, France
Tobias SCHAEDLER, HRL Laboratories, USA
Martin SCHWENTENWEIN, Lithoz GmbH, Austria
Xuan SONG, University of Iowa, USA
Xiaoyong TIAN, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
E. Rodney TRICE, Purdue University, USA
Lorenzo VALDEVIT, University of California at Irvine, USA
Huisuk YUN, Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), South Korea
 

Convener:
Milena SALVO, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
 
Members:
Jian CAO, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Valerie CHAUMAT, CEA, France
Monica FERRARIS, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Masahiro FUKUMOTO, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Marion HERRMANN, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany
Fiqiri HODAJ, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Kevin M. KNOWLES, University of Cambridge, UK
Takaaki KOYANAGI, ORNL, USA
Ivar E. REIMANIS, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Noritaka SAITO, Kyushu University, Japan
Stefan SCHAFFOENER, Bayreuth University, Germany
Alexander SHAPIRO, Ohio State University, USA
Fabrizio VALENZA, ICMATE-CNR, Italy
 

Convener:
Per EKLUND, Uppsala University, Sweden
 
Members:
Jun AKEDO, AIST, Japan
Samir M. AOUADI, University of North Texas, USA
Christopher C. BERNDT, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Mariona COLL, ICMAB-CSIC, Spain
John F. CURRY, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Sang Sub KIM, Inha University, South Korea
Nikola KOUTNA, TU Wien, Austria
Luca LUSVARGHI, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy
Jan MACAK, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Paul H. MAYRHFER, TU Wien, Austria
Peter MECHNICH, DLR, Germany
Elizabeth OPILA, University of Virginia, USA
Henrik PEDERSEN, Linkoeping University, Sweden
Kevin PLUCKNETT, Dalhousie University, Canada
Kostas SARAKINOS, University of Helsinki, Finland
Laurent SOUQUI, Uppsala University, Sweden
Armelle VARDELLE, University of Limoges, France
Robert VASSEN, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany
Cheryl XU, North Carolina State University, USA
Mikhail L. ZHELUDKEVICH, Helmholtz-Zentrum hereon, Germany
 

Convener:
Yu-Ping ZENG, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, CAS, China
 
Members:
Enrico BERNARDO, Università di Padova, Italy
Tobias FEY, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Manabu FUKUSHIMA, AIST, Japan
Gideon GRADER, Technion City, Israel
Valentina MEDRI, CNR-ISSMC, Italy
Kazuki NAKANISHI, Nagoya University, Japan
Tatsuki OHJI, Defense Innovation Science & Technology Inst., Japan
Michael SCHEFFLER, Magdeburg University, Germany
In-Hyuck SONG, Korea Institute of Materials Science, South Korea
Cekdar VAKIF AHMETOGLU, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey
Chang-An WANG, Tsinghua University, China
Jianfeng YANG, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Yu ZHOU, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
 

Convener:
William G. FAHRENHOLTZ, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

Members:
Jon BINNER, University of Birmingham, UK
Jan DUSZA, Institute of Materials Research, Slovakia
Gilbert FANTOZZI, INSA de Lyon, France
Mathias HERRMANN, IKTS, Germany
Walter KRENKEL, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Peter KROLL, University of Texas, Arlington, USA
Hua-Tay LIN, Guangdong University of Technology, China
Branko MATOVIC, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Miladin RADOVIC, Texas A&M University, USA
Robert O. RITCHIE, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Pavol ŠAJGALÍK, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Raffaele SAVINO, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Katsumi YOSHIDA, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
 

Convener:
Guo-Jun ZHANG, Donghua University, China
 
Members:
Subramshu S. BHATTACHARYA, IIT Madras, India
Bai CUI, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA
Kaveh EDALATI, Kyushu University, Japan
Horst HAHN, University of Arizona, USA
Gregory E. HILMAS, University of Missouri, USA
Chun-Hway HSUEH, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ryo INOUE, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Jian LUO, University of California, San Diego, USA
Frederic Tullio MONTEVERDE, CNR-ISSMC, Italy
Corey OSES, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Michael J. REECE, Queen Mary University London, UK
Leonardo VELASCO ESTRADA, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Yiquan WU, Alfred University, USA
Yanchun ZHOU, Zhengzhou University, China
Ji ZOU, Wuhan University of Technology, China
 

Conveners:
Yury GOGOTSI, Drexel University, USA
Johanna ROSEN, Linkoping University, Sweden
 
Members:
Babak ANASORI, Purdue University, USA
Thierry CABIOC'H, University of Poitiers, France
Huiming CHENG, Institute of Metal Research, China
Qunfeng CHENG, USTC, China
Jesus GONZALEZ-JULIAN, Laboratory of Thermo-structural Composites (LCTS), France
Qing HUANG, Ningbo Inst.of Materials Technology & Engineering, China
Chong Min KOO, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Shibo LI, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Michael NAGUIB, Tulane University, USA
Valeria NICOLOSI, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Tatiana PRIKHNA, Inst. for Superhard Materials of NAS of Ukraine, Ukraine
Jochen M. SCHNEIDER, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
 

Convener:
Sanjay MATHUR, University of Cologne, Germany

Members:
Kamlendra AWASTHI, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur,  India
Daniel CHUA, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Flavio DE SOUZA, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil
Suhash DEY, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India
Armin FELDHOFF, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Olivier GUILLON, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Guo-Hua HU, University of Lorraine, France
Emanuel IONESCU, Fraunhofer IWKS, Germany
Maarit KARPPINEN, Aalto University, Finland
Kwang Ho KIM, Pusan National University, South Korea
Jing-Feng LI, Tsinghua University, China
Graziella MALANDRINO, Università di Catania, Italy
Yogendra MISHRA, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Tohru SEKINO, Osaka University, Japan
Sang Il SEOK, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Trystan WATSON, Swansea University, UK
Gunnar WESTIN, Uppsala University, Sweden
 

Convener:
Waltraud M. KRIVEN, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Members:
Cengiz BAGCI, Hitit University, Turkey
Vilma DUCMAN, ZAG Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ana FERNANDEZ-JIMENEZ, Eduardo Torroja Institute for Construction Science, Spain
Elie KAMSEU, MIPROMALO, Cameroon
Patrick KEANE, University of South Australia, Australia
Wei-Hao LEE, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
Cristina LEONELLI, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Yiannis PONTIKES, KU Leuve,n Belgium
John PROVIS, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland
Ruy A. Sa RIBEIRO, INPA, Manaus, Brazil
Sylvie ROSSIGNOL, ENSCI, France
Ana C. TRINDADE, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Juho YLINIEMI, University of Oulu, Finland
 

Convener:
Xiang Ming CHEN, Zhejiang University, China

Members:
Sheikh AKBAR, Ohio State University, USA
Masaki AZUMA, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
Ratiba BENZERGA, Université de Rennes 1, France
Dragan DAMJANOVIC, EPFL, Switzerland
Brahim DKHI,L Centrale Supelec, France
Sossina M. HAILE, Northwestern University, USA
Heli Maarit JANTUNEN, University of Oulu, Finland
Andreas KLEIN, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Jurij KORUZA, TU Graz, Austria
Pool See LEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jing-Feng LI, Tsinghua University, China
Barbara MALIC, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Alexander MICHAELIS, IKTS Fraunhofer, Germany
Liliana MITOSERIU, University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", Romania
Ian M. REANEY, The University of Sheffield, UK
Edward M. SABOLSKY, West Virginia University, USA
Xun SHI, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, China
Paula VILARINHO, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Eric WACHSMAN, University of Maryland, USA
Satoshi WADA, University of Yamanashi, Japan
Xiaohui WANG, Tsinghua University, China
John WEI, University of Toronto, Canada
Di WU, Nanjing University, China
Xiao Li ZHU, Zhejiang University, China
 

Convener:
Xiang Ming CHEN, Zhejiang University, China

Members:
DaeYong JEONG, Inha University, South Korea
Jiangyu LI, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Alois LOIDL, University of Augsburg, Germany
YoshiChika OTANI, University of Tokyo, Japan
Andrei PIMENOV, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Eckhard QUANDT, University of Kiel, Germany
Tanusri SAHA-DASGUPTA, S.N. Bose National Centre, India
Nian SUN, Corporate Research Center, Midea Group, USA
Yoshinori TOKURA, RIKEN, Japan
Evgeny Y. TSYMBAL, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Dwight VIEHLAND, Virginia Tech, USA
Kui YAO, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore
Shujun ZHANG, University of Wollongong, Australia
 

Convener:
David GINLEY, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA

Members:
Xuedong BAI, Institute of Physics, CAS, China
Pedro BARQUINHA NOVA, University Lisbon, Portugal
M. Daniel BELLET, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Marius GRUNDMANN, Universitaet Leipzig, Germany
Hideo HOSONO, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Myung-Gil KIM, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Sang Yeol LEE, Cheongju University, South Korea
Rodrigo MARTINS, CENIMAT, Portugal
Julia E. MEDVEDEVA, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Yong-Young NOH, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea
Gian-Marco RIGNANESE, Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain, Belgium
Chris G. VAN DE WALLE, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Tim VEAL, University of Liverpool, UK
Holger VON WENCKSTERN, Universitaet Leipzig, Germany
Man Hoi WONG, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
 

Convener:
Maurizio FERRARI, CNR-IFN, Italy

Members:
John BALLATO, Clemson University, USA
Wilfried BLANC, CNRS Nice, France
Jonathan BRADLEY, McMaster University, Canada
Louise BRADLEY, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Alain BRAUD, University of Caen Normandie, France
Antonio CALA' LESINA, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Xueyuan CHEN, Fujian Inst. of Research on the Structure of Matter, China
Volkmar DIEROLF, Lehigh University, USA
Guoping DONG, South China University of Technology, China
Yasufumi FUJIWARA, Ritsumeikan University & Osaka University, Japan
Oleg L. KHASANOV, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia
Anna LUKOWIAK, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Dragana MARINKOVIC, Vinca Institute, Serbia
Sergey B. MIROV, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Koji MORITA, NIMS, Japan
Dirk POELMAN, Ghent University, Belgium
Thomas RIEDL, University of Wuppertal, Germany
Giancarlo C. RIGHINI, CNR IFAC, Italy
Pier-John SAZIO, University of Southampton, UK
Vincenzo SGLAVO, University of Trento and IFN-CNR, Italy
Thi Ngoc Lam TRAN, Ghent University, Belgium
Edgar D. ZANOTTO, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil
 

Conveners:
Chiara MOLINARI, CNR-ISSMC, Italy
Alexander KARAMANOV, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria

Members:
Richard BOWMAN, Intertile Research Pty Ltd, Australia
Dolores ELICHE QUESADA, Jaen University, Spain
Ewelina KLOSEK-WAWRZYN, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Joao A. LABRINCHA, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Isabella LANCELLOTTI, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Gisele LECOMTE-NANA, University of Limoges, France
Arnaldo MORENO BERTO, Instituto de Tecnología Cerámica, Spain
Pedro MUNOZ VELASCO, International University of La Rioja, Spain
Nicolas M. RENDTORFF, CETMIC, Argentina
Oscar Jaime RESTREPO BAENA, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Maximina ROMERO, CSIC-IETCC, Spain
Cristina SILIGARDI, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Servet TURAN, Eskisehir Technical University, Turkey
Milica VASIC, Institute for Testing of Materials IMS, Serbia
 

Chairs:
Patrick GEHRE, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
Yawei LI, Wuhan University of Science & Technology, China
Victor Carlos PANDOLFELLI, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil (Convener)

Members:
Christos G. ANEZIRIS, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
Eric BLOND, University of Orleans, France
Andreas BUHR, Almatis, Germany
Emmanuel DE BILBAO, University of Orleans, France
Andrie M. GARBERS-CRAIG, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Dana GOSKI, Allied Minerals Products, USA
Dietmar GRUBER, Montanuniversitat Leoben, Austria
Erwan GUEGUEN, RHI-Magnesita, Austria
Marc HUGER, University of Limoges, France
In-Ho JUNG, Seoul National University, South Korea
Annelies MALFLIET, KU Leuven, Belgium
Carlos PAGLIOSA NETO, RHI-Magnesita, Brazil
Christopher PARR, Imerys, France
Hong PENG, Elkem Materials, Norway
Peter QUIRMBACH, University of Koblenz, Germany
Sido SINNEMA, Tata Steel, Netherlands
Christoph WOHRMEYER, Imerys, Germany
 

Conveners:
Mrityunjay SINGH, Ohio Aerospace Institute, USA (Programme Chair)
Zhengyi FU, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Dietmar KOCH, University of Augsburg, Germany
Ravi KUMAR N V, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, India
 
Members:
Rajiv ASTHANA, University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA
Csaba BALAZSI, Centre for Energy Research, Hungary
Michael C. HALBIG, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
Bernhard HEIDENREICH, German Aerospace Center, Germany
Toshihiro ISHIKAWA, Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi, Japan
Young-Wook KIM, University of Seoul, South Korea
Suresh KUMAR, Defence Materials and Stores (DMSRDE), India 
Nico LANGHOF, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Alberto ORTONA, SUPSI, Switzerland
Wei PAN, Tsinghua University, China
Sathiskumar Anusuya PONNUSAMI, University of London, UK
Diletta SCITI, CNR-ISSMC, Italy
Peter TATARKO, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Gerard L. VIGNOLES, Université de Bordeaux, France
Jingyang WANG, IMR and Liaoning Academy of Materials, China
Joanna WOJEWODA-BUDKA, Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science, Poland
 

Chair:
Xianhui CHEN, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Convener:
John WEI, University of Toronto, Canada 

Co-Organizers:
Dario DAGHERO, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Cedomir PETROVIC, Shanghai Advanced Research in Physical Sciences, China

Members:
Ariando ARIANDO, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Christian BERNHARD, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Valeria BRACCINI, CNR-SPIN, Italy
Tord CLAESON, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Nathalie P. DE LEON, Princeton University, USA
Hiroshi EISAKI, AIST, Japan
Renato GONNELLI, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Yoshihiro IWASA, RIKEN, Japan
Hechang LEI, Renmin University, China
Daniel LOSS, University of Basel, Switzerland
Marie-Aude MEASSON, Néel Institut, CNRS Grenoble, France
Masatomu MURAKAMI, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Venkat SELVAMANICKAM, University of Houston, USA
Takasada SHIBAUCHI, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Jeffery L. TALLON, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Alexey USTINOV, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Dirk VAN DER MAREL, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Joel I.J. WANG, MIT, USA
Xingjiang ZHOU, Institute of Physics, CAS, China
 

Co-Chairs:
Aldo R. BOCCACCINI, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
Cato LAURENCIN, University of Connecticut, USA
Rui L. REIS, University of Minho, Portugal
Enrica VERNE', Politecnico di Torino, Italy (Convener)
 
Members:
Luigi AMBROSIO, IPCB-CNR, Italy
Marc BOHNER, RMS Foundation, Switzerland
Guoping CHEN, NIMS-MANA, Japan
Peilin CHEN, Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Jerome CHEVALIER, INSA Lyon, France
Brian DERBY, University of Manchester, UK
Sergey V. DOROZHKIN, Moscow State University, Russia
Changyou GAO, Zhejiang University, China
Esmaiel JABBARI, University of South Carolina, USA
Ralf KOHAL, University of Freiburg, Germany
Pavel A. LEVKIN, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Jun LI, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Feng-Huei LIN, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ji Ho (Joe) PARK, KAIST, South Korea
Pier Paolo POMPA, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Kurosch REZWAN, University of Bremen, Germany
Davide F. RICCI, University of Genoa, Italy
Vladimir P. TORCHILIN, Northeastern University, USA
Giovanni VOZZI, University of Pisa, Italy
Min WANG, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Thomas J. WEBSTER, Brown University, USA & Habei University of Technology, China 
Younan XIA, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Lijie Grace ZHANG, George Washington University, USA
 

Convener:
Stefano VASSANELLI, University of Padova, Italy

Members:
Jeffrey R. CAPADONA, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Andreas HIERLEMANN, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Dion KHODAGHOLY, University of California, Irvine, USA
Guglielmo LANZANI, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
George G. MALLIARAS, University of Cambridge, UK
Jun OHTA, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Themis PRODROMAKIS, University of Edinburgh, UK
Jacob ROBINSON, Rice University, USA
Bozhi TIAN, The University of Chicago, USA