Awards
2023
19.07.2023
Shufan Wang
RWTH Aachen University
Shufan Wang gained the SPP publication award (Veröffentlichungspreis). The honored paper “Electric Current-Assisted Sintering of 8YSZ: A Comparative Study of Ultrafast High-Temperature Sintering and Flash Sintering” is available here: https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202300145
19.07.2023
Daniil Lewin
Universität Duisburg-Essen
Daniil Lewin gained the SPP publication award (Veröffentlichungspreis). The honored paper “Flash and Breakdown: Thermal Runaway and Dielectric Breakdown as Competing Mechanisms During Flash Sintering of Barium Titanate“ is available here: https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202300142)
19.07.2023
Dr. Cong Tao
Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg
Dr. Cong Tao gained the SPP publication award (Veröffentlichungspreis). The honored paper "Atomistic calculations of charged point defects at grain boundaries in SrTiO3" is available here: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.054114
31.03.2023
Prof. Dr. Oliver Gutfleisch
University of Darmstadt
The European Magnetism Association (EMA) awards every three years the Dominique Givord Award for Advancing Magnetism in Europe to an excellent Scientist, who has significantly helped to push forward magnetism research and the magnetism community in Europe.
EMA's highest award goes to Oliver Gutfleisch for Mastery of Hysteresis of magnetic materials for energy efficient technologies, including permanent magnets and magnetocaloric materials, making magnetism-based energy conversion sustainable.
For more information please visit: https://www.mawi.tu-darmstadt.de/oe/newsdetails_oe_75840.en.jsp
Congratulations!
29.03.2023
Prof. Dr. Michael J. Hoffmann
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
On March 29, Prof. Hoffmann was awarded the Seger Plaque by the German Ceramic Society (DKG) at its annual meeting (https://dkg.de/dkg/ehrungen/seger-plakette). The plaque honors personalities who have made outstanding scientific achievements in the field of ceramics.
Congratulations!
24.02.2023
Prof. Dr. Olivier Guillon
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, RWTH Aachen University
The American Ceramic Society (ACerS), the largest ceramic society in the world, recognizes dedicated members who demonstrate exceptional leadership and achievements that benefit the Society and the global ceramic community.
For his outstanding scientific achievements and mentoring of students and young professionals, Prof. Olivier Guillon has now been named an ACerS Global Ambassador.
Congratulations!
2022
Daniel Pfalzgraf
University of Freiburg, Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkstoffmechanik (IWM)
The University of Freiburg awards Daniel Pfalzgraf the Alumni Award 2022 for his Master's thesis “Deriving Macroscopic Diffusivity from a Microscopic Master Equation Approach". This thesis was supervised by Prof. Christian Elsässer.
For more information please visit: https://www.physik.uni-freiburg.de/aktuelles/preiseauszeichnungen/alumnipreis2022pfalzgraf?set_language=en
Congratulations!
October 18, 2022
Prof. Dr. Dr. Sanjay Mathur
University of Cologne
Prof. Mathur was newly seated as president of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) during the Materials Science & Technology (MS&T 22) meeting and exhibition, held October 9-12 in Pittsburgh. In the 124 years old history of the Society, he is the first President from Germany.
During his term as president, Mathur plans to “refocus and reframe” the role of international members within ACerS, with talent pool, topical diversity, and global partners serving as guiding topics for future initiatives.
“I think 2023 is going to be a turning point,” he said during the Annual Business Meeting on Monday, Oct. 10.
For more informtaion please visit: https://ceramics.org/ceramic-tech-today/acers-news/global-themes-steel-the-show-at-acers-124th-annual-meeting-at-mst22-in-pittsburgh
October 18, 2022
Prof. Dr. Olivier Guillon
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, RWTH Aachen University
Prof. Olivier Guillon, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. The certificate was presented to him at the Materials Science & Technology (MS&T 22) conference in Pittsburgh, which took place from October 9 to 12.
During the conference, Prof. Guillon spoke with other Jülich colleagues on the topic of "Unique Performance of Thermal Barrier Coatings Made of Yttria Stabilized Zirconia at Extreme Temperatures (> 1500 °C)" and on "Flash Sintering: A Paradigm Shift for Processing of Ceramics".
For more information please visit: https://www.matscitech.org/MST22
October 18, 2022
Dr. Tarini Mishra
once: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Dr. Mishra received the Best Paper Award 2021 of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society for his paper titled “Development of a processing map for safe flash sintering of Gadolinium-doped Ceria”. The selection was based on recommendations by the editors and reviewers of the journal. The award was presented at the MS&T 22 meeting in October 2022 in Pittsburgh.
Congratulations!
October 11, 2022
Prof. Dr. Dr. Sanjay Mathur
University of Cologne
Prof. Mathur, as a prestigious and influential leader in his field of research, was privileged to deliver this year's Edward Orton Jr. Memorial Lecture during Materials Science & Technology (MS&T 22) meeting and exhibition (Pittsburgh).
The title of the lecture was "Ceramic Particles for Precision Drug Delivery."
For more information please visit: https://www.matscitech.org/MST22/Special_Events/Plenary_Session/MST22/Special_Events/Plenary_Session.aspx?hkey=03a53c8f-b807-47a2-ab73-a198f7bf4b74
September 14, 2022
Dr. Tarini Mishra
once: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Dr. Mishra received the Excellence Award from Forschungszentrum Jülich for his essential insights into the development of novel electric field-assisted sintering technologies during his doctoral studies.
Since 2009, Forschungszentrum Jülich has awarded the Jülich Excellence Prize, which is endowed with 5,000 euros in each case, once a year to internationally successful young scientists whose ideas provide essential insides in their field of research and who are among the top five percent of their career stage in their respective field.
For more information please visit: https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/conferences/judocs-ceremony/exzellenzpreis
August 1, 2022
Prof. Dr. Dash Apurv
once: Forschungszentrum Jülich; now: Denmark Technical University
Dr. Apurv Dash has started as an assistant professor for ceramics at Denmark Technical University in Copenhagen from 1 August 2022. He is working in the Department of Energy Conversion and Storage: https://www.energy.dtu.dk/
He received his PhD from IEK-1 (https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/iek/iek-1) on the synthesis and processing of MAX phases and focused as a post-doc on the effect of electric fields on the sintering and creep of ceramics within the DFG priority progamm “Fields Matter”.
Congratulations and all the best for the future!
July 27, 2022
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Rheinheimer
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, RWTH Aachen University
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Rheinheimer has been appointed assistant professor for interfaces in functional ceramics at RWTH Aachen University as of June 15, 2022. There he is based at the Institute of Mineral Metallurgy and will teach in the field of ceramic materials for energy applications. Prof. Dr. Rheinheimer will continue his research in the field of interfaces in Li, H and O conducting ceramics.
February 14, 2022
Prof. Dr. Olivier Guillon
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, RWTH Aachen University
The Engineering Ceramics Division of The American Ceramic Society presents the Global Star Award to Prof. Dr. Guillon in recognition and appreciation of his substantial contribution to the success of the 2022 International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites. In particular, his role over the years on establishing the symposium on ceramics for electrochemical storage has been highlighted.
2021
December 2021
Prof. Dr. Dr. Sanjay Mathur
University of Cologne
Prof. Dr. Mathur has been elected as “Foreign Fellow” (FNA) of The National Academy of Sciences, India. His nomination was based on his distinct and successful research accomplishments and his role as a true international ambassador of science.
For more information please visit: http://nasi.nic.in/
December 2021
Prof. Dr. Dr. Sanjay Mathur
University of Cologne
Prof. Dr. Mathur was honored with the Woody White Service Award at the F21MRS. This award honors “outstanding individuals who have embodied MRS’s mission, vision and values for an egalitarian interdisciplinary community advancing materials science and technology.
For more information please visit: https://www.mrs.org/careers-advancement/awards/fall-awards/mrs-woody-white-service-award
February 17, 2021
Prof. Dr. Olivier Guillon
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, RWTH Aachen University
Prof. Dr. Guillon is elected as Fellow of the European Ceramic Society. The awarding of the certificate will take place during the XVII ECerS Conference, which will be held as a joint event with the ICC9 and Electroceramics XVIII Conferences, in Krakow (Poland) in July 2022.
For more information please visit: https://www.jara.org/en/research/energy/news/detail/ECERS-Fellow-Guillion
January 2021
Dr. Wolfgang Rheinheimer
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Dr. Rheinheimer successfully applied to the Emmy Noether program and is now leading a junior research group at IEK-1. Since 2020, his research group is working on the topic: "Interfaces in functional ceramics: a way to optimize material properties".
For more information please visit: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/435025113
2020
August 20, 2020
Prof. Dr. Martin Bram
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Ruhr-University of Bochum
Dr. Bram received the title: “adjunct professor (german: außerplanmäßiger Professor (apl.-Prof.))” from the dean of the department for Mechanical Engineering. His group works in the field of Particle-Based Processing and Sintering at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH.
For more information please visit: https://www.iw.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/iw/lehrstuhl/extern.html.de or https://www.fz-juelich.de/iek/iek-1/EN/Research/Multidisciplinary_Activities/Team_ParticleProcessing_Sintering/_node.html.
July 8, 2020
Dr. Tarini Mishra
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Dr. Mishra was honoured with the Acta Student Award for his paper "On the role of Debye temperature in the onset of flash in three oxides" in 2019 (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/acta-materialia/news/recipients-of-the-2019-acta-student-awards).
The paper (Scripta Materialia 170 (2019) 81-84) is available here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2019.05.030.
February 2020
Dr. Thomas Brede
Georg-August-University of Göttingen
Dr. Brede gained the SPP publication award (Veröffentlichungspreis). The honored paper (Scripta Materialia 178 (2020) 18-23) is available here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2019.10.048
Dr. Malte Jongmanns
University of Duisburg-Essen
Dr. Jongmanns gained the SPP publication award (Veröffentlichungspreis). The honored paper (New J. Phys., 20 (2018) 093013) is available here: https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aadd5a .
Dr. Daniel Stadler
University of Cologne
Dr. Stadler gained the SPP publication award (Veröffentlichungspreis). The honored paper (Nanoscale Adv., 1 (2019) 4290-4295) is available here: https://doi.org/10.1039/C9NA00467J.
2019
October 23, 2019
Prof. Dr. Olivier Guillon
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, RWTH Aachen University
Prof. Dr. Guillon is elected as a full member of the International Institute for the Science of Sintering (IISS).
For more information please visit: https://www.iiss-sci.org/index.php/oliver-guillon.
October 7, 2019
Prof. Dr. Olivier Guillon
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, RWTH Aachen University
O. Guillon and his colleagues F. Wakai, G. Okuma and N. Nishiyama received the best paper award 2019 for their article “Sintering forces acting among particles during sintering by grain-boundary/surface diffusion” in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society (JACerS).
The article (J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 2019; 102: 538-547) is available here: https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.15716.
September 2019
Prof. Dr. Michael J. Hoffmann
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Dr. Colsmann, Prof. Hoffmann, Dr. Wagner, Mr. Röhm, Mr. Leonhard, and Mr. Schulz received in September 2019 the Erwin Schrödinger Award of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft at the suggestion of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers for their research between disciplines on turning sunlight into electricity more efficiently.
August 15, 2019
Prof. Dr. Olivier Guillon
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, RWTH Aachen University
Prof. Dr. Guillon was admitted to the World Academy of Ceramics (class “Science”). The official induction ceremony will take place at the CIMTEC conference in Perugia (Italy) in June 2022.
The WAC was founded in 1987 as a non-profit organization that promotes progress in the field of ceramics and fosters a better understanding of the social impact and cultural interactions of the science, technology, history and art of ceramics.
For more information please visit: http://www.waceramics.org/namesnews.shtml.
April 8, 2019
Prof. Dr. Olivier Guillon
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, RWTH Aachen University
Dr. Zhou, Prof. Dr. Guillon and Prof. Dr. Vaßen received within the category “Original Research Article” the 1st Prize in Coatings 2018. The title of the Original Research Article is "Development of YSZ Thermal Barrier Coatings Using Axial Suspension Plasma Spraying".
The article (Coatings 2017, 7(8), 120) is available here: https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings7080120.
2018
May 7, 2018
Prof. Dr. Olivier Guillon
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, RWTH Aachen University
Prof. Dr. Guillon was recognized by the journal Scripta Materialia for his excellent service as reviewer with the outstanding reviewer award 2017.
January 2018
Dr. Wolfgang Rheinheimer
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Dr. Rheinheimerjoined the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette (USA) as a visiting assistant professor. For more information visit https://www.fz-juelich.de/fieldsmatter/EN/News/VisitingAssistantProfessor_Rheinheimer.html
