The European Ceramic Society–American Ceramic Society Joint Young Professional Award recognizes individuals who foster international cooperation between the American Ceramic Society and the European Ceramic Society, in demonstration of both organizations’ commitment to work together to better serve the international ceramics community.
Nomination Process
A nomination form must be submitted and should include a statement of no more than 500 words stating the young professional’s leadership and service to further cooperation between ECerS and ACerS either over a period of several years, or highlighting service over and above expectations in a single event/activity, such as organizing a meeting, chairing a committee or task force, recruiting new members, frequently writing and/or reviewing for ECerS and ACerS publications, or promotion of both Societies’ positive interactions in the ceramics and glass community to the rest of the world. Nominee must be within 10 years of receiving his/her/their terminal degree.
The award shall be presented in alternate years at the ACerS Annual Meeting event (held in conjunction with Materials Science & Technology Conference in North America) in even years and the European Ceramic Society Biennial Meeting in odd years. The award shall consist of a complimentary registration for the event for one person, a certificate(s), and a piece of ceramic or glass artwork from the host society.
Contact
Erica Zimmerman
Ph: 614-794-5821
ezimmerman@ceramics.org
Award Winners
Antonia Ressler
Since October 2022, Dr. Ressler is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Tampere University (Finland) working on the project AffordBoneS (grant number 101062225). She is developing and personalizing affordable multi-substituted calcium phosphate based scaffolds for bone augmentation applications. This prestigious grant helps her to develop further the use of bioceramics as bone substitutes
Before her current position, Antonia Ressler was a research assistant at the University of Zagreb (Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology) from 2016 to 2022 where she studied the development of biocompatible hydroxyapatite based materials for bone tissue engineering applications (Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Hrvoje Ivanković, Croatian Science Foundation). During her PhD (successfully defended on the 13th of November 2020), she collaborated with the Center for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering at the Universitat Politehnica de Valencia (Spain) where she stayed for 2 months with an Erasmus+ program. Briefly after her PhD, Dr. Ressler received a grant from the Journal of the ECerS Trust to perform research for one month in 2021 at Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia on additive manufacturing of metalloid calcium phosphate composites doped with metal ions for bone tissue engineering applications.
Antonia Ressler has published more than 25 scientific papers so far with more than 500 citations. These impressive numbers allow Dr. Ressler to have an important h-index of 12 for her young career stage. Her research includes many collaborations from all around Europe (France, Finland, Spain and Estonia).
In addition to her scientific work, Dr. Ressler has been greatly involved as a Committee member for the Young Ceramists Network (YCN) for 4 years, from 2019 to 2023.