The Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award shall be given to the author or authors who, in the judgment of the award committee, made the most valuable contribution to phase stability relationships in ceramic-based systems literature during the calendar year prior to the selection.
A phase equilibria article is defined as a paper, article, or report published in a technical or trade journal, or in a bulletin from a school, laboratory, technical bureau, or experimental station, or in a pamphlet or book form. It must be complete and readily available to the public.
Contact
Erica Zimmerman
ezimmerman@ceramics.org
Award Winners
André Treichel
André Treichel started his studies in geosciences at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena and graduated as Master of Science in mineralogy. His Master thesis topic was the chemical characterization of different ore deposits in Germany and Slovakia. The task was to analyze the chemical amount of elements in different minerals by using wavelength dispersive X-rays (WDX) and optical microscopy. For using WDX, he was introduced to use an Electron Probe Micro Analyzer (EPMA).
In September 2017, he started working in the department of material science in Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg. During this time, André Treichel was responsible for managing and operating an Electron Probe Micro Analyzer. As his function as the operator of the EPMA he was appropriate for chemical analyses using the WDX method. He cooperates with colleagues, universities and external companies. Furthermore, he gave lectures and organized practical courses to explain electron optical methods to students.
Scientific interest is the investigation of diffusion processes in different metal- and compound systems, e.g. Ti-Mo-Zr or TaC-TiB2.
Maria Ilatovskaia
Maria Ilatovskaia is currently a postdoctoral fellow specializing in materials thermodynamics at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (Jülich, Germany). She graduated with a diploma in non-ferrous metallurgy from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (St. Petersburg, Russia) in 2012 and received her PhD in materials science from TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Freiberg, Germany) in 2023.
Her research focus on the experimental study of phase equilibria and thermodynamic properties, as well as database development using the CALPHAD approach and thermodynamic modeling of salt and oxide systems. Dr. Ilatovskaia has authored and co-authored over 25 papers. She received the Best Oral Presentation Award at the RCCT Conference in 2015 and the RTAC Conference in 2016, as well as the Best Student Poster Award at the Calphad Conference in 2022.
Olga Fabrichnaya
Olga Fabrichnaya was born in Moscow in November 1, 1960. She graduated from Chemistry Department of Moscow State University, USSR, in 1983. First Ph.D. degree was obtained in the Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, in 1988. After getting her Ph.D. degree Olga Fabrichnaya continued working in the same institute. She moved to Uppsala, Sweden, in 1992 and started working in the Institute of Earth Sciences of Uppsala University. The second Ph.D. was obtained in Uppsala University in 1998. Her topic was thermodynamic modelling of phase relations in mineral systems at pressures and temperatures of the Earth mantle transition zone. After that Olga Fabrichnaya worked in Royal institute of Technology in Stockholm and in Max-Plank-Institute of Metal Research in Stuttgart, Germany. Her present position is project leader and lecturer in Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany. Olga Fabrichnaya defended habilitation thesis in 2020 and got a title of Private Docent. The theme of the thesis was experimental studies and thermodynamic modelling of systems related to new candidate materials for thermal barrier coating applications. Phase diagrams of ZrO2 based and rare earth containing systems were experimentally studied and thermodynamic databases were developed for them. Her scientific interests are phase equilibrium investigations, thermal analysis, calorimetry and thermodynamic modelling of oxide system. She is giving following courses to the students in Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg: Thermodynamics of Materials, Practical Aspects of Thermodynamic Analysis and Materials Chemistry. Olga Fabrichnaya is co-author of more than 200 papers published in scientific journals and book “Thermodynamic Data, Models and Phase Diagrams in Multicomponent Oxide systems.”