The Geijsbeek award will be presented at the 16th Pacific Rim Conference on Ceramic and Glass Technology and the Glass & Optical Materials Division Meeting (GOMD 2025), Vancouver, BC, Canada May 4-9, 2025.

About the Award

The Samuel Geijsbeek PACRIM International Award honors Samuel Geijsbeek, one of the founders of The American Ceramic Society, who died in 1943. He produced the first whiteware set west of the Mississippi, manufactured the first terra cotta in the Pacific Northwest (1907), and helped found the ACerS Pacific Northwest Section.

The award recognizes individuals who are members of the Pacific Rim Conference (PACRIM) societies, for their contributions in the field of ceramics and glass technology that have resulted in significant industrial and/or academic impact, international advocacy, and visibility of the field. Industrial candidates will be evaluated based on the technology development and commercialization, and the development’s current usefulness and importance, its uniqueness, and its economic significance.

The PACRIM societies are The American Ceramic Society, Ceramic Society of Japan, Korean Ceramic Society, Chinese Ceramic Society, and Australian Ceramic Society.

Two awards are given biennially at PACRIM conferences. Recipients will be chosen from different signatory societies in each selection cycle.

The Geijsbeek Awards consists of a certificate and $1,000 honorarium (USD). Recipients are required to be present at the award ceremony. It is the practice of host Societies to offer complimentary registrations to Geijsbeek PACRIM International Award Winners.

Nomination Process

  • Candidates have to be members of at least one of the PACRIM societies. Candidate must note in the nomination which PACRIM societies they belong to.
  • Nominations must be made by someone who is a member of one of the PACRIM societies.
  • Nominations should consist of a CV of no longer than 5 pages that highlights the candidate’s achievements, plus a one page nomination letter that describes the candidate’s contributions. CVs longer than 5 pages will not be accepted.
  • Two additional letters from associates familiar with the candidate’s work may also be included in the nomination package, but they are not required. No more than two letters of support are permitted.
  • No candidate shall be selected for this award posthumously.
  • All nominations with the required documents should be emailed to Erica Zimmerman at ezimmerman@ceramics.org.

Nominations are eligible for four years (two PACRIM cycles). Unsuccessful nominations may be resubmitted after four years. Active nominations may be updated during the four years of eligibility, however the length limitations noted above must be met. Nomination deadlines occur 10 months prior to the next PACRIM meeting.

Contact

Erica Zimmerman
ezimmerman@ceramics.org

Award Winners

Jingyang Wang

Jingyang Wang

Jingyang Wang is the Distinguished Professor of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Head of the Advanced Ceramics and Composites Division at the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science and the Institute of Metal Research, CAS, China. He is also the Vice Director of Liaoning Academy of Materials. His research fields are focused on fundamental exploration and technological developments of ceramics and composites for extreme environment applications. He received many prestigious recognitions and awards, represented by Academician of Word Academy of Ceramics (WAC), Fellow of The American Ceramic Society (ACerS), Fellow of ASM International, Honorary Fellow of The European Ceramic Society, Acta Materialia Silver Medal Award, ACerS Samuel Geijsbeek PACRIM International Award, ACerS ECD Bridge Building Award, and National Leading Talent for Science and Technology Innovation (China), National Leading Talent of Young and Middle-aged Scientists (China), National/Ministry Science and Technology Progress Award (China, 2011/2010) and Liaoning Natural Sciences Award (China).

Christopher Berndt

Christopher Berndt

Professor Berndt is the Director of Surface Engineering for Advanced Materials, SEAM. He has been involved in teaching and research within the materials engineering and mechanical engineering disciplines for 45-years. He has impacted many thousands of undergraduates through his teaching, as well as some 60 graduate students and post docs.

Berndt’s research area of specialization is ‘thermal spray coatings’. He has a specific interest in qualifying the unique artifacts of these coatings in terms of mathematical distributions and relating these metrics to the coating physical and chemical properties. The outcomes of this research direction will enable input processing conditions to be fundamentally related to engineering outcomes. These relationships will lead to intelligent processing so that coating manufacture can be fully integrated into machine learning.

He has taken on leadership roles within professional societies, which includes the Presidency of ASM International and the Australian Ceramic Society. Berndt is especially proud of his students and post docs who have achieved professional prominence and earned good lives. Chris acknowledges their positive impact on his own career.

Acknowledgement: This work has been supported largely by the Australian Research Council (ARC). The ARC Training Centre in Surface Engineering for Advanced Materials, SEAM, has been funded under Award IC180100005. Additional support has derived from industrial, university and other partners.

Nomination Deadline

8/1/2024