ICACC 2021 Award and Plenary Speakers
2021 Award Speakers
James L. Mueller Award
Monday, Feb 8
9:00 AM Eastern time
Zuhair A. Munir
Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Dean, Emeritus, College of Engineering, University of California, Davis, USA
Title: Electric field effects in the processing of materials
Bridge Building Award
Tuesday, Feb 9
9:00 AM Eastern time
Monica Ferraris
Professor of Science and Technology of Materials, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Title: Joining and integration: Building bridges between materials
2021 Plenary Speakers
Monday, Feb 8
9:40 AM Eastern time
Julia R. Greer
Ruben and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics, Medical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, USA
Title: Materials by design: Three-dimensional (3D) nano-architected meta-materials
Tuesday, Feb 8
9:40 AM Eastern time
Kazunari sasaki
Senior Vice President and Distinguished Professor, Kyushu University, Japan
Title: Ceramics for fuel cells and hydrogen energy
Monday, Feb 8
10:40 AM Eastern time
Global Young Investigator Award
Amjad Almansour, Aerospace Ceramic Materials Research Engineer in the Materials and Structures Division, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
Title: Understanding the durability of SiC based ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) for gas turbine engine hot section components
Monday, Feb 8
1:30 PM Eastern time
Engineering Ceramics Division
Jubilee Global Diversity Award
Each year, three early/mid-career women and minority professionals are selected for the Engineering Ceramics Division’s Jubilee Global Diversity Award and are invited to present at the International Conference and Exposition on Advanced Ceramics and Composites in Daytona Beach, Florida (annual meeting of the Division). The awardees are encouraged to mentor students and promote society-related activities at their institutions.
This award recognizes exceptional early- to mid-career professionals who are women and/or underrepresented minorities (based on race, ethnicity, nationality and/or geographic location) in the area of ceramic science and engineering.
Eva Hemmer
Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Chemistry, University of Ottawa, Canada
Title: Rare-earth-based opto-magnetic nanoparticles – Current trends and challenges
Jessica A. Krogstad
Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Title: Dynamic, radiation tolerant ceramics: Understanding defect mobility and microstructural evolution in ceramics subject to ion irradiation
Miki Inada
Associate Professor in the Center of Advanced Instrumental Analysis at Kyushu University, Japan
Title: Microwave effect on the synthesis of metal oxide particles by hydrothermal method