14th Global Young Investigator Forum on Sustainability
The Global Young Investigators Forum (GYIF) aims to bring together students, postdoctoral researchers, young professionals, and early career faculty from around the world to showcase their research and promote scientific discussions to identify and tackle emerging global challenges at the forefront of ceramic science and engineering research. The GYIF dedicated symposium and poster session are a platform to support networking among young professionals, fostering global cooperation to approach current and future challenges in ceramic science and technology. The Global Young Investigator Award laureate will deliver the opening keynote lecture of the symposium.
All GYIF participants will be invited to attend a private luncheon hosted by the President of the American Ceramic Society. The American Ceramic Society will also provide complimentary student registration for a select number of eligible students GYIF presenters.
This year’s GYIF seeks to promote a theme of Sustainability, a global issue to be addressed by the next generation of leaders and international cooperation. Presentations and posters should discuss how the work may address sustainability needs through various approaches.
Proposed Session Topics
- Sustainable Materials Development: Exploring renewable and eco-friendly alternatives to traditional ceramics and composites and understand their thermo-mechanical behaviors.
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of ceramic and composite products: Analyzing the environmental impacts from raw material extraction to end-of-life disposal or recycling.
- Energy and material-efficient manufacturing processes: Strategies for reducing material usage, energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions during ceramic and composite production.
- Circular economy approaches in ceramics and composites: Designing products and processes that promote reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling to minimize waste.
- Eco-design principles for ceramics and composites: Integrating sustainability considerations into the design phase to minimize environmental impacts.
- Energy harvesting for sustainable systems: Enhancing efficiency of functional materials and devices through innovations in piezoelectrics, batteries, and beyond.
- Green chemistry and sustainable synthesis methods: Utilizing environmentally benign chemicals and processes in the fabrication of ceramics and composites.
- Case studies and best practices in sustainable ceramics and composites: Showcasing successful sustainability initiatives and projects from industry and academia.
- Sustainable careers: Career development in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM), including building collaborative networks, research projects, as well as supporting diversity, maintaining work-life balance, and promoting sustainability in the field of ceramics.
Symposium Organizers
- Dong (Lilly) Liu, University of Oxford, UK
- Meelad Ranaiefar, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
- Bai Cui, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
- Daniel Oropeza, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
- Mark Du, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Fiona Spirrett, Osaka University, Japan
- Jackson Majher, Glass Coatings & Concepts LLC, USA
- James Wade-Zhu, UK Atomic Authority Agency, UK
- Nor Ezzaty Ahmad, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
- Luchao Sun, Institute of Metal Research, China
- Yuki Nakashima, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
- Ho Jin Ma, Korea Institute of Materials Science, Republic of Korea
- Stefano De la Pierre, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Points of Contact
- Dong (Lilly) Liu: dong.liu@eng.ox.ac.uk
- Meelad Ranaiefar: meelad.ranaiefar@nasa.gov
- Bai Cui: bcui@unl.edu
- Daniel Oropeza: oropeza@ucsb.edu
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