Awards and Plenary
James I. Mueller Memorial Award
Stanley Whittingham, NECCES and Chemistry Department, Binghampton University
Title: Li Batteries: 50 Years Old and the Future Challenges for an American Based Industry

Mrityunjay Singh Bridge Building Award
Shunpei Yamazaki, Chairman and CEO of Semiconductor Energy Laboratory (SEL)
Title: Oxide ceramics LSI devices to mitigate global extreme weather due to computers in the AI era

Plenary Speaker
Steven Zinkle, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Title: High Performance Ceramics for Extreme Environments: Applications for Fission and Fusion Energy

Plenary Speaker
Silke Christiansen, Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technology and Systems – IKTS
Title: Multimodal Analytics and Data-Driven Optimization of Ceramic Composite Materials for Energy and Electronic Applications

Jubilee Global Excellence Award
Reeja Jayan, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Title: The Spark Between Fields: Emerging Materials Opportunities with Electromagnetic Control

Jubilee Global Excellence Award
Joanna Wojewoda-Budka, Director of Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science, Polish Academy of Sciences
Title: The peculiar self-assembling product phases formed via in-situ reactions

Jubilee Global Excellence Award
Fiona Spirrett, Assistant Professor at The University of Osaka’s Joining and Welding Research Institute (JWRI)
Will present in 2027

Global Young Investigator Award
Lyndsey McMillon-Brown, Research Engineer at NASA Glenn Research Center
Title: Next Generation Materials for Advanced Energy Applications





