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

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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

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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

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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

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Jubilee Global Excellence Award

Reeja Jayan, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Title: The Spark Between Fields: Emerging Materials Opportunities with Electromagnetic Control

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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

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Jubilee Global Excellence Award

Fiona Spirrett, Assistant Professor at The University of Osaka’s Joining and Welding Research Institute (JWRI)

Will present in 2027

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Global Young Investigator Award

Lyndsey McMillon-Brown, Research Engineer at NASA Glenn Research Center

Title: Next Generation Materials for Advanced Energy Applications

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