INVITED LECTURES
15th International Ceramics Congress

Samuel BERNARD, CNRS-University of Limoges, France
Zachary CORDERO, MIT, USA
Jun FUKUSHIMA, Tohoku University, Japan
Dusan GALUSEK, University of Trencin, Slovakia
Zoilo GONZALEZ GRANADOS, University of Cordoba, Spain
Thomas GRAULE, EMPA, Switzerland
Olivier GUILLON Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
Suk-Joong L. KANG, KAIST, Korea
Thomas KONEGGER, TU Vienna, Austria
Anne LERICHE, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, UPFH, France
Jian LUO, University of California, San Diego, USA
Charles MANIERE, CRISMAT - University of Caen, France
Sylvain MARINEL, CRISMAT - University of Caen, France
Gabriela MERA, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Alexander MICHAELIS, IKTS Fraunhofer, Germany (Keynote Lecture)
Paola PALMERO / Jean-Marc TULLIANI, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Wolfgang RHEINHEIMER, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany
Ralf RIEDEL, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
Kirill RYBAKOV, Institute of Applied Physics, RAS, Russia
Vincenzo M. SGLAVO, University of Trento, Italy
Masahiro YOSHIMURA, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
 

Martin BECHTHOLD, Harvard University, USA
Christele COMBES, CNRS, INP-ENSIACET, France
Matthias EPPLE, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Thomas SCHEIBEL, University Bayreuth, Germany
 

Lars JEURGENS, Empa, Switzerland
Alexander MUKASYAN, University of Notre Dame, USA
Roberto ORRU', University of Cagliari, Italy
 

Kevin M. KNOWLES, University of Cambridge, UK
Fabrizio VALENZA, ICMATE-CNR, Italy
Klaus VAN BENTHEM, University of California at Davis, USA
 

Fadi ABDELJAWAD, Clemson University, USA (Keynote)
Boris KOZINSKY, Harvard University, USA
Jian LUO, University of California, San Diego, USA
Terayasu MIZOGUCHI, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Giovanni PIZZI / Marnik BERCX, EPFL, Switzerland
Thomas SCHREFL, Danube University Krems, Austria
Ichiro TAKEUCHI, University of Maryland, USA
Gerard L. VIGNOLES, University of Bordeaux, France (Keynote)
Chris WOLVERTON, Northwestern University, USA (Keynote)
 

Csaba BALAZSI, Centre for Energy, Budapest, Hungary
Giovanni BRUNO, BAM, Berlin, Germany
Daolun CHEN, Ryerson University, Canada
Jan DUSZA, Institute of Materials Research, SAS, Slovakia
Oriol GAVALDA-DIAZ, Imperial College London, UK
Diego GOMEZ-GARCIA, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Daniel Emil MACK, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Eugene MEDVEDOVSKI, Endurance Technologies Inc., Canada
Atsutomo NAKAMURA, Osaka University, Japan
Michael REECE, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Pavol SAJGALIK, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Junichi TATAMI, Yokohama National University, Japan
Eita TOCHIGI, University of Tokyo, Japan
 

Donald BRENNER, North Carolina State University, USA
William G. FAHRENHOLTZ, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Claudia GASPARRINI, Imperial College London, UK
Greg HILMAS, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Sam HUMPHRY-BAKER, Imperial College London, UK
Byung-Koog JANG, Kyushu University, Japan
Dietmar KOCH, University of Augsburg, Germany
Willy KUNZ, Fraunhofer-IKTS, Germany
Kang LEE, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
Laurence MAILLE, University of Bordeaux, France
Branko MATOVIC, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Tatiana PRIKHNA, Institute for Superhard Materials of NAS of Ukraine, Ukraine
Diletta SCITI, ISTEC-CNR, Italy
Laura SILVESTRONI, ISTEC-CNR, Italy
Martin STEINBRÜCK, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Peter TATARKO, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic
Christopher R. WEINBERGER, Colorado State University, USA
Luca ZOLI, CNR-ISTEC, Italy
 

Clio AZINA, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Michel BARSOUM, Drexel University, USA
Christina BIRKEL, Arizona State University, USA
El'ad CASPI, Nuclear Research Centre - Negev, Israel
Stephane CELERIER, University of Poitiers, France
Martin DAHLQVIST, Linköping University, Sweden
Veronique GAUTHIER-BRUNET, University of Poitiers, France
Jesus GONZALEZ-JULIAN, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Surojit GUPTA, University of North Dakota, USA
Takahiro ITO, Nagoya University, Japan
Vadym MOCHALIN, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA
Michael NAGUIB, Tulane University, USA
Thierry OUISSE, Grenoble INP, France
Miladin RADOVIC, Texas A&M University, USA
Johanna ROSEN, Linkoping University, Sweden
Shun SAKAIDA / Takeshi TORITA, Murata Manufacturing Co., Japan
Jochen M. SCHNEIDER, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Maxim SOKOL, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Jef VLEUGELS, KU Leuven, Belgium
 

Davide BARRECA, Padova University, Italy
Valerie DEMANGE, CNRS/Université de Rennes 1, France
Salvador ESLAVA, Imperial College London, UK
Paolo FALCARO, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Fabien GIOVANNELLI, University of Tours, France
Igor KRIVTSOV, Ulm University, Germany
Jan MACAK, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Graziella MALANDRINO, University of Catania, Italy
Samuel MARGUERON, FEMTO-ST Institute, France
Sanjay MATHUR, University of Cologne, Germany
Paola PRETE, IMM - CNR, Italy
Renata SOLARSKA, University of Warsaw, Poland
Alberto VOMIERO, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
Gunnar WESTIN, Uppsala University, Sweden
 

Hana BARANKOVA, Uppsala University, Sweden
Lutz-Michael BERGER, Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany
Giovanni BOLELLI, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Tom COYLE, University of Toronto, Canada
Michael DUGGER, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Per EKLUND / Arnaud LE FEBVRIER, Linkoeping University, Sweden
Ali ERDEMIR, Texas A&M University, USA
Robert FRANZ, University of Leoben, Austria
Mohit GUPTA, University West, Sweden
Tanvir HUSSAIN / Acacio  RINCON ROMERO, University of Nottingham, UK
Vikram JAYARAM, Indian Institute of Science, India
Shrikant JOSHI, University West Sweden
Christian KALSCHEUER, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Daniel MUMM, University of California, Irvine, USA
Jörg PATSCHEIDER, Evatec AG, Switzerland
Gobinda SAHA, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Sanjay SAMPATH, Stony Brook University, USA
Uwe SCHULZ, German Aerospace Center, Germany
Robert VASSEN, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany
Andrey A. VOEVODIN, University of North Texas, USA
Martin WEBER / Markus MEJAUSCHEK, Fraunhofer IST, Germany
Ping XIAO, The University of Manchester, UK
 

Farid AKHTAR, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
Ulf BETKE, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Tobias FEY, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Giorgia FRANCHIN, University of Padova, Italy
Gideon GRADER, Technion, Israel
Jonas GURAUSKIS, CSIC - University of Zaragoza, Spain
Valentina MEDRI, CNR - ISTEC, Italy
Sylvain MEILLE, MATEIS, INSA Lyon, France
Rodrigo MORENO, Institute of Ceramics & Glass, CSIC, Spain
Benoit NAIT-ALI, IRCER, University of Limoges, France
Dirk PENNER, ZHAW School of Engineering, Switzerland
Michael SCHEFFLER, Magdeburg University, Germany
Jorg THÖMING, University of Bremen, Germany
Michaela WILHELM, University of Bremen, Germany
 

Miguel ALGUERO, ICMM - CSIC, Spain
Harvey AMORIN, ICMM - CSIC, Spain
Masaki AZUMA, Tokyo Tech, Japan
Andreja BENČAN, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Charlotte COCHARD, University of Dundee, UK
Edmund CUSSEN, University of Sheffield, UK
Catherine ELISSALDE, CNRS, France
Anderson JANOTTI, The University of Delaware, USA
Heli Maarit JANTUNEN, University of Oulu, Finland
Martin LETZ, SCHOTT AG, Germany
Robert PULLAR, Cà Foscari University, Italy
Matjaz SPREITZER, Jozel Stefan Institute, Slovenia
 

Palani BALAYA, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Erik J. BERG, University of Uppsala, Sweden
Mario EL KAZZI, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Diana GOLODNITSKY, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Steven GREENBAUM, Hunter College of CUNY, USA
Duncan GREGORY, University of Glasgow, UK
Massimo GUARNIERI, University of Padova, Italy
Nobuhiro MATSUSHITA / Ryosuke NITTA, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Robert MESSINGER, City College New York, USA
Christian PREHAL, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Teofilo ROJO, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Sigita TRABESINGER, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Marcel WEIL, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Nae-Lih Nick WU, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
 

Scott BARNETT, Northwestern University, USA
M. Paola CARPANESE, University of Genova, Italy
Elisabeth DJURADO, LEPMI - Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France
Peter HOLTAPPELS, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Maxime HUBERT, CEA LITEN, France
Mariya IVANOVA, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Genki KOBAYASHI, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan
Aline LEON, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Xingbo LIU, West Virginia University, USA
Manfred MARTIN, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Glenn C. MATHER, Instituto de Ceramics y Vidrio, CSIC, Spain
Norbert MENZLER / Christian LENSER, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Andreas NENNING, TU Wien, Austria
Alexander K. OPITZ, TU Wien, Austria
Daria VLADIKOVA, Institute of Electrochemistry and Energy Systems, Bulgaria
 

Jean-Luc ADAM, Université de Rennes I, France
Wiebke ALBRECHT / Sara BALS, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Walter BELARDI, Universite de Lille, CNRS, France
Jonathan BRADLEY, McMaster University, Canada
Louise BRADLEY, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Pawel GLUCHOWSKI, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Tindaro IOPPOLO, New York Institute of Technology, USA
Ilka KRIEGEL, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Anna LUKOWIAK, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Guglielmo MACRELLI, Isoclima SpA, Italy
Franck MADY, University of Cote d'Azur, France
Jorge MENDEZ-RAMOS, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
Tatsuya MORI, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Marcelo NALIN, UNESP, Brazil
Pier-John SAZIO, University of Southampton, UK
Francesco SCOTOGNELLA, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Frédéric SMEKTALA, University of Burgundy, France
Silvia SORIA HUGUET / Daniele FARNESI, IFAC-CNR, Italy
Giorgio SPERANZA, CMM Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
James S. WILKINSON, University of Southampton, UK
Yiquan WU, Alfred University, USA
 

Martin ALLEN, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Pedro BARQUINHA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Jonas DEUERMEIER, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Roberto FORNARI, University of Parma, Italy
Rosario A. GERHARDT, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Geoffrey HAUTIER, Dartmouth College, USA
Wei-Cheng LEE, Binghamton University, USA
Michael LORENZ, Leipzig University, Germany
Julia E. MEDVEDEVA, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA
José MONTERO, Uppsala University, Sweden
Monica MORALES-MASIS, University of Twente, Netherlands
Hartwin PEELAERS, University of Kansas, USA
Aline ROUGIER, Institute of Solid State Chemistry Bordeaux, France
Chris G. VAN DE WALLE, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Holger von WENCKSTERN, University of Leipzig, Germany
 

Mohammad AL-ZEER, Oulu University, Finland
Enrico BERNARDO, University of Padova, Italy
Maria Chiara BIGNOZZI, Università di Bologna, Italy
Vilma DUCMAN, ZAG Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ana FERNÁNDEZ-JIMÉNEZ, IETCC - CSIC, Spain
Ines GARCÍA-LODEIRO, IETCC - CSIC, Spain
Mirja ILLIKAINEN / Priyadharshini PERUMAL, University of Oulu, Finland
Elie KAMSEU, MINRESI/MIPROMALO, Cameroon
Isabella LANCELLOTTI, University of Modena, Italy
Cristina LEONELLI, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Rui M. NOVAIS, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Elettra PAPA, ISTEC - CNR, Italy
Yiannis PONTIKES, KU Leuven, Belgium
Sylvie ROSSIGNOL, IRCER, France
Marijana SERDAR, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Isabel SOBRADOS, ICMM – CSIC, Spain
Monique TOGNONVI, Université Péléforo-Gbon-Coulibaly, Ivory Coast
Brant WALKLEY / Daniel GEDDES, University of Sheffield, UK
 

Richard BOWMAN, Intertile Research, Australia
Agenor DE NONI Jr., Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense, Brazil
Marcel ENGELS, Forschungsinstitut für Glas | Keramik (FGK), Germany
Ferenc KRISTALY, University of Miskolc, Hungary
Urska LAVRENČIČ ŠTANGAR, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Arnaldo MORENO, University Jaume I, Spain
Pedro MUÑOZ VELASCO, International University of La Rioja, Spain
Ivanka NETINGER, University of Osijek, Croatia
Luis PÉREZ VILLAREJO, University of Jaén, Spain
Elisa RAMBALDI, ITALCER Group, Italy
Cristina SILIGARDI, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
David S. SMITH, University of Limoges, France
Nicolas TESSIER-DOYEN, University of Limoges, France
Milica VASIĆ, Institute for Testing of Materials IMS, Serbia
 

Mohamed-Ramzi AMMAR, ICMN/University of Orleans, France
Damien ANDRE, University of Limoges, France
Christos G. ANEZIRIS / Patrick GEHRE, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
William CARTY, Alfred University, USA
Emmanuel DE BILBAO, IUT Orleans - GMP, France
Andrie GARBERS-CRAIG, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Dana GOSKI, Allied Minerals Products, USA
Dietmar GRUBER, Montanuniversität Leoben, Germany
Marc HUGER, European Center for Ceramics (CEC), France
Rolf LAMM, Minteq International GmdH, Germany
Annelies MALFLIET, KU Leuven, Belgium
Victor Carlos PANDOLFELLI, Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Brazil
Joohyun PARK, Hanyang University, South Korea
Hong PENG, Elkem Silicon Materials, Norway
Jacques POIRIER, CEMHTI-CNRS, University of Orleans, France
Thomas SAYET, University of Orleans, France
Hatsuo TAIRA, Okayama Ceramics Research Foundation, Japan
Patrick TASSOT, Refratechnik Steel GmbH, Germany
Christoph WOHRMEYER, Imerys Aluminates GmbH, Germany
Shaowei ZHANG, University of Exeter, UK
 

Rajiv ASTHANA, University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA
Jon BINNER, University of Birmingham, UK
Georges CHOLLON, CNRS - LCTS, France
Michael H. CINIBULK, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Bernd CLAUSS, German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research, Germany
Guillaume COUEGNAT, CNRS-LCTS, France
Monica FERRARIS, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Ralf GOLLER, University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg, Germany
Siegfried HORN / Judith MOOSBURGER-WILL, Universität Augsburg, Germany
Walter KRENKEL, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Matthias KROEDEL, ECM - Engineered Ceramic Materials GmbH, Germany
Andrea LAZZERI, University of Pisa, Italy
Jerôme ROGER, University of Bordeaux - LCTS, France
Cedric SAUDER, CEA, France
Gerard L. VIGNOLES, University of Bordeaux, France
 

Tabea ARNDT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Neven BARISIC, Vienna University of Technology, Austria & University of Zagreb, Croatia
Dario DAGHERO, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Simone DI CATALDO, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Fedor GÖMÖRY, Institute of Electrical Engineering, SAS, Slovakia
Maria IAVARONE, Temple University, SERC, USA
Erik PIATTI, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Takasada SHIBAUCHI, University of Tokyo, Japan
Wojciech TABIS, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Davor TOLI, EPFL, Switzerland
John WEI, University of Toronto, Canada