INVITED LECTURES
14th International Ceramics Congress

Jerome CHEVALIER, INSA de Lyon, France
Frank J. CLEMENS, EMPA, Switzerland
Mari-Ann EINARSRUD, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Norway
Begona FERRARI, Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio, CSIC, Spain
Pierre-Marie GEFFROY, ENSCI-SPCTS, France
Olivier GUILLON, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
Frank KERN, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Edson R. LEITE, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil
Christophe MARTIN, CNRS, France
Joanna McKITTRICK, University of California, San Diego, USA
Laura MONTANARO, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Makio NAITO, Osaka University, Japan
Eugene A. OLEVSKY, San Diego State University, USA
Willi PABST, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
Fabrice PETIT, Belgium Ceramic Research Center, Belgium
Helen REVERON, INSA Lyon, France
Yoshio SAKKA, NIMS, Japan
Flavio Leandro SOUZA, Federal University of ABC, Brazil
Tohru SUZUKI, NIMS, Japan
Mikolaj SZAFRAN, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Satoshi TANAKA Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Kjell WIIK, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Masahiro YOSHIMURA, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Fei ZHANG, KU Leuven, Belgium
 

Sophie CASSAIGNON, Sorbonne University - UPMC, France
Olivier DURUPTHY, Sorbonne University - UPMC, France
Claude ESTOURNES, CIRIMAT, France
Gideon GRADER, Technion, Israel
Emanuel IONESCU, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Xingang LUAN, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Alexandre MAITRE, University of Limoges, France
Sylvain MARINEL, CRISMAT-ENSICAEN, France
Ken NIWA, Nagoya University, Japan
David PORTEHAULT, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Oscar Jaime RESTREPO BAENA, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Kirill RYBAKOV, Institute of Applied Physics, RAS, Russia
Joerg J. SCHNEIDER, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Vincenzo M. SGLAVO, University of Trento, Italy
Yoshiyuki SUGAHARA, Waseda University, Japan
Takashi TANIGUCHI, NIMS, Japan
Yoshimi WATANABE, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Shu YIN, Tohoku University, Japan
Xiaowei YIN, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
 

Elisa BOANINI, University of Bologna, Italy
Jin-Ho CHOY, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Qiang GUO, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Vladimir L. KATANAEV, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
David KISAILUS, University of California at Riverside, USA
Nils KROEGER, TU Dresden, Germany
Zhiqiang LI, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Ion N. MIHAILESCU, National Inst.for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Romania
Clement SANCHEZ, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Kenneth SANDHAGE, Purdue University, USA
Sudipta SEAL, University of Central Florida, USA
Dingbang XIONG, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Di ZHANG, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China
 

Hiroya ABE, Osaka University, Japan
Christophe CHAPUT, 3DCeram, France
Dorian DESCHUYTENEER, Belgian Ceramic Research Center, Belgium
Philipp GINGTER, Schunk Ingenieurkeramik GmbH, Germany
Jens GUENSTER, BAM, Germany
Johannes HOMA, Lithoz AG, Austria
Enrique JUSTE, Belgian Ceramic Research Center, Belgium
Teiichi KIMURA, Japan Fine Ceramics Center, Japan
Soshu KIRIHARA, Osaka University, Japan
Anne LERICHE, Université de Valenciennes, France
Tassilo MORITZ, IKTS Fraunhofer, Germany
Roger NARAYAN, University of North Carolina, USA
Uwe SCHEITHAUER, Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany
Nahum TRAVITZKY, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
Joachim VOGT, Fraunhofer ISC, Germany
Andrea ZOCCA, BAM, Germany
 

Florence BARAS, CNRS-Univ.Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France
Evgeny LEVASHOV, National Univ.of Sci. & Tech. "MISIS", Russia
Zulkhair MANSUROV, Institute of Combustion Problems, Kazakhstan
Alexander MUKASYAN, University of Notre Dame, USA
Osamu ODAWARA, PROSAP Inc., Japan
Roberto ORRU, University of Cagliari, Italy
Olivier POLITANO, CNRS-Univ.Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France
Alexander S. ROGACHEV, ISMAN, RAS, Russia
Gian Domenico SORARU, University of Trento, Italy
Ryuichi TOMOSHIGE, Sojo University, Japan
 

Marianne BALAT-PICHELIN, PROMES-CNRS Odeillo, France
José Daniel BIASOLI DE MELLO, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil
Michael DUGGER, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Mathias HERRMANN, Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany
Tatsuya HINOKI, Kyoto University, Japan
Xinmei HOU, University of Science & Tech. Beijing, China
Dae-Eun KIM, Yonsei University, Korea
Satoshi KITAOKA, Japan Fine Ceramics Center, Japan
Willy KUNZ, Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany
Filippo MANGOLINI, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Paul MAYRHOFER, TU Wien, Austria
Gianpietro MORAS, Fraunhofer Institute IWM, Germany
Elizabeth J. OPILA, University of Virginia, USA
Maria Isabel OSENDI/Manuel BELMONTE, Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio, CSIC, Spain
Francisco J. PEREZ TRUJILLO, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
David POERSCHKE, University of Minnesota, USA
Michael SCHNEIDER, Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany
Haijun ZHANG, Wuhan Univ.of Science and Technology, China
 

Arvind AGARWAL, Florida International University, Miami, USA
Dominique CHATAIN, CINaM-CNRS, France
Olivier DEZELLUS, University Lyon 1, France
Akio HIROSE, Osaka University, Japan
Yuichi IKUHARA, University of Tokyo, Japan
Jolanta JANCZAK-RUSCH, EMPA, Switzerland
Lars P.H. JEURGENS, EMPA, Switzerland
Jakob KUEBLER, EMPA, Switzerland
Phillip MALLINSON, AWE Plc., UK
Yoshiyuki NAGATOMO, Mitsubishi Materials Corp., Japan
Ivar E. REIMANIS, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Noritaka SAITO, Kyushu University, Japan
Dusan P. SEKULIC, University of Kentucky, USA
Sohei SUKENAGA, Tohoku University, Japan
 

Ausrine BARTASYTE, University of Bourgogne Frenche-Comté, France
Sven BARTH, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Sophie CARENCO, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Daniel CHUA, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Mauro EPIFANI, IMM-CNR Lecce, Italy
Kazuyoshi KANAMORI, Kyoto University, Japan
Aivaras KAREIVA, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Nico LOVERGINE, University of Salento, Italy
Li LU, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jordi MARTORELL / Johann TOUDERT, ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
Sanjay MATHUR, University of Cologne, Germany
Masayuki NISHI, Kyoto University, Japan
Young-Jei OH, KIST, South Korea
Noriko SAITO, NIMS, Japan
Masaki TANEMURA, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
André TEN ELSHOF, University of Twente, Netherlands
Katsuya TESHIMA, Shinshu University, Japan
Alberto VOMIERO, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
Gunnar WESTIN, Uppsala University, Sweden
Winnie WONG-NG, NIST, USA
 

Nasrin AL-NASIRI, Imperial College London, UK
Jon BINNER, University of Birmingham, UK
Donald BRENNER, North Carolina State University, USA
David CLARKE, Harvard University, USA
Ivana CVIJOVIC-ALAGIC, Institute of Nuclear Sciences "Vinca", Serbia
Jan DUSZA, Institute of Materials Research, SAS, Slovakia
Henning HEUER, Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany
Hagen KLEMM, Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany
Longbiao LI, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Dario MANARA, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Germany
Branko MATOVIC, Institute of Nuclear Sciences "Vinca", Serbia
Wei PAN, Tsinghua University, China
Tatiana PRIKHNA, Institute for Superhard Materials of NAS of Ukraine, Ukraine
Francis REBILLAT, University of Bordeaux 1, France
Michael J. REECE, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Diletta SCITI, ISTEC-CNR Faenza, Italy
Laura SILVESTRONI, ISTEC-CNR Faenza, Italy
Carolina TALLON, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Greg THOMPSON, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA
Luc VANDEPERRE / Daniel GLYMOND, Imperial College London, UK
Eugenio ZAPATA SOLVAS, Imperial College London, UK
 

Babak ANASORI, Drexel University, USA
Michel W. BARSOUM, Drexel University, USA
Thierry CABIOC'H, University of Poitiers, France
Elad CASPI, Nuclear Research Centre - Negev, Israel
Martin DAHLQVIST, Linkoping University, Sweden
Michael FARLE / Ruslan SALIKHOV, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Micah GREEN, Texas A&M University, USA
Surojit GUPTA, University of North Dakota, USA
Qing HUANG, Ningbo Inst.of Materials Technology & Engineering, China
Arni S. INGASON, Linkoping University, Sweden & Grein Research, Iceland
Takahiro ITO, Nagoya University, Japan
Anne JOULAIN, University of Poitiers, France
Sankalp KOTA, Drexel University, USA
Konstantina LAMBRINOU, SCK-CEN, Belgium
Shibo LI, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Vincent MAUCHAMP, University of Poitiers, France
Michael NAGUIB, Tulane University, USA
Thierry OUISSE, Grenoble INP, France
Per PERSSON, Linkoping University, Sweden
Miladin RADOVIC, Texas A&M University, USA
Johanna ROSEN, Linkoping University, Sweden (Keynote Speaker)
Udo SCHWINGENSCHLOGL, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
ZhengMing SUN, Southeast University, China
Sybrand VAN DER ZWAAG, Delft University, Netherlands
Jef VLEUGELS, KU Leuven, Belgium
Xiaohui WANG, Shenyang National Lab.for Materials Science, China
Jie ZHANG, Institute of Metal Research, CAS, China
 

Kyeong-Ho BAIK, Chungnam National University, South Korea
Giovanni BOLELLI, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy
Albano CAVALEIRO, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Diederik DEPLA, University of Ghent, Belgium
Per EKLUND, Linkoeping University, Sweden
Rainer GADOW, University of Stuttgart, Germany (Keynote Speaker)
Bastian GAEDIKE, Paul Horn GmbH, Germany
Holger GERDES, Fraunhofer IST, Germany
Wayne L. GLADFELTER, University of Minnesota, USA
Bertrand JODOIN, University of Ottawa, Canada
Smagul KARAZHANOV, Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), Norway
Andreas KILLINGER, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Luca LUSVARGHI, University of Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy
Peter MECHNICH, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Eugene MEDVEDOVSKI, Endurance Technologies Inc., Canada
Jae-Hyuk PARK, IONES Co., Ltd, South Korea
Helena RONKAINEN, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland
Sanjay SAMPATH, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA 
Claire TENDERO, CIRIMAT-ENSIACET, France
Constantin VAHLAS, CIRIMAT-ENSIACET, France
Robert VASSEN / Daniel MACK, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Germany
Andrey VOEVODIN, University of North Texas, USA
Ronghua WEI, Southwest Research Institute, USA
Martin WENZELBURGER, Federal-Mogul Powertrain, Germany
Aleksey YEROKHIN, University of Manchester, UK
 

Samuel BERNARD / Abhijeet LALE, CNRS, France
Enrico BERNARDO, University of Padova, Italy
Giovanni BRUNO, BAM, Germany
Paolo COLOMBO, University of Padova, Italy
Tobias FEY, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Vanesa GIL, Foundation of Hydrogen Technologies in Aragon, Spain
Urs GONZENBACH, de Cavis AG, Switzerland
Yuji IWAMOTO, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Young-Wook KIM, University of Seoul, Korea
Isabella LANCELLOTTI, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Sylvain MEILLE, MATEIS-INSA Lyon, France
Rodrigo MORENO, CSIC, Instituto de Ceramica Y Vidrio, Spain
Benoit NAIT-ALI, University of Limoges, CEC, France
Alberto ORTONA, University of Applied Sciences (SUPSI), Switzerland
Elettra PAPA, CNR-ISTEC Faenza, Italy
Friedrich RAETHER, Fraunhofer ISC, Germany
Fabrice ROSSIGNOL, Centre Européen de la Céramique (CEC), France
Michael SCHEFFLER, Magdeburg University, Germany
David S. SMITH, University of Limoges, France
In-Hyuck SONG, Korea Institute of Materials Science, South Korea
Yoshikazu SUZUKI, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Yasuaki TOKUDOME, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Ajayan VINU, University of Newcastle, Australia
Yunzi XIN, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Yuping ZENG, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, CAS, China
 

Juras BANYS, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Kyle S. BRINKMANN, Clemson University, USA
Floriana CRACIUN, CNR-ISC, Rome, Italy
Osvaldo DIEGUEZ, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Catherine DUBOURDIEU, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany
Vincenzo ESPOSITO, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Vincent GARCIA / Stephane FUSIL, CNRS/Thales, France
Takeo HYODO, Nagasaki University, Japan
Heli JANTUNEN, University of Oulu, Finland
Michael JOSSE, ICMCB-CNRS, France
Chong-Yun KANG, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Tetsuya KIDA, Kumamoto University, Japan
Do Kyung KIM, KAIST, South Korea
Jing-Feng LI, Tsinghua University, China
Fernando M.B. MARQUES, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Lane MARTIN / Josh AGAR, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Nikola NOVAK, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Mojca OTONICAR, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Tadej ROJAC, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Jungho RYU, KIMS / Dae-Yong JEONG, Inha University, South Korea
Olga A. SHILOVA, Institute of Silicate Chemistry of the RAS, Russia
Kengo SHIMANOE, Kyushu University, Japan
Evgeny Y. TSYMBAL, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Satoshi WADA, University of Yamanashi, Japan
Ken WATANABE, Kyushu University, Japan
 

Eva BENCKISER, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany
Manuel BIBES / Felix TRIER, CNRS Thales, France
Ming-Wen CHU, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Emmanuel DEFAY, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Vincenzo FIORENTINI, University of Cagliari, Italy
Cesare FRANCHINI, University of Vienna, Austria
Hiroshi KAGEYAMA / Hirashi TAKATSU, Kyoto University, Japan
Rustem KHASANOV, Paul Scherrer Institut,  Switzerland
Gertjan KOSTER, University of Twente, Netherlands
Tobias KOSUB, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V.,  Germany
Frank LECHERMANN, University of Hamburg, Germany
Jobu MATSUNO, RIKEN, Japan
Fabio MILETTO GRANOZIO, University of Naples, Italy
Rafael RAMOS, Tohoku University, Japan
Jean-Pascal RUEFF, Synchrotron Soleil, France / Charles FADLEY, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Jacobo SANTAMARIA, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Susanne STEMMER, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Atsushi TSUKAZAKI/Tsutomu NOJIMA, Tohoku University, Japan
Masaki UCHIDA, University of Tokyo, Japan
Julien VARIGNON, CNRS Thales, France
Stephen D. WILSON, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
 

John BALLATO, Clemson University, USA
Luisa E. BAUSA / Laura SANCHEZ-GARCIA, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Jonathan BRADLEY, McMaster University, Canada
Mikhail BRIK, University of Tartu, Estonia
Laurent CALVEZ, Université de Rennes 1,  France
Kevin CHEN, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Mark DUBINSKII, US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), USA
Katia GALLO, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Pawel GLUCHOWSKI, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Adrian GOLDSTEIN, Israel Ceramic and Silicate Institute, Israel
Malgorzata GUZIK, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Tindaro IOPPOLO, Southern Methodist University, USA
Oleg L. KHASANOV, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia
Isabel KINSKI, Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany
Alessandro LAURIA, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Sergey B. MIROV, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Michel MORTIER, Chimie ParisTech, France
Go OKADA, NAIST, Japan
Lora RAMUNNO / Antonino CALÀ LESINA, University of Ottawa, Canada
Jas SANGHERA / Rick (Woohong) KIM, US Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Pier SAZIO, University of Southampton, UK
Angela SEDDON, University of Nottingham, UK
Silvia SORIA, IFAC-CNR, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Marinella STRICCOLI, IPCF-CNR Bari, Italy
Pushkar TANDON, Corning Optical Communications, USA
 

Jose Luis AMOROS, Instituto de Tecnologia Ceramica (ITC), Spain
Luisa BARBIERI, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Adriano M. BERNARDIN, Santa Catarina Extreme South University, Brazil
Vilma DUCMAN, ZAG Ljubljana, Slovenia
Claudio FERONE, University Parthenope of Naples, Italy
Carlos Mauricio FONTES VIEIRA, State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dachamir HOTZA, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
Nobuaki KAMOCHI, Saga Ceramics Research Laboratory, Japan
Ferhat KARA, Anadolu University, Turkey
Alexander KARAMANOV, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Joao A. LABRINCHA, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Urska LAVRENCIC STANGAR, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Monia MONTORSI, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Marta PALACIOS, Eduardo Torroja Institute – CSIC, Spain
Elisa RAMBALDI, Centro Ceramico Bologna, Italy
Andrijana SEVER SKAPIN, Slovenian National Building and Civil Eng.Inst. (ZAG), Slovenia
Cristina SILIGARDI / Chiara FERRARI, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Isabel SOBRADOS, ICMM – CSIC, Spain
Rosa TAURINO, University of Parma, Italy
David TOBALDI, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Paolo ZANNINI, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
 

Christos G. ANEZIRIS, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
Eric BLOND, University of Orleans, France
Andreas BUHR, Almatis GmbH, Germany
Emmanuel DE BILBAO, CEMHTI, CNRS, France
Andrie M. GARBERS-CRAIG, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Patrick GEHRE, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
Harald HARMUTH / Shengli JIN, Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Austria
Shinobu HASHIMOTO, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Marc HUGER, University of Limoges, France
In-Ho JUNG, Seoul National University, South Korea
Yawei LI Wuhan, University of Science & Technology, China
Alexandra NAVROTSKY, University of California, Davis, USA
Carlos PAGLIOSA NETO, Magnesita SA, Brazil
Victor Carlos PANDOLFELLI, Univ. Federal de Sao Carlos, Brazil
Jacques POIRIER, CEMHTI-CNRS, France
Peter QUIRMBACH, ECREF and DIFK, Germany
Michel RIGAUD, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
Hatsuo TAIRA, Krosaki Harima Corporation, Japan
 

Rajiv ASTHANA, University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA
Emmanuel BARANGER, ENS Paris-Saclay, CNRS, France
Evgeny A. BOGACHEV, JSC "Kompozit", Russia
James BRAUN, CEA Saclay, France
Laifei CHENG, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Bernd CLAUSS, German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research, Germany
Monica FERRARIS, Politecnico di Torino, DISAT, Italy
Zhengyi FU, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Michael C. HALBIG, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
Toshihiro ISHIKAWA, Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi, Japan
Walter KRENKEL, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Matthias KROEDEL, ECM Engineered Ceramic Materials GmbH, Germany
Alexey KULIK, STR Group Inc. - Soft-Impact Ltd., Russia
Jacques LAMON, CNRS Ecole Normale Superieure, France
Yann LE PETITCORPS, University of Bordeaux, France
Sergei T. MILEIKO, Solid State Physics Institute, RAS, Russia
Guenter MOTZ, University of Bayreuth, Germany
De-Wei NI, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, CAS, China
Andreas NOETH, Fraunhofer HTL, Germany
Tatsuki OHJI, AIST, Japan
Herwig PETERLIK, University of Vienna, Austria
Cedric SAUDER, CEA Saclay, France
Gerard L. VIGNOLES, University of Bordeaux, France
Roland WEISS, Schunk Kohlenstofftechnik GmbH, Germany
Luca ZOLI, ISTEC-CNR Faenza, Italy