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Jättipotti Suomeen ECerS XIX 2025 konferenssista - Jackpot for Finland from the ECerS XIX 2025 conference

ECerS XIX Dresden

Euroopan Keraaminen Seura (ECerS) palkitsi useita Suomen Keraamisen Seuran tutkijoita Dresdenissä pidetyssä päätapahtumassaan ECerS XIX:ssä.

The European Ceramic Society awarded several Finnish Ceramic Society researchers in their biannual main event in ECerS XIX Dresden.

Prof. Erkki Levänen from Tampere University and Prof. Leena Hupa from Åbo Akademi were granted the prestigious ECerS Fellowship. The title of Fellow is awarded for long-term and significant work in the field of ceramic materials research. “The award of the Fellow title is a high-level recognition of personal merit, but it is naturally also a testament to the high level of Finnish ceramic research and applications. The entire research group has been involved in this work, and through projects other universities and industry are also involved,” Prof. Levänen summarizes.

Professor Leena Hupa and Professor Erkki Levänen were granted the title of Fellow at ECerS XIX in Dresden, Germany.

Dr. Erkka J. Frankberg, a Team Leader and Academy Research Fellow from Tampere University was granted the Young Scientist award of ECerS. The early career award is given every second year to a person under 40 years of age by reason of outstanding contributions to the ceramic sciences. Dr. Frankberg is best known for his pioneering research on ductile amorphous oxide ceramics and by his societal contributions as the cofounder and executive committee member of the Young Ceramists Network (YCN), which will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2026. Between 2023-2025 Frankberg supervised the YCN as the leader of the Young Ceramists and Training working group, and organized the traditional ECerS Student Speech Contest in XIX Dresden. In Dresden, Frankberg was elected to the ECerS Board of Directors for the term 2025-2027.

The Young Scientist award was presented to Erkka J. Frankberg by the ECerS president Professor Richard Todd from Oxford University.
An award lecture was given by Erkka J. Frankberg during the ECerS XIX Awards Ceremony with the topic ’Quest for room temperature ductility in ceramics’.

Dr. Antonia Ressler from Tampere University was awarded the ECerS-ACerS Joint Young Professional Award. The ECerS–ACerS Joint Young Professional Award recognizes young individuals who foster international cooperation between the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and the European Ceramic Society (ECerS).

Dr. Antonia Ressler, reciever of the ECerS–ACerS Joint Young Professional Award.

Doctoral Researcher Nonna Nurmi from Tampere University was awarded the shared 1st prize for the Best Paper Award in Open Ceramics journal’s special issue ‘Young Ceramists Leading the Future’, in recognition of the paper ‘Improved Mechanical Quality of Ceramic Vat Photopolymerization Prints by Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Extraction.”

The best paper award was handed out during the ECerS Young Ceramists Network student evening in Dresden.

Doctoral Reseacher Alireza Charmforoushan from Tampere University was awarded 3rd place in the Young Ceramists Network 2025 photo contest.

FE-SEM micrograph of flame-made β-Ca₂P₂O₇ bioceramics powder where all particles despite their differing morphologies belong to the same phase of calcium pyrophosphate; One particle, highlighted in yellow, appears to have been cut during synthesis revealing twin structures once hidden inside like children in their mother’s womb. How was she cut? Was it by the nearby red, blade-like particles, themselves of the same phase? No one knows the secrets of this microcosmos, born in fire and ruled by anarchy and crystallization!