The European Ceramic Society
Officers
The ECerS President is elected by the Council for a period of two years. The President is assisted by the Executive Committee and an Advisory Group.
Members of the 2023-2025 Permanent Executive Committee :
Thomas Graule
President
Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Switzerland
Francis Cambier
Past-President
Belgian Ceramic Research Centre, Mons
Belgium
Richard Todd
President Elect
University of Oxford, Department of Materials
United Kingdom
Jon Binner
School of Metallurgy and Materials - University of Birmingham
UK
María Canillas Pérez
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spain
Andraz Kocjan
Department for Nanostructured Materials - Jožef Stefan Institute
Ljubljana - Slovenia
Zbigniew Pędzich
AGH University of Science and Technology
Poland
Erling Ringgaard
Meggitt
Denmark
Moritz von Witzleben
INMATEC Technologies GmbH
Germany
Anne Leriche
Secretary
LMCPA
France
Pavol Sajgalik
Treasurer
Slovak Academy of Sciences - Bratislava
Slovak Republic
Latest news
2025 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 3rd call!
In the frame of the 2025 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a first call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 2025 International Symposium on Green Processing for Advanced Ceramics (IGPAC 2025), organised by the Ceramic Society of Japan, from 5th to 9th October 2025 in Ise-Shima/Mie, Japan.
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust for Mobility projects is 31st August 2025!
Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of October 2025. Activities submitted for the deadline of 31st August 2025 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before November 2025.
Information
Contact us for any information: info@ecers.org - We will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible.
ECerS office
Av. Gouverneur Cornez , 4
7000 Mons
Belgium