The European Ceramic Society

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Germany

Competence Center for Material Moisture, Karlsruhe Institute of Technolgy (KIT)

Structure-functionality relation of clays in different applications (e.g. ceramics, pozzolans, supplementary cementitous materials and geopolymers, hydraulic sealings,….), Interaction of porous mineral material with aqueous solutions

Director : Dr.-Ing. Rainer Schuhmann

Email : rainer.schuhmann@kit.edu

Address : H.-v.-Helmholtz Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen

Website : www.cmm.kit.edu

Research topics :

  • Applied mineralogy/Clay Science
    Contact information:

    Contact name : PD Dr. Katja Emmerich

    Tel :

    Email: katja.emmerich@kit.edu

  • High-frequency Technology & Sensors
    Contact information:

    Contact name : Dipl.-Ing. Franz Königer

    Tel :

    Email: franz.koeniger@kit.edu

Exceptional facilities :

  • Simultaneous thermal analysis (TG/DSC coupled with Mass spectrometer), clay laboratory

Financial support programmes :

  • European funding:
  • Regional fundings: yes
  • National fundings : yes

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.

Jul 22, 2025
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.

Jul 22, 2025

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