The European Ceramic Society
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Italy
Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche
Sezione Mineralogia applicata
Director : Prof. Alessandro F. Gualtieri
Email : alessandro.gualtieri@unimore.it
Phone : Tel. +39 059 2058480
Address : Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche Via G. Campi 103 41125 Modena
Research topics :
- Characterization of traditional ceramics: characterization of raw materials, secondary raw materials, and products such as stoneware tiles using the quantitative mineralogical analysis and laboratory technological tests.
Contact information:
Prof. Alessandro F. Gualtieri
Tel. +39 059 2058480
alessandro.gualtieri@unimore.it
- Glazes and pigments for the decoration of traditional ceramics: development of glazes and pigments for the surface decoration of single firing and stoneware tiles and their structural and microstructural characterization.
Contact information:
Prof. Alessandro F. Gualtieri
Tel. +39 059 2058480
Financial support programmes :
Contracts with private companies (e.g. BAAN, Modena; Italgraniti Group SPA, S.Martino in Rio, Modena; ESMALGLASS, Sassuolo Modena; Zetadi srl, Ferno Varese)
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.
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