the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), and a Professor at the University of Tsukuba. He received his B.E. in 1978, M.E. in 1980, and Ph.D. in 1983 from Kyushu University for his work on cationic diffusion of zirconia solid solution systems, studying under Prof. Y. Oish. After receiving his Ph.D, he joined the National Research Institute for Metals (now NIMS). From 1991-92, he spent a year at the University of Washington.
His current research interests are fabricating innovative ceramics that show novel individual property and/or multi-functional properties among electric, dielectric, thermal, optical, chemical and mechanical properties through the development of nanoparticle processing. Dr. Sakka is the author or coauthor of 14 books, more than 420 original referee's papers, more than 60 review papers, and more than 50 patents (including application)

Engineering in the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. He serves as Director of the Colorado Center for Advanced Ceramics. Ivar earned a BS in Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University in 1984, a MS in Materials Science and Mineral Engineering at University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1990. He currently serves on ACerS Board of Directors. Ivar has authored or co-authored 110 refereed papers. Ivar currently has diverse research interests that include mechanical behavior of transparent materials, synthesis and processing of doped oxides and glasses, magnetometry of nanoscale ceramics for energy applications, and mechanical behavior of ceramics with unusual thermal physical properties.

Engineering in the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. He serves as Director of the Colorado Center for Advanced Ceramics. Ivar earned a BS in Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University in 1984, a MS in Materials Science and Mineral Engineering at University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1990. He currently serves on ACerS Board of Directors. Ivar has authored or co-authored 110 refereed papers. Ivar currently has diverse research interests that include mechanical behavior of transparent materials, synthesis and processing of doped oxides and glasses, magnetometry of nanoscale ceramics for energy applications, and mechanical behavior of ceramics with unusual thermal physical properties.

Engineering at University of Seoul.Young-Wook earned a B.S. in Ceramic Engineering from Yonsei University and M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Young-Wook became a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) (2016). Young-Wook has authored or co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles (46 in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society) on processing-microstructure-property relationships in bulk and porous SiC ceramics and holds about 60 issued patents in engineering and functional ceramics such as semiconductor processing parts, electrically conductive SiC ceramics, and porous SiC ceramics. His research interests include the mechanical, electrical and thermal properties of dense and porous SiC ceramics and the processing of fully ceramic microencapsulated nuclear fuels.

"La Sapienza") is Full Professor at the Centre Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Varennes (QC) Canada, where he served as Director (07/2011–03/2019). He held the Canada Research Chair (Junior) in Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials (2003–2013) and since May 2016 he holds the Canada Research Chair (Senior) in Nanostructured Materials. Since January 2014 he holds the UNESCO Chair in Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Saving and Storage. Since March 2023 he holds the Chair of Industrial Chemistry at the Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Trieste. Dr. Rosei's research interests focus on structure/property relationships in nanomaterials and their use as building blocks in emerging technologies. His research has been supported by multiple funding sources from the Province of Quebec, the Federal Government of Canada as well as international agencies, for a total in excess of M$ 18. He has worked in partnership with over twenty Canadian R&D companies. He is co-inventor of three patents and has published over 455 articles in prestigious international journals (including Science, Nature Phot., Nature Mater., Nature Chem., Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Func. Mater., Adv. En. Mat., ACS Nano, Biomaterials, etc.), which have been cited over 22,700 times (H index = 78). He has been invited to speak at over 355 international conferences (50 Keynotes, 26 Plenaries) and has given over 260 seminars and colloquia, over 60 professional development lectures and 45 public lectures in 51 countries on all inhabited continents.

Technology and M.Eng. (2010) from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. After receiving Ph.D. (2013) in materials processing from Tohoku University (TU), he continued to work as JSPS fellow in Professor Akira Kawasaki's laboratory at TU. Then he joined Professor Tatsumi Ishihara's laboratory at Kyushu University as a research fellow. Currently, he is a full-professor at Donghua University. His research focuses on the low-temperature processed ceramic composites with incorporated structural and functional performance applied for microwave absorbing, thermoelectric energy conversion, etc.