1st place in the student speech competition of the European Ceramic Society

Abdullah Jabr, doctoral researcher at the Chair of Structural and Functional Ceramics (ISFK), won the student speech competition of the European Ceramic Society (ECerS), which was held as part of the "15th ECerS Conference for Young Scientists in Ceramics" from the 2nd to the 6th of July 2023 in Lyon, France. With his lecture "Understanding the cold sintering process of ceramics", he was able to outperform 22 other candidates. He qualified to take part in this competition by winning the national student speech competition of the Austrian Ceramic Society (AuCerS) on April 13, 2023. This is the second victory in a row that was achieved by an Austrian candidate and ISFK doctoral student. Mr. Jabr’s research focuses on new, alternative sintering processes with the aim of lowering the sintering temperature of ceramics (typically above 1000°C) to below 350°C. As a result, the energy consumption in production is significantly reduced and the combination of different materials is made possible.

We congratulate Abdullah Jabr sincerely on this great success!