ECAPD 2024
Plenary Speakers

Darrell Schlom

Cornell University, USA

Darrell Schlom is the Herbert Fisk Johnson Professor of Industrial Chemistry in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University. After receiving a B.S. degree from Caltech, he did graduate work at Stanford University receiving an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering. He was then a post-doc at IBM’s research lab in Zurich, Switzerland. He has received various awards including a Humboldt Research Award, the MRS Medal, and the IOCG Frank Prize. He has published over 600 papers and 8 patents, is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, the American Vacuum Society, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering

Nicola Spaldin

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Nicola Spaldin is the Professor of Materials Theory at ETH Zurich. She is best known for developing the class of materials known as multiferroics, which combine simultaneous ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, for which she received the 2017 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science award among other honors. She is a passionate science educator, director of her department’s study program, and holder of the ETH Golden Owl Award for excellence in teaching. When not trying to make a room-temperature superconductor, she can be found playing her clarinet, or skiing or climbing in the Alps.

Jürgen Rödel

TU Darmstadt, Germany

Jürgen Rödel received a diploma in Materials Science from University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1983 and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1988 as well as a habilitation in Materials Engineering from Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH) in 1992. Since 1994 he has been working as professor at TU Darmstadt. He is also an honorary professor at USTB and currently a distinguished visiting professor at Tsinghua University (both Beijing) as well as specially appointed professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Jürgen Rödel is the author or coauthor of 315 refereed publications. Over the years his research covered sintering, mechanical properties, electrical reliability, lead-free piezoceramics and dislocation-tuned functionality. In Germany he received the highest awards by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for young (Heintz-Maier-Leibnitz prize) and for senior (Leibniz-Prize) scientists and is member of the National Academy of Science and Technology. He also received the IEEE ferroelectrics recognition award and the Sosman award of the American Ceramic Society.

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