............................................................................. ADAIR JAMES H. Born in Indianapolis, IN, USA Pennsylvania State University, Material Science and Engineering, 249A MRL Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA Tel. +814-863-6047 Fax +814-863-9704 e-mail: [email protected] AGRAWAL DINESH K. Born on October 26, 1953, Sambhal, India Pennsylvania State University, 107 Materials Research Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA Tel. +814-863-8034 Fax +814-863-3617 e-mail: [email protected] AKEDO JUN Born on December 17, 1959, Osaka, Japan Advanced Coating Technology Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, Tsukuba Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Tel. +29-861-7228 Fax +29-861-7091 e-mail: [email protected] ...................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................. ...................................................................................................................................................... WORLD ACADEMY OF CERAMICS 1 ............................................................................. ALDINGER FRITZ Born on April 30, 1941, Marbach, Germany Max-Planck-Institut für Metallforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 3, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany Tel. +711-689-3202 Fax +711-689-3255 e-mail: [email protected] AMOROS ALBARO JOSE L. Born on February 6, 1954 Alcora (Castellón), Spain Instituto de Tecnología Cerámica, Campus Universitario Riu Sec, 12006 Castellón, Spain Tel. +964-342424 Fax +964-342425 e-mail: [email protected] ANEZIRIS CHRISTOS Born on May 5, 1969 Athens, Greece Technische Universitaet Bergaakademie Freiberg, Agricola street 17, 09599 Freiberg, Germany Tel. +3731392505 Fax +3731392419 e-mail: [email protected] ...................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................. ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 WORLD ACADEMY OF CERAMICS ............................................................................. ANTSIFEROV VLADIMIR N. Born on November 26, 1933, Vladivostok, Russia Research Centre of Powder Materials Science, 6 Professora Pozdeyeva ul., Perm 614013, Russia Tel. +3432-391119 Fax +3422-391122 e-mail: [email protected] ASANO SADAME Born on September 22, 1930, Tokyo, Japan Adviser, The Technical Association of Refractories, Japan, New Ginza Bldg., Ginza 7-3-13, Chuou-ku, Tokyo, Japan Tel. +3-3572-0705 Fax +3-3572-0175 e-mail: [email protected] BAIK SUNGGI Born on March 30, 1949, Seoul, Korea Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, San 31, Hyoja Dong, Pohang, 790-784, Korea Tel. +54-279-2132 Fax +54-279-2399 e-mail: [email protected] ...................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................. ...................................................................................................................................................... WORLD ACADEMY OF CERAMICS 3 ............................................................................. BALAYA PALANI Born on June 20, 1963, Pondicherry, India National University of Singapore, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, 9 Engineering Drive 1, Singapore 117575 Tel: +96751607 E-mail: [email protected] BALLATO JOHN Born on January 9, 1971, New York, NY, USA Clemson University, Advanced Materials Research Laboratory, 91 Technology Drive, Anderson, SC, USA Tel. +864-656-1035 Fax +864-656-1099 e-mail: [email protected] BANDO YOSHIO Born on August 3, 1947, Tokushima, Japan International Center for Young Scientists, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan Tel. +29-860-4426 Fax +29-851-6280 e-mail: [email protected] ...................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................. ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 WORLD ACADEMY OF CERAMICS ............................................................................. BANNO HISAO Born on March 24, 1935, Tokai, Japan 136 Nakayashiki, Arao-machi, Tokai-shi, Aichi, 476-0003, Japan Tel. +52-601-0641 BARINOV SERGUEI M. Born on June 13, 1945, Moscow, Russia A.A. Baikov's Institute for Metallurgy and Materials Science, RAS, Leninskij prospekt 49, Moscow, GSP-1, 119991, Russia e-mail: [email protected] BARSOUM MICHEL W. Born on January 1, 1955, Cairo, Egypt Drexel University, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 3141 Chestnut Street, Lebow-344, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA Tel. +215-895-2338 e-mail: [email protected] ...................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................. ...................................................................................................................................................... WORLD ACADEMY OF CERAMICS 5 ............................................................................. BAUMARD JEAN-FRANÇOIS Born on May 11, 1947, Chemillé (Maine et Loire), France SPCTS, SPCTS UMR CNRS 7315, Centre Europeen de la Céramique, 12 rue Atlantis, 87068 Limoges, France Tel. +673392891 e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] BEALL GEORGE Born on October 14, 1935, Montreal, Canada Corning Incorporated, SP- FR-5, Corning, NY 14831, USA Tel. +607-974-3430 Fax +607-974-3675 e-mail: [email protected] BECHER PAUL F. Born on February 13, 1941, Buffalo, NY, USA Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1 Bethel Valley Road, MS 6068, Oak Ridge, TN, USA Tel. +865-574-5157 Fax +865-574-6098 e-mail: [email protected] ...................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................. ...................................................................................................................................................... 6 WORLD ACADEMY OF CERAMICS ............................................................................. BEDNORZ J. GEORG Born on May 16, 1950, Neuenkirchen, Germany IBM Research GmbH, Zurich Research Laboratory, Säumerstrasse 4, P.O. Box, CH-8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland Tel. +1-724-8111 Fax +1-724-8956 e-mail: [email protected] BERGSTROM LENNART Born on December 11, 1959, Pitea, Sweden Dept. of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden Tel. +8 162368 Fax +8 152187 e-mail: [email protected] BERUTO DARIO T. Born on November 16, 1940, Savona, Italy Istituto di Ingegneria e Scienza dei Materiali, Università degli Studi di Genova, Piazzale J.F. Kennedy, Fiera del Mare - Pad. D, 16129 Genova, Italy Tel. +010-3536039 Fax +010-3536034 e-mail: [email protected] ...................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................. ...................................................................................................................................................... WORLD ACADEMY OF CERAMICS 7 ............................................................................. BEST SERENA M. Born on January 24, 1964, UK University of Cambridge, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ, UK Tel. +1223 334307 Fax +1223 334567 e-mail: [email protected] BHALLA AMAR S. Born on July 8, 1943, India University of Texas, ECE-COE, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA Tel. +814 308 4552 e-mail: [email protected] BITTENCOURT PAULO RODOLPHO H.M. Born on August 14, 1933, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Magnesita S.A., Praça Louis Ensch, 240 - Cidade Industrial, 32210-050 Contagem, MG, Brazil Tel. +31-3368-1120 or 1125 Fax +31-3333-1261 e-mail: [email protected] ...................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................. ...................................................................................................................................................... 8 WORLD ACADEMY OF CERAMICS ............................................................................. BOCCACCINI ALDO R. Born on September 2, 1962, San Rafael, Argentina University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute of Biomaterials, Cauerstr. 6, 91058 Erlangen, Germany Tel. +9131-8528601 Fax +9131-8528602 e-mail: [email protected] BORDIA RAJENDRA K. Born on September 24, 1957, Jodhpur,