The Laureate of the 2022 MRS-Serbia
Award for a Lasting and Outstanding Contribution to Materials Science and Engineering

Richard W. Siegel  
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, United States

Plenary lecture during the Opening Ceremony starting at 9.00 on Monday, August 29, 2022.

LOOKING BACK, MOVING FORWARD - ON SAFARI IN MATERIALS WITH GUN AND CAMERA

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines
Sir Fraser Stoddart 
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Nobel Laureate in Physics 2010 for his work on graphene

Sir Andre K. Geim 
The University of Manchester, UK
Two-dimensional emptiness and its unique properties

1. Pulickel Ajayan 
   RICE University, Houston, TX, USA
   Materials Science with 2D Atomic Layers
    

2. Anne M. Andrews 
   University of California, Los Angeles, USA
    

3. Ivan Bozovic (Božović) 
   Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY and Yale University, Connecticut, USA
   Electron liquid crystals: a Materials science minefield
    

4. Yi Cui 
   Stanford University, USA
    

5. Hamish L. Fraser 
   Center for Accelerated Maturation of Materials, Columbus, Ohio, USA
   Optimizing powder metallurgy: Solving problems with Additive Manufacturing of Ti alloys and Hot Isostatic Pressing of Ni-base superalloys

    

6. László Forró 
   Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
    

7. Horst Hahn 
   Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
   Cluster-assembled materials 

    

8. Hideo Hosono 
   Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
    

9. Yury Gogotsi 
   Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
   Two-dimensional carbides and nitrides pave the road to future technologies

    

10. Michael Graetzel 
    Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
     

11. Nicholas A. Kotov 
    University of Michigan, USA
     

12. Xiaoqing Pan  
    Irvine Materials Research Institute, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
    Probing Structure and Dynamic Behaviors of Topological Polar Solitons by Electron Microscopy

     

13. Seeram Ramakrishna 
    Centre for Nanofibers & Nanotechnology, National University of Singapore
     

14. Andrey Rogach 
    City University of Hong Kong
     

15. John A. Rogers 
    Northwestern University, USA
    Advanced Materials for Health Monitoring and Haptic Interactions
     

16. Robert Sinclair 
    Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
    Correlative imaging of mineral deposits in brain tissue of Alzheimer's Disease patients: application to the valence state of iron deposits by STEM-EELS
     

17. Samuel I. Stupp 
    Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
    Bio-Inspired Bioactive, Robotic, and Photosynthetic Hydrogels
     

18. Vladimir Torchilin 
    Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology & Nanomedicine, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
    ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING NOVEL MATERIALS FOR NANOMEDICINE
     

19. Paul S. Weiss 
    ‪University of California, Los Angeles, USA
     

20. Zhong Lin Wang 
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, USA
    The fundamental science and technology applications of triboelectric nanogenerators
     

21. Younan Xia 
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA