Awards
The ETS sponsors several awards particularly at each European Thermoelectric Conference ECT promoting education, research and developments in the field of thermoelectricity in accordance with the statues of ETS.
Open Calls for Awards
ETS Challenge
The award aims at promoting a collective effort towards critical and relevant topics in thermoelectricity. ETS announces a call for topics every year in the ETS website. The Awardee receives a plate and an invited talk at the upcoming ECT.
Best PhD Thesis
The award recognizes the best PhD thesis on thermoelectrics successfully defended in a European country. Applications by non-European scientists who defended their PhD thesis in Europe are welcome. A call for applications is announced in ETS website and the applications must be submitted every year by February 15. The Award to the best PhD thesis on thermoelectrics is a money prize of 500 euros, a plate, and an invited talk at the next ECT.
Fellowships for students to attend ETC
The fellowship will support participation to ECT of European graduate students from less wealthy research groups. A call for applications is announced in ETS website 4 months before the conference and the applications must be submitted at least 2 months before the deadline of early registrations. The fellowship covers the student’s registration only (early bird fee).
Poster Awards
Poster Awards at ECT2025
Solution-Processed PbTe Thermoelectrics with Enhanced Performance via Post-Synthetic Modification, Abayomi Lawal, Sharona Horta, Krishnendu Maji, Francesco Milillo, and Maria Ibáñez
PF of elongated bands in Full-Heusler materials, Saff E Awal Akhtar, Bhawna Sahni and Neophytos Neophytou
Unravelling grain boundary influences on electronic and lattice thermal conductivity in Mn-doped SnTe thermoelectrics, F.A. Busch, O. Balogun, G.J. Snyder, C. Scheu, E. Isotta
Improvement of Thermoelectric Performance of Mg2Si Compound by Removing Ag impurities in Si Extracted from Photovoltaic Waste, Katsumichi Hanzawa, Shinya Kato, Michihiro Kusumoto, Kengo Yamanaka, Taisuke Doi, Yasuyoshi Kurokawa, Noritaka Usami, and Takashi Itoh
Lattice Symmetry as a Key Factor Governing the Thermoelectric Properties of Cu2SnSe3-based Compounds, Arthur Wieder, Janusz Tobola, Petr Levinský, Erik Elkaim, Jaafar Ghanbaja, Gwladys Steciuk, Sylvie Migot, Pierric Lemoine, Ghouti Medjahdi, Ilayda Terzi, Bertrand Lenoir, Soufiane El Oualid, Christophe Candolfi
Computational Study of the Potential Use of Thermoelectric Generators (TEGS) for Geothermal Energy and Volcanic Monitoring in New Zealand, Irantzu Erro, Patricia Alegría, Nerea Pascual, Leyre Catalán, Miguel Araiz, Peter Murmu, John Kennedy, and David Astrain
Poster Awards at ICT/ECT2024
Six poster awards by the European Thermoelectric Society (ETS), the German Thermoelectric Society (DTG) and the Italian Thermoelectric Society (AIT), endowed with a prize money of 250 Euro each, were awarded at the ITS/ECT2024 in Krakow. The winners are:
- Jose María DOMÍNGUEZ-VÁZQUEZ, Thermoelectric efficiency of sputtered epitaxial Fe2VAl (100) and (110) thin films, Instituto de Micro y Nanotecnología, Madrid, Spain
- Sophie GUILLEMOT Impact of crystal structure on the lattice thermal conductivity of the IV-VI chalcogenides, University of Manchester, UK
- Ariel LEWANDOWSKI, Elastic, thin film thermolectric generator (TEG) produced by multisource magnetron sputtering for energy harvesting from heat exchanger waste heat, AIC S.A. Company, Gdynia Poland
- Dominique MATTLAT, Effective doping of InSb at the grain boundaries in Nb1-xTixFeSb based Half-Heusler thermoelectrics for high electrical conductivity and Seebeck coefficient, Max-Planck-Institut, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Charlotte POTERIE, Effect of implantation-induced defects on the transport properties of Scandium Nitride (ScN) thin films, Université de Poitiers, France
- Jan ZICH, General review of polycrystalline Bi2O2Se preparation, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
Poster Awards at ECT2022
An amazing reunion after two years of pandemic
18th European Conference on Thermoelectrics 14-16 September 2022
Poster Awards at ECT2022
Six poster awards by the European Thermoelectric Society (ETS), the German Thermoelectric Society (DTG) and the Italian Thermoelectric Society (AIT), endowed with a prize money of 250 Euro each, were awarded at the ECT2022 in Barcelona. The winners are:
- Shriparna Mukherjee, et al.
Aikinite systems: Ultra-low thermal conductivity for thermoelectric applications - Neetu Rani Lamba, et al.
Extracting thermal diffusivity of thermoelectric materials using micro four-point probe - Patricia Alegria, et al.
New thermoelectric generator with no moving parts nor environmental impact for high temperature geothermal energy - Amandine Duparchy, et al.
Establishing synthesis-structure-property relationships for enhanced and reproducible MgAgSb thermoelectric properties - Rachel Orenstein, et al.
Bipolar transport in Bi-Sb alloys - Álvaro Casi, et al.
Comparative of an experimental transcritical carbon dioxide refrigeration cycle working with a thermoelectric subcooler and an internal heat exchanger
- New ETS board members in 2022: Theodora Kyratsi and Marisol Martín-González were reelected
Poster Awards at ECT2018
Three poster prizes sponsored by the European Thermoelectric Society (ETS), the German Thermoelectric Society (DTG) and the Italian Thermoelectric Society (AIT) and endowed with a prize money of 500 Euro each were awarded at the ECT2018 in Caen. The winners are:
| Miguel ARAIZ – Universidad Pública de Navarra , Pamplona-Iruña / Spain | |
| Miguel Araiz: “Passive thermoelectric generator for waste heat recovery from a combustion chamber” |
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| Ruomeng HUANG – University of Southampton, Southampton / UNITED KINGDOM | |
| Ruomeng Huang, Stephen Richards, Andrew Hector, William Levason, Gill Reid, C.H. (Kees) De Groot: PDF “Thin film thermoelectric micro-generator by selective chemical vapour deposition” |
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| Felix KAISER – Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe, Dresden / GERMANY | |
| Felix Kaiser: “Synthesis, structure and thermoelectric properties of molybdenum oxides” |
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Poster Awards at ECT2017
The three EST poster prizes 2017 sponsored by the European Thermoelectric Society (ETS), the German Thermoelectric Society (DTG) and the Italian Thermoelectric Society (AIT) were awarded to:
Monika Raja THULASIMANI – Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Berlin / GERMANY
Terumasa TADANO – National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba / JAPAN
Alexey OSIPKOV – Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow / RUSSIA
Poster Awards at ECT2016
The three EST poster prizes 2016 sponsored by the European Thermoelectric Society (ETS), the German Thermoelectric Society (DTG) and the Italian Thermoelectric Society (AIT) were awarded to:
PDF Yoshiaki KINEMUCHI – Nagoya University, Nagoya / JAPAN
PDF Biplab PAUL – Linköpings Universitet / SWEDEN
PDF Fabio RICCI – Université de Liège, Liège / BELGIUM
Poster Awards at ECT2015
The three EST poster prizes 2015 sponsored by the European Thermoelectric Society (ETS), the German Thermoelectric Society (DTG) and the Italian Thermoelectric Society (AIT) were awarded to:
Florian RITTWEGER – Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle / GERMANY
Ludek JANAK – Brno University of Technology, Brno / CZECH REPUBLIC
Rabih AL RAHAL AL ORABI – Ewha Womans University, Seoul / KOREA
Poster Awards at ECT2014
The three EST poster prizes 2014 sponsored by the European Thermoelectric Society (ETS), the German Thermoelectric Society (DTG) and the Swiss Thermoelectric Society (STS) were awarded to:
Viktoriia OHORODNIICHUK – Institut Jean Lamour Nancy / FRANCE
Miguel MUÑOZ ROJO – Instituto de Microelectrónica de Madrid / SPAIN
Tatsuya SAKAMOTO – Tokyo University of Science / JAPAN
