Poster Awards at ECT 2025

Poster Awards at ECT 2025

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

Call for the 2025 Best PhD Thesis Award

The European Thermoelectric Society announces the call for the 2025 Best PhD Thesis Award, aimed at recognizing the best PhD thesis defended in a European country between January 1st, 2025 through December 31st, 2025. Applications by non-European scientists who defended their PhD thesis in Europe are welcome.

Applications must be submitted by February 15th, 2026 to European.Thermoelectric.Soc@gmail.com and must include (a) the PhD thesis (if in English) or an extended abstract of the thesis in English (minimum 5 pages); (b) a maximum of five peer-reviewed papers authored by the applicant and related to the thesis topics; (c) a letter of the thesis supervisor supporting the application; and (d) a cover letter describing motivations, goals, and results of the PhD thesis along with its legal and actual duration. Theses will be evaluated by three external anonymous reviewers.

The Awardee will receive a prize of 500 euros, a certificate, and will give an invited talk at ECT 2026.

ECT 2026

Join us in Edinburgh for the 22nd European Conference on Thermoelectrics from Monday 14 to Friday 18 September 2026.

Please find more information here (https://iop.eventsair.com/ect2026/).

ETS General Assembly 2025

The General Assembly of the European Thermoelectric Society is convened for September 9, 2025, at 8:30 AM at the Palais des Congrès – Centre Prouvé, 1 Pl. de la République, 54000 Nancy, France to discuss and decide according to the following agenda:

  1. Opening and Welcome by the Chair Determination of quorum
  2. Communications from the President (Annual Report)
  3. Presentation of the ETS financial statement  (Treasurer Report)
  4. Report of the financial auditors: Approval of the ETS financial statement  
  5. Discussions on the Reports
  6. Discharge of the Executive Board for the Past Fiscal Year
  7. Presentation of the new regulations for the ETS Awards  
  8. Approval of the new regulations for the ETS Awards  
  9. Composition of the ETS board following the submitted candidacies
  10. Voting and Elections
  11. Information regarding the ETS Challenge  
  12. Any other business

ETS Board Elections 2025

3 board positions of the European Thermoelectric Society (ETS) will be opened for election at the European Conference on Thermoelectrics ECT2025 in  Nancy, France from September 8 – 11, 2025.

The European Thermoelectric Society invites you to nominate your candidate(s) to the secretary by email jan.koenig@ipm.fraunhofer.de containing:

  1. Name
  2. Address
  3. Affiliation
  4. Short biographies, picture, and relationship to thermoelectric
  5. Agreement of the candidate to apply for a board position

The European Thermoelectric Society encourages the European Thermoelectricians to make every effort to attract candidates from a variety of European countries, technical fields, and institutions, to best serve the mission of the European Thermoelectric Society. Board directors are elected for a three years term and are expected to play an active role in the European Thermoelectric Society.

The current board members are: Dario Narducci (President) / Italy; Antonio Pereira Gonçalves (Vice President) Spain; Jan D. König (Secretary) / Germany; Carlo Fanculli / Italy; Eckhard Müller (Treasurer) / Germany; Marisol Martín-González / Spain; Luis Fonseca / Spain; Christophe Candolfi & Bertrand Lenoir (Chair ECT2025) / France; Theodora Kyratsi / Cyprus; / Czech Republic; Krzysztof Wojciechowski & Janusz Tobola (Chair ICT/ECT2024) / Poland;  Neophytos Neophytou / UK; Jan-Willem Bos / UK (Chair ECT2026)

The underlined members will leave the board.

The major goals (objectives) of the European Thermoelectric Society as stated in the bylaws are:

  • a) To promote cooperation and the exchange of information and ideas between individuals and groups with interest in thermoelectricity;
  • b) To organize conferences and training courses on the subject of thermoelectricity for members and other interested persons in Europe;
  • c) To encourage collaboration in thermoelectricity in applied and fundamental research in Europe;
  • d) To support and facilitate communication between industry and academics in Europe;
  • e) To represent Europe in international thermoelectricity organizations.
  • f) To award outstanding merits or achievements in the field of thermoelectricity.

Please don’t hesitate to submit your nominations. Nominations will be accepted until July 15, 2025. The election of the new ETS board members will be  organized during the ECT2025 in Nancy, France. Further details will be announced at the beginning of the conference.

On behalf of the executive ETS board

Jan D. König

The European Thermoelectric Society announces that applications are open for the 2024 Best PhD Thesis Award

The award recognizes the best PhD thesis on thermoelectrics successfully defended in a European country in 2024. Applications by non-European scientists who defended their PhD thesis in Europe are welcome. Applications must be submitted by February 15, 2025 and must include:

  1. the PhD thesis (if in English) or an extended abstract of the thesis in English (3 pages or more);
  2. peer-reviewed papers authored by the applicant and related to the thesis topics;
  3. a letter of the thesis supervisor supporting the application;
  4. a cover letter describing motivations, goals, and results of the PhD thesis.

Theses will be evaluated by three anonymous reviewers who had no collaboration with any of the candidates/tutors over the past five years. ETS retains the right not to assign the Award. The winner will be announced by April 15, 2025 on the ETS website and by e-mail to the winning applicant.

The Award to the best PhD thesis on thermoelectrics is a money prize of 500 euros, a plate, and an invited talk at ECT 2025.

Applications must be sent within the deadline of Feb. 15, 2025 to European.Thermoelectric.Soc@gmail.com as a single zip file, either as an attachment or as a link to a freely accessible cloud drive.

Full details about the regulation of the award are available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IHieGVYdAtCMSdaXsfyx9TuzTUbAWQN-/view?usp=sharing

Host selection for ETS 2026

Neophytos Neophytou and Jan-Willem Bos will host the ETS2026 at Edinburg. Stay tuned…

New ETS board 2024

Dario Narducci is the new ETS President and Antonio Pereira Goncalves the new Vice President. Jan Koenig and Eckhard Mueller are members of the executive committee as Secretary and Treasurer, respectively. Lenoir Bertrand, Christophe Cardolfi, Carlo Fanciulli, Luis Fonseca, Marisol Martin Gonzalez, Theodora Kyratsi, Neophytos Neophytou, Janusz Tobola, Krzysztof T. Wojciechowski are the members of ETS extended committee.

New ETS board members in 2022

Theodora Kyratsi and Marisol Martín-González were reelected

ECT 2022 in Barcelona

  • An amazing reunion after two years of pandemic
  • 18th European Conference on Thermoelectrics 14-16 September 2022