L. E. Scriven Young Investigator Award Announcement
ISCST is proud to announce the recipient of L. E. Scriven Young Investigator award at the 22nd ISCST symposium to be Prof. Lilian Hsiao.
Lilian Hsiao is Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008 and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2014, where she received a Rackham Fellowship for her work on colloidal gels. Her postdoctoral training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was on the topic of nanoemulsion gels. She joined the faculty at North Carolina State University in 2016. Hsiao’s research program applies physicochemical principles at the microscale to understand soft matter mechanics. Her group has contributed original work in colloidal suspensions, 3D printing and soft tribology, with a particular interest in confocal rheometry to extract structure-property relationships. The group’s work has been featured in high impact journals including Physical Review Letters, Nature Materials, and Nature Communications, as well as in a number of awards, including the Society of Rheology Metzner Award, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry, the ACS Unilever Award for Outstanding Young Investigator in Soft Matter, the NSF CAREER award, and the AAAS Marion Milligan Mason Award.
L E. Scriven Young Investigator Award is given in recognition of outstanding sustained achievements or one-time breakthroughs in the area of continuous liquid film coating science and technology. The recipient(s) for this award must be forty years old or younger. The award is named after Prof. L. E. Scriven whose legacy continues in this society, even after 17 years of his passing. Prof. L. E. Scriven has always emphasized excellence in multi-faceted approaches of research and development. Prof. Hsiao is cited for her outstanding sustained achievements in uncovering corrosion protection mechanisms of epoxy coatings and engineering interfacial friction for haptic applications.
Congratulations, Lilian!
(From left to right) Dr. Kristianto Tjiptowidjojo and Prof. Tequila Harris present the L.E. Scriven Young Investigator Award to Prof. Lilian Hsiao.
Edward D. Cohen Student Travel Award Announcement
ISCST is proud to announce the winners of the Edward D. Cohen Student Travel Awards. These awards are given to students who have demonstrated strong scholarship in coating science and technology. They are intended to help students or recent graduates gain additional experience and exposure to coating science and technology research through ISCST Symposium attendance. Awardee are provided funding for hotel expenses and registrations fees. The award is named in the honor of the late Dr. Edward D. Cohen, the first president of ISCST. The awardees of the 22nd ISCST Symposium are:
David Burger, Department of Thin Film Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Presentation: Structural Optimization for Drying of Sodium Ion Battery (SIB) Electrodes
Parnian Hemmati, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Presentation: Nonisothermal Spreading of a Molten Droplet on Solid Substrates: An Experimental and Machine Learning-Based Study
Prateek Gupta, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Presentation: Coating of bilayer thin liquid films on rotating cylinders
Philipp Quarz, Department of Thin Film Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Presentation: Mass transport phenomena in decal and membrane direct coating in fuel cell CCM production
Sandro Zier, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Maine, Presentation: Vacuum coating of cellulose nanofibers onto a porous web
(Left to right) Prof. Hyun Wook Jung (Cohen Award Committee Member), Prateek Gupta, David Burger, Prof. Tequila Harris (22nd ISCST Symposium Chair), Parnian Hemmati, Philipp Quarz, Sandro Zier
22nd ISCST Symposium Poster Award Announcement
The ability to craft an effective scientific poster requires research skill, careful design, technical artistry, and an awareness of the intended audience. However, these requirements achieve just the two-dimensional message on the page. A great poster presentation reaches beyond the poster board: part sales pitch and part technical paper; a succinct “elevator speech” that can easily transition into the thick weeds of the latest scientific theories and disputes; a summary of key results that also promotes mystery to draw intrigue and fuel future collaborations. Let’s not forget, all of these skills are tested by the endurance needed to talk over a room filled with animated colleagues for multiple hours.
During the 22nd ISCST Symposium, ISCST presented two Best Poster Awards (as voted by attendees of the conference) to acknowledge the exceptional work needed to bring a great scientific poster to life. The Poster Session (Sept. 9, 2024 in Atlanta, GA) featured 24 submissions presented by student and professional researchers from National Laboratories, manufacturing industry, and domestic / international universities. ISCST celebrates the award-winning contributions from Radhika Iyer and Alexander Hoffman (more details below), and thanks all participants for a successful event!
22nd ISCST Poster Awardees
Runner-Up: Radhika Iyer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory “Mock Ink Development for Coating Processes Design: Water electrolyzer”
First Place: Alexander Hoffman, Thin Film Technology, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie. “Simultaneous Multilayer Coating for Battery Electrodes: Experiments and numerical simulations.”
Prof. Tequila Harris (left) and Dr. Eric Vandre (center-right) present ISCST Poster Awards to Alexander Hoffman (center-left) and Radhika Iyer (right)
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