ICMCTF Graduate Student Awards – Advanced Surface Engineering Division (ASED)

2025	Gold	Silver	Bronze
		will be decided at the upcoming ICMCTF Click here to see the finalists.
2024	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Peter Pöllmann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany	Yani Sun, University of Illinois Chicago, USA	Chun Hu, Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), Vienna, Austria
			*Recognition*
			Samira Dorri, Linköping University, Sweden
2023	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Ahmed Bahr, Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), Vienna, Austria	Georg C. Gruber, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria	Bruna Nagay, University of Campinas, Brazil
2022	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Damian Holzapfel, RWTH Aachen University, Germany	Andreas Kretschmer, Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), Austria	Yvonne Moritz, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
2021	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Babak Bakhit, Linköping University, Sweden	Hoang Luong, University of Georgia, USA	Michael Meindlhumer, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
2020	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Nikola Koutná, Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), Austria	Katherine Burzynski, University of Dayton and Air Force Research Laboratory, USA	Simon Evertz, RWTH Aachen, Germany
2019	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Clarisse Furgeaud Université de Poitiers, France	Rainer Hahn Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), Austria	did not attend the ICMCTF, hence, was not awarded
2018	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Vincent Moraes Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), Austria	Barbara Putz Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria	Simone P. Rodrigues University of Coimbra, Portugal
2017	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Chia-Chu Yu National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan	Marcus Hans RWTH Aachen University, Germany	Deniz Polat-Karahan Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
2016	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Marlene Mühlbacher Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria	Nicholas R. Glavin Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA	Yuchen Yang Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, P.R. China and USA
2015	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Antonio B. Mei University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA	Christian M. Koller Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), Austria	Sebastian Velasco Calderon University of Minho – University of Coimbra, Portugal
2014	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Shiyu Liu University of Cambridge, UK	Samantha K. Lawrence Purdue University, USA	Trevor Hardcastle University of Leeds, UK
2013	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Dominik Jaeger Empa Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland	Manfred Schlögl Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien) and Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria	D’Arcy Stone Southern Illinois University, USA
2012	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Davide G. Sangiovanni Linköping University, Sweden	Jessica Krogstad University of California, Santa Barbara, USA	Moritz to Baben RWTH Aachen University, Germany
2011	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Konrad Fadenberger University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus	V.A.R. Barao University Estadual Paulista, Brazil	S.B. Wei Tsinghua University, China
2010	Gold	Gold	Gold
	Savi Abey University of Illinois at Chicago, USA	Brandon Howe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA	Richard Rachbauer Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
2009	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Florian Rovere RWTH Aachen University, Germany	Alpana Ranade Northwestern University, Evanston, USA	Naoya Fukumoto Keio University, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
2008	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Martin Moser Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria	Etienne Bousser Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, Canada	Martin Pfeiler Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
2007	Gold	Silver	Silver
	Chunming Zhou (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA)	Brandon Howe (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)	Yijun Zhang (Michigan State University, USA)
			Recognition
			Edna Cetinorgu Tel Aviv University, Israel