We are pleased to announce that the laureate of the 2021 MRS-Serbia Award for a Lasting and Outstanding Contribution to Materials Science and Engineering is Prof. Yury Gogotsi of the Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. He is awarded for his contributions to the field of non-oxide nanomaterials and specially MXene family of compounds.
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This is the decision of the MRS-Serbia Executive Board:
The Executive Board of the MRS-Serbia Presidency, at their meeting on March 13th, 2021, considered the submitted nomination for the MRS-Serbia’s 2021 Award for a Lasting and Outstanding Contribution to Materials Science and Engineering and concluded that the procedure was conducted in accordance with the Awarding Rulebook, that the Call was announced on the MRS-Serbia’s website on January 1st, 2021, and that in the stipulated period of 45 days only one nomination was submitted.
Having received the opinion from the Expert Committee members: Prof. Dragan Uskokovic (President of MRS-Serbia), Prof. Robert Sinclair (Chair of YUCOMAT Conferences International Advisory Board and as 2020 Laureate), Prof. Dejan Rakovic (Vice-President of MRS-Serbia), Dr. Slobodan Milonjic (President of the Council and Member of the Presidency of MRS-Serbia ), Prof.dr.Nenad Ignjatovic ( Member of the Presidency and Secretary General of MRS-Serbia) and Prof. Dr. Ivan Bozovic, as 2015 Laureate, Prof. Dr. Gordana Vunjak-Novaković, 2016 Laureate, Prof. Dr.Velimir Radmilović, 2017 Laureate, Prof. Dr. László Forró, 2018 Laureate and Prof. Danilo Suvorov 2019 Laureate, the Executive Board of the MRS-Serbia Presidency took the decision that Prof. Yury Gogotsi should be granted MRS-Serbia’s 2021 Award for a Lasting and Outstanding Contribution to Materials Science and Engineering.
Prof. Gogotsi was strongly supported by Prof. Dragan Uskoković, Dr. Slobodan Milonjić, Prof. Yuri Solonin, Prof. Masahiro Yoshimura, Prof. Paul Weiss, Prof. Michael W. Barsoum, Prof. Eugene A. Olevsky and Dr. Vuk Uskokovic.
Prof. Yury Gogotsi's invited plenary lecture will be presented during the Opening Ceremony of the 22nd MRS-Serbia Annual Conference YUCOMAT 2021, starting at 9.00 A.M. on Monday, August 30, 2021.
President of MRS-Serbia, Prof. Dr. Dragan Uskoković
Vice-President of MRS-Serbia, Prof. Dr. Velimir Radmilović
Vice-President of MRS-Serbia, Prof. Dr. Dejan Raković
Vice-President of MRS-Serbia, Dr. Smilja Marković
General Secretary of MRS-Serbia, Prof. Dr. Nenad Ignjatović