Not long ago, Prof. Dongliang Jiang, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, was honored with the ECD Bridge Building Award by the American Ceramic Society's Engineering Ceramics Division.  It is the first time that the ECD Bridge Building Award was given to the Chinese material scientist.

    The 33rd International Conference and Exhibition of Advanced Ceramics and Composites was held in Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S.A. from January 19th to 23rd, 2009.  Prof. Dongliang Jiang, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, was honored with the ECD Bridge Building Award by the American Ceramic Society's Engineering Ceramics Division.  The ECD Bridge Building Award is particularly given to the world-renown material scientists who have made their brilliant contributions to the world advanced engineering ceramics and composites.  Prof. Jiang was invited to make a speech entitled R&D of Advanced Ceramics Activities in China and Shanghai Institute of Ceramics Chinese Academy of Sciences, which showed the most recent progress and contributions made by SICCAS and China in the fields of advanced ceramics, transparent ceramics, nano-mesoporous materials, bio-materials, etc.  Because of the delay of the visa, Prof. Shaoming Dong, instead of Prof. Jiang, delivered the speech and won the widely recognition.  There were more than 1200 participants from all over the world taking part in the conference.

    Professor Jiang has made numerous contributions to the development of a number of advanced ceramics and composites such as translucent fine grain structure alumina, alumina based cermets, high-purity alumina cements, high strength SiC-based ceramics and composites, and SiC/Si3N4 graded and laminated composite materials. He has also developed aqueous tape casting and aqueous gel-casting based processing technologies. His current interests also include biomaterials, transparent ceramics, and nano-composites.

    Professor Jiang has devoted his life in fostering cooperation among international ceramic societies and in promoting the development of ceramic science and technology. He has served and continues to serve on the International Advisory Board of many conferences and journals from all over the world. He has served as Vice president of Chinese Material Research Society for more than 8 years. He has published more than 250 papers, 3 books and holds 18 patents. He has received ten major awards and was elected as Academician of World Academy of Ceramics, Italy in 1992.