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

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

EPSRC Thermoelectric Network UK-ROADMAP published

The Thermoelectric Roadmap has been prepared by members of the EPSRC Thermoelectric Network. The contributions of the UK based members and overseas colleagues are gratefully acknowledged.

Editors are Prof. Robert Freer (University of Manchester) and Prof. Anthony Powell (University of Reading).

From the Forword:
All machines from jet engines to microprocessors generate massive amounts of waste heat, as do manufacturing processes ranging from steel to food production. Thermoelectric generators (TEGs) are solid-state devices that convert a heat flux directly into electrical power and therefore have the potential to offer a simple, compact route to power generation.
The growing concern about CO2 emissions, global warming and energy supplies over the past two decades has focussed attention on alternative, clean methods of power generation. Thermoelectric methods offer the benefit of a solid-state construction and allow the energy recovery solution to be readily adapted to the underlying process.
Applications are as diverse as automotive, marine, aerospace, medical and the Internet of Things. Thermoelectric devices can also provide effective thermal management, including microelectronics and battery conditioning in electric vehicles, and refrigeration in an all solid-state device. Solid-state thermoelectric generators have been used effectively in niche applications such as satellite missions for over 50 years. There are now considerable opportunities to use thermoelectrics in a wide variety of domestic and industrial applications, including off-grid generation of electricity. However, to exploit thermoelectrics fully as energy harvesters in the different environments requires the development of new thermoelectric materials with enhanced performance over wider temperature ranges, along with high performance modules and systems.
The UK has a growing thermoelectric community, spanning all aspects of the development supply chain from modelling to materials to engineering, with good links between academe and industry. If the UK is to reap the benefits of the initial developments there should be investment and support for a new generation of thermoelectric materials that exploits the synergies between experimental and computational expertise, novel device architectures, associated novel manufacturing and materials preparation techniques and system integration.

Further details on the EPSRC Thermoelectric Network’s webpage: thermoelectricnetwork.com/.

Venue of the 18th European Conference on Thermoelectrics (ECT2020)

The ETS board is pleased to announce that the ECT2020 will be held in Barcelona / Spain. The decicion was unveiled at the conference dinner during the 16th European Conference on Thermoelectrics in Caen / France. Dr. Luis Fonseca from the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona – the Barcelona location of the National Microelectronics Center -(IMB-CNM) will be the organizer of the conference. He also became member of the board.

The ECT2020 is scheduled for September 2020.

Mark your calendar and watch for the call for abstracts to be released at the beginning of 2020!

2018 ETS Board Elections

Three ETS board director positions had been up for election at the 16th European Conference on Thermoelectrics (ECT2018) in Caen / France on July 1-5, 2018. The successful candidates were:

  • Yuri Grin / Germany
  • Eckhard Müller / Germany
  • Dario Narducci / Italy

All candidates accepted their election. Please find the table of the new Board of Directors here.

Jan König was reappointed secretary.

Venue of the ECT2017

Three candidates (Nikosia / Cyprus, Padua / Italy, St. Petersburg / Russia,) applied for the organization of the ECT2017.

Based on the candidate’s presentations the board decided on Padua as venue for the ECT2017. Consequently, Monica Fabrizio from the CNR Istituto per l’Energetica e le Interfasi (IENI)) at Padua / Italy was appointed additional member of the board.

2016 ETS Board Elections

Due to the exiting of Jan König / Germany (Secretary), Alexander Burkov / Russia, Antoine Maignan / France, Marisol Martín-González / Spain (Chair ECT2014), Gao Min / UK and Sascha Populoh / Switzerland from the ETS board, six ETS board director positions were up for election at the 14th European Conference on Thermoelectrics held in Lisboa / Portugal on September 21-23, 2016. The successful candidates were:

  • Alexander Burkov / Russia
  • Bertrand Lenoir / France
  • Jan König / Germany
  • Antoine Maignan / France
  • Gao Min / UK
  • Peter Franz Rogl / Austria

All candidates accepted their election.

Jan König was reappointed secretary.