Donald R. Ulrich Award recognizes outstanding contributions in sol-gel processes made by young researchers. The Award granted in remembrance of Prof. Dr. Donald R. Ulrich is given since 1991 during the International Sol-Gel Conference.
The awardee/s will receive a diploma and a 2-years ISGS membership, and have to give award lecture at the International Sol-Gel Conference in St. Petersburg. In addition, the awardee/s will be invited to publish a paper in the Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology on the content of the award lecture (after a reviewing process).
This is the list of Ulrich awardees updated to 2025
- 1991 David Levy
- 1993 Thierry Woignier and Hervé Floch
- 1995 Florence Babonneau and Edward J. Pope
- 1997 Kazuki Nakanishi and Martin Mennig
- 1999 Toshiya Watanabe
- 2001 Giovanna Brusatin and Atsunori Matsuda
- 2003 Vadim Kessler and Philippe Belleville
- 2005 Nicola Hüsing and David Grosso
- 2007 Jean-Marie Nedelec and Kiyofumi Katagiri
- 2009 Paolo Falcaro and Robert Kreiter
- 2011 Kazuyoshi Kanamori
- 2013 Yusuke Daiko
- 2015 Go Kawamura
- 2017 Vladimir and Alexandr Vinogradov and Tim-Patrick Fellinger
- 2019 Marco Faustini
- 2021 Nataly Carolina Rosero Navarro and George Nasegawa
- 2023 Bin Cai
- 2025 Alessandra Pinna and Ran Du
