Affiliations
- Member of the International Editorial Board of Ceramics International
- Member of the Editorial Board, International Journal of Nanotechnology Associate Editor, Nanomaterials
- Associate Editor, Applied Ceramic Technology
- Member of the Inorganic Chemistry Division of IUPAC for the period 2004-2007
- Member of the Advisory Board of several International Conferences
- Member of the ECD Awards Committee of the American Ceramic Society
- Scientific Consultant to ItN Nanovation Ltd. (Saarbrücken, Germany), Innovalogy (Tampere, Finland), Henkel (Düsseldorf, Germany) and NTEC (Barcelona, Spain).
- Titular Member of the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
- Member of the External Advisory Board on Strategic Research Cluster FORME, University College Cork, Ireland
- International Expert on the Advisory Panel of the National Center for Nanostructured Materials (CSIR), Pretoria, South Africa
- Member of the Advisory Board of the German Federation of Material Research (DGM)
- Member of the ISO Working Group TC 229 on “Nomenclature in Nanotechnology”
- Chair, Engineering Ceramics Division Awards Committee, Am. Ceram. Soc.
- Organizer of several International Conferences and Symposia