YEFC Plenary lecture
To ensure fairness and equity in selecting our YEFC Plenarist, we launched in 2022 the 3M Plenary Lecture Competition for early-career corrosionists.
From 1 min video to the Main Stage - selection in 2 rounds:
- first-round screening, where applicants submit a 1-minute video, a CV, and a motivation letter.
From this pool of talented candidates, three finalists advance to the final round.
- in the second and final round, each finalist prepare a 3-minute video presentation showcasing their research. The winner is then chosen by a diverse jury to take the stage as the YEFC Plenarist.
Eligibility and selection process here.
Meet the YEFC PlenaristS
2024
Emilio Martínez-Pañeda
University of Oxford (UK)
"Towards a Virtual Corrosion Lab: a new generation of mechanistic, multiphysics models for pitting and stress corrosion cracking"

2023
Viacheslav "Slava" Shkirskiy
ITODYS, Université Paris Cité (France)
"Unsupervised Discovery of Corrosion Mechanisms by Optical Microscopies"

2022
Çiğdem Toparlı
Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
"Materials design for a rechargeable zinc-air battery on our way to decarbonized society"
