BEST POSTER AWARDS

Every year, the 'Best Poster Awards' are presented to posters based on their content, layout, clarity of the presentation and their scientific merit.

The awards include a certificate and a book voucher from our sponsor, Springer Nature.

ACEX2026 | RHODES:

1^st Place:
MR. RAGHAV PATHAK
University of Stuttgart, Germany

POSTER:
Bio-inspired Soft Piezoelectric Micropillar Composites in Frequency-tunable Tactile Sensing
R. Pathak, S.M. Seyedpour, M. Azhdari, T. Ricken, G. Rezazadeh

2^nd Place:
MR. ABDOU KANDALAFT
University of Catania, Italy

POSTER:
Non-homogeneous Granular Micromechanic-based Numerical 2d & 3d Simulations for Ultra High-performance Fiber-Reinforced Concrete (Uhp-frc) in Compression, Tension and Three-point Bending Tests
Abdou Kandalaft, Anil Misra, Luca Placidi, Francesco Fabbrocino

ACEX2026 second place poster award winner MR. ABDOU KANDALAFT

2^nd Place:
MS. SOFIA THOMEN ROLDAN
Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Mexico

POSTER:
Development of a Myoelectric Elbow Prosthetic Module for an Adult Patient
I.A. Gómez-Ríos, S.A. Jarquín-Ramos, S. Thomen-Roldan, M.G Zurita-López, A. Moreno-Hernández, I. Soto-Ayala

ACEX2026 second place poster award winner MS. SOFIA THOMEN ROLDAN

2^nd Place:
MR. RENÉ RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA
Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico

POSTER:
Thermal Analysis of a Solar Air Heater with Different Absorber Plate Geometries using CFD
René Rodríguez-Rivera, Ignacio Carvajal-Mariscal, Hilario Terres- Peña, Sandra Chávez-Sánchez, Arturo Lizardi-Ramos, Juan Ramón Morales-Gómez, Araceli Lara-Valdivia, Alfredo Carbajal-López

ACEX2026 second place poster award winner MR. RENÉ RODRÍGUEZ RIVERA

ACEX2025 | NAPLES:

1^st Place:
MR. JULIUS CRONAU
Universität der Bundeswehr,
Germany

POSTER:
Optimizing Additively Manufactured Stochastic Lattice
Structures for Energy Absorption under Impact Loading
J. Cronau, F.Engstler

ACEX2025 first place poster award winner MR. JULIUS CRONAU

2^nd Place:
MR. ALEXANDER BUSCH
Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences,
Germany

POSTER:
Optimizing Blow Molded Packaging: Coupling Two
Optimization Schemes for Enhanced Ressource Usage
Alexander Busch, Olaf Bruch, Dirk Reith

ACEX2025 second place poster award winner MR. ALEXANDER BUSCH

ACEX2024 | BARCELONA:

BEST POSTER AWARD TO:
DR. SANGWOO KIM
Korea Institute of Materials Science,
Korea

POSTER:
Investigation on the Compressive Behavior of Lattice Structures
Fabricated using the L-PBF Process
S.W. Kim

ACEX2024 poster award winner DR. SANGWOO KIM

BEST POSTER AWARD TO:
MR. STEFANO GOZZINI
University of Brescia,
Italy

POSTER:
On the Applicability of the Load Separation Criterion to the Fracture
Characterization of Thermoplastic Elastomers
S. Gozzini, J. Agnelli, F. Bignotti, A. Rasetta, F. Baldi

ACEX2024 poster award winner MR. STEFANO GOZZINI

BEST POSTER AWARD TO:
MR. J. W. PARK
Chungnam National University,
Korea

POSTER:
Development of Polypropylene/Beeswax Composite with
Reinforced Physical Properties for Additive Manufacturing Technique
J. W. Park, J. H. Kim, J. Y. Young, and S. G. Lee