PRESIDENT
Xiangwu Zhang, NC State University
VICE-PRESIDENT
Frédéric Heim, ENSISA
SECRETARY
Emilie Drean, ENSISA
TREASURER
Gang Sun, UC-Davis
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Honors and Awards
Honors and Awards
Founder's Award
This award recognizes outstanding contribution to the science and technology of fibrous materials by a Member. The award is given to a professionally active scientist, regardless of age. Each award is presented in honor of a Founding Member defined as President of the Fiber Society before 1959 (inclusive) or an Honorary Member of the Society.
Founder's Award Recipients
2025 Takeshi Kikutani (in the names of John Hearle and Jiro Shimizu)
2024 Rudolf Hufenus (in the name of John Hearle)
2018 Konstantin Kornev (in name of Robert W. Work)
2014 Gregory Rutledge (in name of Stanley Backer)
2013 Xiaoming Tao (in name of Stanley Backer)
2012 Anil Netravali (in name of Wayne Sisson)
2007 Tushar Ghosh (in name of Frederick T. Pierce)
2006 Ronald Postle (in name of Stanley Backer)
2005 You-Lo Hsieh (in name of Giuliana Tesoro)
2005 James Economy (in names of Ludwig Rebenfeld and Herman F. Mark)
2004 Richard Gregory (in name of Ludwig Rebenfeld) 2003 John Hearle (in name of Stanley Backer)
2003 Menachem Lewin (in name of Ernst Kaswell)
December 2025
Distinguished Achievement in Fiber Science
The Society sponsors an Award for Distinguished Achievement in Fiber Science. This Award is presented to individuals under the age of 40 (in the year of the award) who have made significant contributions to the field. It is intended to recognize early achievement and to stimulate continuing commitment to the science, engineering and technology of fibers and fiber based products.
Distinguished Achievement Recipients
2025 Jiadeng Zhu
2024 Kun (Kelvin) Fu
2023 Dahua Shou
2019 Minglin Ma
2018 Dong Wang
2015 Xiangwu Zhang
2014 Bin Ding
2012 Tamer Uyar
2009 Weilin Xu
2005 Xungai Wang
2003 Jintu Fan
2001 Jin-lian Hu
2000 Chris Pastore
1999 Gajanan Bhat
1996 David R. Salem
1995 Prashant Desai
1994 Behnam Pourdeyhimi
1992 Steven R. Allen
1991 H. Daniel Wagner
1990 Garth Carnaby
1989 Paul Smith
1988 David S. Brookstein
1987 A.S. Abhiraman
1986 Edwin Thomas
1985 John Southern
1984 Frank Ko
1983 S. Leigh Phoenix
1982 Raymond E. Fornes
1981 John Blackwell
1980 David J. Carlsson
1979 Perry L. Grady
1977 Peter Popper
1975 John Skelton
1974 G.A.M. Butterworth
1973 John Dyer
1971 Salim M. Ibrahim
1970 Carl F. Zorowski
1969 W. Denny Freeston
1968 Ludwig Rebenfeld
1967 Robert W. Singleton
1965 Malcolm L. Williams
1964 George M. Bryant
1963 DeWitt R. Peterson
1962 Paul B. Stam
1961 Milton M. Platt
December 2025
Distinguished Service Award
This award is to recognize and honor Fiber Society Members who have made a significant impact on the Society, having provided outstanding service to the Society through exceptional short-term contributions or through sustained support of the Society.
Distinguished Service Recipients
2025 Ian Hardin
2024 Xiangwu Zhang
2018 Subhash Batra
2017 Bhuvenesh Goswami
2016 Stephen Michielsen
2015 Michael Ellison ~ Inaugural Award
December 2025
Student Paper Competition and Award
The Society sponsors a student paper competition in order to encourage participation by graduate students in the Society conference activities. The competition is open to graduate students mentored by faculty who are active Members of the Fiber Society. The competition is held annually in conjunction with the fall conference of the Fiber Society.
Student Award Winners
The purpose of the Graduate Student Research Paper Competition (GSPC) is to recognize outstanding achievement in science, technology, and applications of fibers at the graduate student level. A Call for Submissions is published in early July. Students submit full-length papers that are judged on scientific rigor and technical content, and on proper technical writing style. The GSPC Committee reviews all submissions and selects three finalists to present their papers at The Fiber Society’s Fall Conference. Oral presentations are judged by a panel selected from among the conference participants, with a winner chosen as the year’s awardee.
2025 - Jing Yang ~ Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2024 - Shaoji Wu ~ South China University of Technology
2023 - April Siying Wu ~ University of Bri�sh Columbia
2022 - Yelin Ko ~ Cornell University
2019 - Konrad Jakubowski ~ Empa
2018 - Hongyan Wu ~ Donghua University Xingchen Liu ~ University of California, Davis
2017 - Darya Asheghali ~ University of Georgia
2016 - Maike Quandt ~ Empa
2015 - Fei Wang ~ Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2014 - Duo An ~ Cornell University
2013 - Yu Gu ~ Clemson University
2012 - Xiaodan Zhang ~ Georgia Institute of Technology
2011 - Lin Shu ~ Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
2010 - Jian Kang ~ Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
2009 - Vijoya Sa ~ Clemson University
2008 - Lan Yao ~ Donghua University, China
2007 - Min Xao ~ Cornell University
2006 - Karthik Ramaratnam ~ Clemson University
2005 - Sophie Cozien-Cazuc ~ University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
2004 - Dipayan Das ~ Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic
2003 - Rita Salvado ~ Universidade Beira Interior, Portugal
2002 - Zeming Gou ~ University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2001 - D.W. Jung ~ North Carolina State University
2000 - Ravi Sura ~ Georgia Institute of Technology
1999 - Sujatha Narayan ~ Georgia Institute of Technology
1998 - Jooyong Kim ~ North Carolina State University
1997 - Prameela Susarla ~ Georgia Institute of Technology
1996 - Shalini Thadani ~ Georgia Institute of Technology
1995 - Rashi Akki ~ Georgia Institute of Technology
1994 - Ravi Ramanathan ~ University of Maryland
1993 - Rangarajan Srinivasan ~ Georgia Institute of Technology
1992 - Zong-Fu Li ~ Cornell University
1991 - Bugao Xu ~ University of Maryland, College Park Weiying Tao ~ Louisiana State University
1990 - Mary Toney ~ Cornell University Anif Saraf ~ Georgia Institute of Technology
1989 - Bruce Wade ~ Georgia Institute of Technology
1988 - Douglas Hirt ~ TRI/Princeton University
1987 - Prashant Desai ~ Georgia Institute of Technology
1986 - K.S. Seo ~ North Carolina State University
1985 - Peter Hsu ~ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
December 2025
Honorary Membership
Honorary membership in the Society may be extended to persons who have made outstanding contributions to the science or technology of fibrous materials. Honorary Members are exempt from annual dues and shall have all of the privileges of members except voting and holding office, unless they were regular members of the Society before their election to honorary membership.
Honorary Members
2020
Lubos Hes
2014
S. Haig Zeronian
2013
S. Kay Obendorf
2009
Darrell Reneker;
Pronoy K. Chatterjee
2006
Tatsuki Matsuo
2004
Stanley Ross
2002
Meredith Schoppee
2001
Moon Suh
2001
Yash Kamath
2000
Witold Zurek
1999
Bhuvenesh C. Goswami
Ernest Kaswell
1998
Sueo Kawabata
Bernard Miller
Peter Popper
Ronald Postle
Jiro Shimizu
1997
Kermit E. Duckett
Harold Hindman
Joseph E. Spruiell
1996
Robin Dent
John B. Lawson
John Skelton
1995
Hawthorne Davis
Francis Scardino
Hans-Dietrich Weigmann
1994
Subhash K. Batra
Giuliana Tesoro
1992
John W.S. Hearle
1990
Joseph Gibson
1988
T. Waller George
1987
E. Van Painter
Milton Platt
1986
Stanley Backer
1985
Ludwig Rebenfeld
1982
Paul Morgan
Kyle Ward Jr.
1980
Julian Hill
Richard T. Kropf
1975
Wayne A. Sisson
1973
Stephen Kennedy
1967
Herbert F. Schiefer
1965
Milton Harris
Herman F. Mark
1948
Fred Pierce ~ First Honorary Member
John H. Dillion ~ date unknown
Walter J. Hamburger ~ date unknown
Robert W. Work ~ date unknown
Note: Names set in italics indicate deceased members
December 2025
College of Fellows of The Fiber Society
The Society sponsors a student paper competition in order to encourage participation by graduate students in the Society conference activities. The competition is open to graduate students mentored by faculty who are active Members of the Fiber Society. The competition is held annually in conjunction with the fall conference of the Fiber Society.
Fellow of The Fiber Society Inductees
2025 • Xiangwu Zhang
December 2025
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