Ceramic processing and fabrication of oxide and non-oxide materials

Development and optimization of process routes for powder processing, shaping, and densification

Sintering with a focus on microstructure development and non-conventional sintering techniques 

Mechanical, functional, and chemical characterization

2025: “Award of Excellence” for the best doctoral thesis, Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Vienna

2025: Doctoral Award of the Austrian Scientific Society for Production Engineering (ÖWGP), Leoben

2024: 1^st prize for the best paper award of the Austrian ceramic society, 12th Annual Meeting of the Austrian Ceramic Society, Leoben, Austria

2023: 1^st prize of the best presentation award of the European ceramic society, XVIIIth Conference of the European Ceramic Society, Lyon, France 

2023: 1^st Prize at the speech contest of the Annual General Meeting of the Austrian Ceramic Society (AuCERs), Leoben, Austria

2022: Marshall Plan Scholarship for a research stay at Pennsylvania State University

2021: Awarded the Rector-Platzer Ring for outstanding academic achievement, Montanuniversität Leoben

2016–2019: Excellence Scholarship of Montanuniversität Leoben in four consecutive years

Jabr, P. Supancic, R. Bermejo, Subcritical Crack Growth in Cold Sintered ZnO Ceramics, J. Eur. Ceram. Soc. 45 (2026) 117761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2025.117761.

Jabr, S.D. Škapin, S. Tominc, N. Daneu, J. König, V. Ducman, L.K. Bensa, R. Bermejo, M. Spreitzer, Enhancing densification of metakaolin-based geopolymers via the cold sintering process, Open Ceramics 24 (2025) 100863. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceram.2025.100863

Jabr, E. Ribul, D. Salamon, R. Bermejo, Understanding the lower fracture resistance of cold sintered ceramics, J. Eur. Ceram. Soc. 45 (2025) 116968. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2024.116968.

A. Jabr, N. Kuzmić, S.D. Škapin, H. Jantunen, M. Nelo, M. Spreitzer, R. Bermejo, Towards high strength SrTiO3-based composites fabricated at room temperature, J. Eur. Ceram. Soc. 44 (2024) 116782. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2024.116782.

A. Jabr, H.N. Jones, A.P. Argüelles, S. Trolier-McKinstry, C. Randall, R. Bermejo, Scaling up the cold sintering process of ceramics, J. Eur. Ceram. Soc. 43 (2023) 5319–5329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2023.04.061.

A. Jabr, J. Fanghanel, Z. Fan, R. Bermejo, C. Randall, The effect of liquid phase chemistry on the densification and strength of cold sintered ZnO, J. Eur. Ceram. Soc. 43 (2023) 1531–1541. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2022.11.071