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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Jan 30, 2026
Extended Early Bird Ends: Jul 28, 2025

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Michel Armand
CIC energiGUNE, Spain
Title: Will Update
Prof. Dr. Michel Armand earned his Ph.D from Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble in 1978. He was Director for Research at CNRS, France since 1989 and Professor at U. Montreal (1995−2004). He has pioneered the use of intercalation electrodes (1972), introduced polymer electrolytes (1978), new salts based on delocalized anions, FSI, TFSI, (1986), organic electrode materials (1996) and the carbon coating for LiFePO4 (1998). He joined CIC Energigune in 2011, and present activities include new solvating polymers for lithium and sodium, new salts and new organic and inorganic electrode materials; Michel Armand has authored > 500 publications, a H factor of 106; his work has been quoted > 95000 times.
Prof. Fei Wei
Tsinghua University, China
Title: Advances in Carbon Nanotube: Bridging Fundamental Science and Commercial Viability
Director of Beijing key lab of green chemical reaction engineering and technology, Fei Wei obtained his PhD in chemical engineering from China University of Petroleum in 1990. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Tsinghua University (China), he was appointed an associate professor in 1992 and professor of chemical engineering of Tsinghua University (China) in 1996. His scientific interests are technological applications of chemical reaction engineering, catalysis, multiphase flow, carbon nano materials, and sustainable energy. He has designed and successfully running over 30 industrial fluidized bed reactors, and authored four books and over 600 refereed publications including 4 papers in Science and Nature, with more than 67000 citations with H index 116.
Prof. Ute Kaiser
Ulm University, Germany
Title: To be confirmed.
Ute Kaiser is Senior Professor at Ulm University in the Institute for Quantum Optics and was from 2004- 2023 Head of Ulm University’s Central Facility of Materials Science Electron Microscopy. She graduated from Humboldt University Berlin, received her PhD in 1993 and her habilitation on “TEM on semiconductor quantum materials” in 2002. From 1993-2004 she was postdoc at Jena University, with extended visits at Bell Labs, Cambridge University and in Tohoku University. From 2009-2018 she was the director of the Sub-Angstrom Low-Voltage Electron Microscopy project, where she focuses on developments of low-voltage electron microscopy for application on beam-sensitive low-dimensional materials. Ute Kaiser has more than 400 publications, was 2018 „highly cited researcher“, is a frequently asked invited speaker at conferences and holds several honorary adjunct positions. Since 2021 she is the PhysicalSciences Editor for Micron.
Prof. Yong Lei
Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany
Title: Well-defined nanostructured materials for photoelectrochemical energy conversion and storage devices
Yong Lei is Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Nano-Physics at the Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany. After he got his PhD from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001, he worked in Singapore-MIT Alliance for two years as a SMA research scientist. He began working in Germany in 2003 as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. From 2006 he worked at University of Muenster as a group leader and Junior Professor. In 2011, he joined the Technical University of Ilmenau as Professor. His research focuses include template nanostructuring for energy conversion and storage, and optoelectronic applications. He has received a few prestigious European and German research funding including two European Research Council Grants. Prof. Lei is an Advisory Board Member or Associate Editor of Advanced Energy Materials, Small, Energy & Environmental Materials, InfoMat, Carbon Energy, and Science China Materials. So far, he has authored 334 SCI-indexed publications, with 24254 citations (H-index 84). Many of his papers are published in high level scientific journals in physics, chemistry and materials science, including 8 paper published in Nature-series journals, 34 papers published in journals with impact factor higher than 20, 144 papers published in journals with impact factor between 8-20.
Prof. Georg S. Duesberg
University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany
Title: Hybrid devices with 2D materials.
Prof. Georg S. Duesberg’s research is the synthesis, processing and characterization of low-dimensional structures. His research focuses on materials such as 2D Transitionsmetaldichalcogenides (TMDs), e.g. PtSe2, and carbon nanostructures. His expertise lies in particular the integration of these materials with silicon technology to create novel hybrid devices such as sensors and NEMS. Georg S. Duesberg graduated in Physical Chemistry from the University of Kassel, Germany in 1996. He researched at Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart (MPI-FKF) and Trinity College Dublin from 1997 – 2001. He gained his PhD at the University of Tübingen, Germany in 2000. From 2001 – 2007 he worked at the Infineon AG, Corporate Research Munich, and the Thin Films Department of Qimonda AG, Dresden. In 2007 Georg S. Duesberg became Principal Investigator at the Irish National Research Institute CRANN and Professor in the School of Chemistry of Trinity College Dublin. Since 2017 Prof. Duesberg has a Chair for Sensortechnologies at the Institute of Physics and is spokesman of the Centre for Integrated Sensors (SENS) at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. He has co-authored more than 300 publications with more than 50000 citations and has filed 25 patents.
Prof. Sanjay Mathur
University of Cologne, Germany
Title: Catalysts of Change: Advanced Nanomaterials Steering Health and Energy Transition
Sanjay Mathur is a Chair Professor and Director of the Institute of Inorganic Materials Chemistry at the University of Cologne in Germany. He is a Distinguished Professor at IIT Madras, India. He is also the Director of the Institute of Renewable Energy Sources at the Xian Jiao Tong University, Xian, China and a World Class University Professor at the Chonbuk University in Korea. His research interests focus on application of nanomaterials and advanced ceramics for energy technologies. He holds several patents and has authored/ co-authored over 540 original research publications (h index, 79) and has edited several books. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Electroceramics, and Editor for Nano Energy. He is an Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics. He was awarded the Honorary Doctorate of the Vilnius University in 2016. He is a Fellow of ACerS, ASM International and MRS. He was elected Fellow of the European Academy of Science in 2020 and as Foreign Fellow of National Academy of Science, India in 2021. He was awarded the Woody White Award of the Materials Research Society (MRS) in 2021 and had received the Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India (2022). He is also the recipient of the Materials Frontiers Award (2022) of the International Union of Materials Research Society (IUMRS, 2022). He has served as the President of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS, 2022-23), USA. He was recognized by the Orton Jr. Lecture (2022/23) of the ACerS. He is the Secretary of IUMRS, and he serves on the Boards of European Science Council, German Ceramic Society and German Materials Society. He was recognized with the M L Bhagat award of the Indian Ceramic Society (2024). He was elected Fellow of the European Ceramic Society (2025) and Academician of the African Academy of Science (2025).
Prof. Yun Hang Hu
Michigan Technological University, USA
Title: Materials Innovations from Nanomaterials to Superstructured Materials for Clean Energy
Prof. Yun Hang Hu holds the most prestigious title of University Professor and is the Charles and Carroll McArthur Endowed Chair Professor at Michigan Technological University. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) and the fellows of six major scientific societies (AAAS, ACS, APS, AIChE, ASM International, and RSC). He is the Editor-in-Chief of Energy Science & Engineering (a Wiley journal) and serves on the editorial advisory boards of 10 journals published by leading publishers (Nature group, Wiley, Elsevier, Springe, ACS, and RSC). Prof. Hu has published over 320 papers in prestigious journals and delivered more than 200 invited talks, including over 70 plenary or keynote presentations. He has received over 20 national and international honors and awards. Prof. Hu’s research focuses on nanomaterials and superstructured materials for sustainable energy and environment, energy devices (such as solar cells, batteries, supercapacitors, and fuel cells), catalysis (including thermal catalysis, photocatalysis, and thermo-photocatalysis), hydrogen production and storage, CO₂ and methane conversion, and the transformation of waste into valuable materials.
Prof. Joseph Poon
USA
Title: Will Update
Joseph Poon received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and performed postdoctoral work at Stanford University. He is currently the William Barton Rogers Professor of Physics and Professor of Materials Science by courtesy at University of Virginia (UVa). He has served as Chair of the Department of Physics at UVa from 2010-2018. Over the years, his research areas have included superconductivity and magnetism in metallic glasses, quasicrystals, and bulk metallic glasses. His current research focuses on experimental and computational studies of thermoelectric materials, high entropy alloys, and chiral magnetic states in magnetic thin films. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and was named Scientific American 50 for the discovery of amorphous steel. In 2020, he received the Jesse Wakefield Beams Award of the Southeastern Section of the APS. He has published over 300 papers, which resulted in more than 20,000 citations with an H index of 74.
Prof. Andrea C. Ferrari
University of Cambridge, UK
Title: Will Update Soon
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