Name: LEAPS meets Advanced Materials for Energy Conference 2025
Start: 2025-05-18T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-05-23T10:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

Sunday, 18 May
- 17:00 → 19:00
  
  Registration
- 19:00 → 22:00
  
  Welcome and conference dinner at the hotel
Monday, 19 May
- 08:25 → 08:35
  Welcome
  
  Conveners: Dr Jakub Drnec , Prof. Jakub Szlachetko
  - 08:25
    
    Jakub Szlachetko 5m
  - 08:30
    
    Jakub Drnec 5m
- 08:35 → 10:30
  Photovoltaics, wind power, thermoelectrics
  
  Bernd Rech
  Vera Steinmann
  Chris Milne
  
  Conveners: Prof. Bernd Rech , Dr Christopher Milne , Dr Vera Steinmann
  - 08:40
    
    Prof. Bernd Rech - Materials Challenges of Solar Energy Conversion and Storage: From a Photon Source Perspective Towards Next Generation Applications 40m
    
    Photovoltaics, wind power, thermoelectrics
  - 09:20
    
    Dr Vera Steinmann - Photovoltaics: from Lab to Scale 40m
    
    First Solar (Industry)
  - 10:00
    
    Dr Christopher Milne -Probing ultrafast structural and electronic dynamics in advanced materials using X-ray free electron lasers 30m
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee Break
- 11:00 → 12:20
  Nuclear technologies, Fusion materials, metallurgy
  
  Conveners: Dr Jan-Luc Béchade , Dr Myrtille Hunault
  - 11:00
    
    Dr. Jean-Luc Béchade - Synchrotron source to analyse materials for nuclear applications, focus on zirconium-based alloys fuel cladding of Pressurized Water Reactors. 40m
  - 11:40
    
    Dr Myrtille Hunault - MARS beamline: a unique facility for the characterization of highly radioactive samples from the nuclear fuel cycle 40m
- 12:20 → 12:30
  
  Poster Clips
- 12:30 → 15:00
  
  Lunch
- 15:00 → 16:30
  
  Discussion table
  
  Convener: Jakub Drnec
- 16:30 → 17:00
  
  Coffee Break
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Poster session
- 19:30 → 21:30
  
  Diner
Tuesday, 20 May
- 08:30 → 10:30
  Power-to-X and back
  
  Conveners: John Bøgild Hansen , Prof. Peter Wasserscheid , Prof. Rebecca Pittkowski
  - 08:30
    
    Prof. Rebecca Pittkowski - Hydrogen and Beyond: Operando insights into electrocatalysts for Power-to-X 40m
    
    Power-to-X and back
  - 09:10
    
    Prof. Peter Wasserscheid - Chemical hydrogen storage - towards a hydrogen-free hydrogen economy 40m
    
    Power-to-X and back
  - 09:50
    
    MSc. John Bøgild Hansen - Solid Oxide Cells in future sustainable energy scenarios: Opportunities and challenges 40m
    
    Power-to-X and back
- 10:30 → 10:50
  
  Coffee Break
- 10:50 → 12:00
  Chemical energy storage (hydrogen carriers),Thermal fuel generation and storage technologies.
  
  Conveners: Prof. Atsushi Urakawa , Dr Mateo Amatti
  - 10:50
    
    Prof. Atsushi Urakawa - Playing with thermodynamics and kinetics in CO2 conversion catalysis 40m
  - 11:30
    
    Dr Mateo Amatti - Operando spatially resolved photoemission analysis of Fuel Cell components at the submicron scale 30m
- 12:00 → 12:30
  
  Poster Clips
- 12:30 → 15:00
  
  Lunch
- 15:00 → 17:30
  
  The trip to the European Solidarity Centre
- 17:30 → 21:00
  
  Time to explore Gdańsk on the Motława River
Wednesday, 21 May
- 08:30 → 10:15
  Electrochemical energy storage (batteries (new types), supercapacitors).
  
  Conveners: Prof. Claire Villevieille , Dr Laura Simonelli , Dr Robert Temperton
  - 08:45
    
    Prof. Claire Villevieille 45m
  - 09:30
    
    Dr. Laura Simonelli -Fostering battery innovations by advanced synchrotron techniques challenges and opportunities 45m
- 10:15 → 10:45
  
  Coffee Break
- 10:45 → 12:15
  Critical Sustainable Materials - recycling, new materials
  
  Conveners: Dr Marta Mirolo , Dr Michael Stückelberger
  - 10:45
    
    Dr Michael Stückelberger - 45m
  - 11:30
    
    Dr Marta Mirolo - ReMade@ARI: bridging Research and Circular Economy through Advanced Analysis 45m
- 12:15 → 12:30
  
  Poster Clips
- 12:30 → 15:00
  
  Lunch
- 15:00 → 16:45
  
  Discussion table
  
  Conveners: Amina Taleb , Hans-Georg Steinrück
- 16:50 → 17:00
  
  Cheese and wine
- 17:00 → 18:30
  
  Poster session
- 19:30 → 21:30
  
  Diner
Thursday, 22 May
- 08:30 → 10:20
  TRL 4 -7 technologies.
  
  Conveners: Dr Jakub Drnec , Dr Phil Cook , Dr Robert Temperton
  - 08:30
    
    Dr. Jakub Drnec 40m
  - 09:10
    
    Dr. Phil Cook - Unlocking Industry Innovation with Big Science: Lessons from DTI’s Partnerships at Synchrotrons and Neutron Facilities 40m
  - 09:50
    
    Dr. Robert Temperton - Watching chemistry in-action using Soft X-ray Spectroscopy 30m
- 10:20 → 10:45
  
  Coffee Break
- 10:45 → 12:15
  Al assisted materials development and discovery
  
  Conveners: Prof. Helge Sören Stein , Prof. Tejs Vegge
  - 10:45
    
    Prof. Tejs Vegge - Accelerating materials discovery by machine learning and autonomous workflows for federated data generation and analysis – A case study for batteries and electrocatalysts 45m
  - 11:30
    
    Prof. Helge Sören Stein - Easy optimization, hard discovery, and how to engineer science 45m
- 12:15 → 12:30
  
  Poster Clips
- 12:30 → 15:00
  
  Lunch
- 15:00 → 16:30
  
  Discussion table
  
  Conveners: Aymeric Robert , Klaus Attenkofer
- 16:30 → 17:00
  
  Takeaway sandwiches
- 17:00 → 18:20
  High throughput characterization with ML data pipelines, autonomous laboratories.
  
  Conveners: Dr Bernd Hinrichsen , Dr Justus Just
  - 17:00
    
    Dr. Bernd Hinrichsen - Radically better materials characterisation: transforming research through synchrotron power 40m
  - 17:40
    
    Dr. Justus Just - Integrating Robotic High-Throughput Processing with In-Situ Multimodal Analysis - Homogenous Crystallization of Mixed Br-I Perovskites 40m
- 18:20 → 18:35
  
  Conference closing
  
  Conveners: Dr Jakub Drnec , Prof. Jakub Szlachetko