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
- Registration
- Welcome and conference dinner at the hotel
Monday, 19 May
- Welcome
  
  Conveners: Dr Jakub Drnec , Prof. Jakub Szlachetko
  - 08:25
    
    Jakub Szlachetko
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    Jakub Drnec
- 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
    
    Photovoltaics, wind power, thermoelectrics
  - 09:20
    
    Dr Vera Steinmann - Photovoltaics: from Lab to Scale
    
    First Solar (Industry)
  - 10:00
    
    Dr Christopher Milne -Probing ultrafast structural and electronic dynamics in advanced materials using X-ray free electron lasers
- Coffee Break
- 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.
  - 11:40
    
    Dr Myrtille Hunault - MARS beamline: a unique facility for the characterization of highly radioactive samples from the nuclear fuel cycle
- Poster Clips
- Lunch
- Discussion table
  
  Convener: Jakub Drnec
- Coffee Break
- Poster session
- Diner
Tuesday, 20 May
- 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
    
    Power-to-X and back
  - 09:10
    
    Prof. Peter Wasserscheid - Chemical hydrogen storage - towards a hydrogen-free hydrogen economy
    
    Power-to-X and back
  - 09:50
    
    MSc. John Bøgild Hansen - Solid Oxide Cells in future sustainable energy scenarios: Opportunities and challenges
    
    Power-to-X and back
- Coffee Break
- 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
  - 11:30
    
    Dr Mateo Amatti - Operando spatially resolved photoemission analysis of Fuel Cell components at the submicron scale
- Poster Clips
- Lunch
- The trip to the European Solidarity Centre
- Time to explore Gdańsk on the Motława River
Wednesday, 21 May
- Electrochemical energy storage (batteries (new types), supercapacitors).
  
  Conveners: Prof. Claire Villevieille , Dr Laura Simonelli , Dr Robert Temperton
  - 08:45
    
    Prof. Claire Villevieille
  - 09:30
    
    Dr. Laura Simonelli -Fostering battery innovations by advanced synchrotron techniques challenges and opportunities
- Coffee Break
- Critical Sustainable Materials - recycling, new materials
  
  Conveners: Dr Marta Mirolo , Dr Michael Stückelberger
  - 10:45
    
    Dr Michael Stückelberger -
  - 11:30
    
    Dr Marta Mirolo - ReMade@ARI: bridging Research and Circular Economy through Advanced Analysis
- Poster Clips
- Lunch
- Discussion table
  
  Conveners: Amina Taleb , Hans-Georg Steinrück
- Cheese and wine
- Poster session
- Diner
Thursday, 22 May
- TRL 4 -7 technologies.
  
  Conveners: Dr Jakub Drnec , Dr Phil Cook , Dr Robert Temperton
  - 08:30
    
    Dr. Jakub Drnec
  - 09:10
    
    Dr. Phil Cook - Unlocking Industry Innovation with Big Science: Lessons from DTI’s Partnerships at Synchrotrons and Neutron Facilities
  - 09:50
    
    Dr. Robert Temperton - Watching chemistry in-action using Soft X-ray Spectroscopy
- Coffee Break
- 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
  - 11:30
    
    Prof. Helge Sören Stein - Easy optimization, hard discovery, and how to engineer science
- Poster Clips
- Lunch
- Discussion table
  
  Conveners: Aymeric Robert , Klaus Attenkofer
- Takeaway sandwiches
- 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
  - 17:40
    
    Dr. Justus Just - Integrating Robotic High-Throughput Processing with In-Situ Multimodal Analysis - Homogenous Crystallization of Mixed Br-I Perovskites
- Conference closing
  
  Conveners: Dr Jakub Drnec , Prof. Jakub Szlachetko