LEAPS meets Advanced Materials for Energy Conference 2025

May 18, 2025, 5:00 PM → May 23, 2025, 10:00 AM Europe/Warsaw

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Sunday, May 18

5:00 PM → 7:00 PM Registration

7:00 PM → 10:00 PM Welcome and conference dinner at the hotel

Monday, May 19

8:25 AM → 8:35 AM Welcome

Conveners: Dr Jakub Drnec , Prof. Jakub Szlachetko

8:25 AM Jakub Szlachetko

8:30 AM Jakub Drnec

8:35 AM → 10:30 AM Photovoltaics, wind power, thermoelectrics

Bernd Rech
Vera Steinmann
Chris Milne

Conveners: Prof. Bernd Rech , Dr Christopher Milne , Dr Vera Steinmann

8:40 AM Prof. Bernd Rech - Materials Challenges of Solar Energy Conversion and Storage: From a Photon Source Perspective Towards Next Generation Applications

Photovoltaics, wind power, thermoelectrics

9:20 AM Dr Vera Steinmann - Photovoltaics: from Lab to Scale

First Solar (Industry)

10:00 AM Dr Christopher Milne -Probing ultrafast structural and electronic dynamics in advanced materials using X-ray free electron lasers

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:20 PM Nuclear technologies, Fusion materials, metallurgy

Conveners: Dr Jan-Luc Béchade , Dr Myrtille Hunault

11:00 AM 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 AM Dr Myrtille Hunault - MARS beamline: a unique facility for the characterization of highly radioactive samples from the nuclear fuel cycle

12:20 PM → 12:30 PM Poster Clips

12:30 PM → 3:00 PM Lunch

3:00 PM → 4:30 PM Discussion table

Convener: Jakub Drnec

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Coffee Break

5:00 PM → 6:30 PM Poster session

7:30 PM → 9:30 PM Diner

Tuesday, May 20

8:30 AM → 10:30 AM Power-to-X and back

Conveners: John Bøgild Hansen , Prof. Peter Wasserscheid , Prof. Rebecca Pittkowski

8:30 AM Prof. Rebecca Pittkowski - Hydrogen and Beyond: Operando insights into electrocatalysts for Power-to-X

Power-to-X and back

9:10 AM Prof. Peter Wasserscheid - Chemical hydrogen storage - towards a hydrogen-free hydrogen economy

Power-to-X and back

9:50 AM MSc. John Bøgild Hansen - Solid Oxide Cells in future sustainable energy scenarios: Opportunities and challenges

Power-to-X and back

10:30 AM → 10:50 AM Coffee Break

10:50 AM → 12:00 PM Chemical energy storage (hydrogen carriers),Thermal fuel generation and storage technologies.

Conveners: Prof. Atsushi Urakawa , Dr Mateo Amatti

10:50 AM Prof. Atsushi Urakawa - Playing with thermodynamics and kinetics in CO2 conversion catalysis

11:30 AM Dr Mateo Amatti - Operando spatially resolved photoemission analysis of Fuel Cell components at the submicron scale

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM Poster Clips

12:30 PM → 3:00 PM Lunch

3:00 PM → 5:30 PM The trip to the European Solidarity Centre

5:30 PM → 9:00 PM Time to explore Gdańsk on the Motława River

Wednesday, May 21

8:30 AM → 10:15 AM Electrochemical energy storage (batteries (new types), supercapacitors).

Conveners: Prof. Claire Villevieille , Dr Laura Simonelli , Dr Robert Temperton

8:45 AM Prof. Claire Villevieille

9:30 AM Dr. Laura Simonelli -Fostering battery innovations by advanced synchrotron techniques challenges and opportunities

10:15 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee Break

10:45 AM → 12:15 PM Critical Sustainable Materials - recycling, new materials

Conveners: Dr Marta Mirolo , Dr Michael Stückelberger

10:45 AM Dr Michael Stückelberger -

11:30 AM Dr Marta Mirolo - ReMade@ARI: bridging Research and Circular Economy through Advanced Analysis

12:15 PM → 12:30 PM Poster Clips

12:30 PM → 3:00 PM Lunch

3:00 PM → 4:45 PM Discussion table

Conveners: Amina Taleb , Hans-Georg Steinrück

4:50 PM → 5:00 PM Cheese and wine

5:00 PM → 6:30 PM Poster session

7:30 PM → 9:30 PM Diner

Thursday, May 22

8:30 AM → 10:20 AM TRL 4 -7 technologies.

Conveners: Dr Jakub Drnec , Dr Phil Cook , Dr Robert Temperton

8:30 AM Dr. Jakub Drnec

9:10 AM Dr. Phil Cook - Unlocking Industry Innovation with Big Science: Lessons from DTI’s Partnerships at Synchrotrons and Neutron Facilities

9:50 AM Dr. Robert Temperton - Watching chemistry in-action using Soft X-ray Spectroscopy

10:20 AM → 10:45 AM Coffee Break

10:45 AM → 12:15 PM Al assisted materials development and discovery

Conveners: Prof. Helge Sören Stein , Prof. Tejs Vegge

10:45 AM 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 AM Prof. Helge Sören Stein - Easy optimization, hard discovery, and how to engineer science

12:15 PM → 12:30 PM Poster Clips

12:30 PM → 3:00 PM Lunch

3:00 PM → 4:30 PM Discussion table

Conveners: Aymeric Robert , Klaus Attenkofer

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Takeaway sandwiches

5:00 PM → 6:20 PM High throughput characterization with ML data pipelines, autonomous laboratories.

Conveners: Dr Bernd Hinrichsen , Dr Justus Just

5:00 PM Dr. Bernd Hinrichsen - Radically better materials characterisation: transforming research through synchrotron power

5:40 PM Dr. Justus Just - Integrating Robotic High-Throughput Processing with In-Situ Multimodal Analysis - Homogenous Crystallization of Mixed Br-I Perovskites

6:20 PM → 6:35 PM Conference closing

Conveners: Dr Jakub Drnec , Prof. Jakub Szlachetko