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

Registration

Welcome and conference dinner at the hotel

Monday, May 19

Welcome

Conveners: Dr Jakub Drnec , Prof. Jakub Szlachetko

8:25 AM Jakub Szlachetko

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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

Coffee Break

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

Poster Clips

Lunch

Discussion table

Convener: Jakub Drnec

Coffee Break

Poster session

Diner

Tuesday, May 20

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

Coffee Break

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

Poster Clips

Lunch

The trip to the European Solidarity Centre

Time to explore Gdańsk on the Motława River

Wednesday, May 21

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

Coffee Break

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

Poster Clips

Lunch

Discussion table

Conveners: Amina Taleb , Hans-Georg Steinrück

Cheese and wine

Poster session

Diner

Thursday, May 22

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

Coffee Break

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

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

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

Conference closing

Conveners: Dr Jakub Drnec , Prof. Jakub Szlachetko