Topic A: MATERIALS AND THIN FILMS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

A. CABALLERO – Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla, Spain:
Operando and in-situ spectroscopic techniques for the characterization of materials: XAS and NAPXPS

P. PETROV – Imperial College London, United Kingdom:
Methods for thin films deposition

 P. FRIEDERICH – Institute of Theoretical Informatics, Karlsruhe, Germany:
Machine learning for materials discovery – from property prediction over simulation to experiment

Topic B: MATERIALS FOR CLEAN ENERGY STORAGE

T. SPASSOV – Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Sofia, Bulgaria:
Nanomaterials for hydrogen production and storage

M. KNAPP – Institute for Applied Materials, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany:
Diffraction techniques for materials characterization; Application of synchrotron and neutron diffraction; in-situ diffraction

F. JESCHULL – Institute for Applied Materials, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany:
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy for Battery Researchers

Topic C: CERAMICS/BIOCERAMICS AND GLASSES FOR BETTER LIFE

E. KAMITSOS – Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute, NHRF, Greece:
Introduction to IR reflectance spectroscopy and its use in glass studies

J. PRENTICE – Department of Materials, University of Oxford:
Efficient computation of optical properties of large-scale heterogeneous systems

M. A. DIAZ CUENCA – ICMS, joint CSIC-University of Seville Center, Spain:
Synthesis, processing and characterization of bioactive materials for medical applications