Programme

Outline

  • 6th – 10th September 2026
  • Four days of parallel sessions
  • Three parallel sessions per day with three concurrent streams
    • Each session consists of a Keynote, an Invited, and two Contributed talks
  • Two poster sessions (Monday and Tuesday)
  • More details to follow…

Themes

  • T1. Coordination and organometallic chemistry
  • T2. Catalysis and reactivity
  • T3. Magnetism
  • T4. Spectroscopy
  • T5. Imaging, therapy and health
  • T6. Energy conversion, production and storage
  • T7. Resources and sustainability

Plenary Speakers

  • Stefanie Dehnen – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Germany)
  • Thomas Albrecht – Colorado School of Mines (USA)
  • Eszter Borbas – Uppsala University (Sweden)
  • Jun Li – Tsinghua University (China)
  • Stephen Hill – National High Magnetic Field Laboratory / Florida State University (USA)

Keynote Speakers

  • Karsten Meyer – Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) (Germany)
  • Andrew Gaunt – Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)
  • Stephan Hohloch – University of Innsbruck (Austria)
  • Henry La Pierre – Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
  • William Evans – University of California Irvine (USA)
  • Filipp Furche – University of California Irvine (USA)
  • Jochen Autschbach – University at Buffalo (SUNY) (USA)
  • Peter Roesky – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Germany)
  • Laurent Maron – Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier (France)
  • Wenliang Huang – Peking University (China)
  • Ning Chen – Soochow University (China)
  • Congqing Zhu – Nanjing University (China)
  • Juliane März – Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) (Germany)
  • Ellen Matson – University of Rochester (USA)
  • Marinella Mazzanti – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland)
  • David Procter – University of Manchester (UK)
  • Polly Arnold – University of California Berkeley (USA)
  • Aaron Sadow – Iowa State University (USA)
  • Gregory Nocton – École Polytechnique (France)
  • Kasper Pedersen – Technical University of Denmark (DTU) (Denmark)
  • Mauro Perfetti – University of Florence (Italy)
  • Selvan Demir – Michigan State University (USA)
  • Muralee Murugesu – University of Ottawa (Canada)
  • Eric McInnes – University of Manchester (UK)
  • Richard Wilson – Argonne National Laboratory (USA)
  • Thomas Just Sørensen – University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
  • Loic Charbonniere – University of Strasbourg (France)
  • Stefan Minasian – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA)
  • Rebecca Abergel – University of California Berkeley (USA)
  • Jason Love – University of Edinburgh (UK)
  • Eric Schelter – University of Pennsylvania (USA)
  • Megan Fieser – University of Southern California (USA)
  • Joseph Cotruvo Jr. – Pennsylvania State University (USA)
  • Anja-Verena Mudring – Aarhus University (Denmark)

Invited Lectures and Talks

  • Peter Junk – James Cook University (Australia)
  • Wei-Qun Shi – Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
  • Ping Yang – Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)
  • Matthew Allen – Wayne State University (USA)
  • David Clark – Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)
  • Kristina Kvashnina – European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (France)
  • Tonya Vitova – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
  • Michael Baker – University of Manchester (UK)
  • Niko Hildebrandt – McMaster University (Canada)
  • Yaofeng Chen – South China University of Technology (China)
  • Andrew Kerridge – Lancaster University (UK)
  • Marc Walter – Technische Universität Braunschweig (Germany)
  • Valérie Vallet – Université de Lille (France)
  • Trevor Hayton – University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
  • Scott Daly – University of Iowa (USA)
  • Bess Vlaisavljevich – University of Iowa (USA)
  • Justin Walensky – University of Missouri (USA)
  • Cory Windorff – New Mexico State University (USA)
  • James Blakemore – University of Kansas (USA)
  • Suzanne Bart – Purdue University (USA)
  • Christopher Cahill – George Washington University (USA)
  • Skye Fortier – University of Texas at El Paso (USA)
  • Moris Eisen – Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)
  • Nicholas Chilton – University of Manchester & Australian National University (UK & Australia)
  • Gopalan Rajaraman – Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (India)
  • Yan-Zhen Zheng – Xi’an Jiaotong University (China)
  • David Parker – Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong)
  • Stephen Faulkner – University of Oxford (UK)
  • Anna Peacock – University of Birmingham (UK)
  • Aline Nonat – University of Strasbourg (France)
  • Zoe Pikramenou – University of Birmingham (UK)
  • Carlos Platas-Iglesias – Universidade da Coruña (Spain)
  • Jerome Robinson – Brown University (USA)
  • Hanshi Hu – Tsinghua University (China)
  • Jingzhen Du – Zhengzhou University (China)
  • Lisa Vondung – University of Hamburg (Germany)
  • Meagan Oakley – University of Manchester (UK)
  • Bianca Schacherl – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
  • Thomas Simler – École Polytechnique (France)
  • Samuel Greer – Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)
  • Matthew Higginson – AWE (UK)
  • Marie Perrin – ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
  • Michael Bodensteiner – University of Regensburg (Germany)
  • Karah Knope – Georgetown University (USA)
  • Ivan Popov – Washington State University (USA)
  • Fabrizio Ortu – University of Leicester (UK)
  • Gaël Ung – University of Connecticut (USA)
  • Olaf Walter –European Commission (EU)
  • Tori Forbes – University of Iowa (USA)
  • Nina Huittinen – Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
  • Samuel Murphy – Lancaster University (UK)
  • Andreas Geist – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
  • Hélène Bolvin – Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier (France)
  • Thorsten Stumpf – Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany)
  • Robert Baker – Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)