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European Rare Earth and Actinide Society (ERES) Prize Award Lecture Winners
Lecoq de Boisbaudran Award Winner 2026
Prof. William J. Evans
Department of Chemistry,
University of California, Irvine
“For his pioneering discoveries in the chemistry of the rare-earth and actinide metals”
ERES Junior Award Winner 2026
Dr Bianca Schacherl
Institute of Nuclear Waste Disposal,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
“For her outstanding contributions to f-element X-ray spectroscopy and spectromicroscopy”
Plenary Speakers
- William Evans – University of California Irvine (USA)
- Stephen Hill – National High Magnetic Field Laboratory / Florida State University (USA)
- Thomas Albrecht – Colorado School of Mines (USA)
- Stefanie Dehnen – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Germany)
- Jun Li – Tsinghua University (China)
- Eszter Borbas – Uppsala University (Sweden)
Keynote Speakers
- Bianca Schacherl – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Germany)
- Peter Roesky – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Germany)
- Congqing Zhu – Nanjing University (China)
- Filipp Furche – University of California Irvine (USA)
- Thomas Just Sørensen – University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
- Ellen Matson – University of Rochester (USA)
- Rebecca Abergel – University of California Berkeley (USA)
- Aline Nonat – University of Strasbourg (France)
- Megan Fieser – University of Southern California (USA)
- Bess Vlaisavljevich – University of Iowa (USA)
- Andrew Gaunt – Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)
- Karsten Meyer – Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) (Germany)
- Muralee Murugesu – University of Ottawa (Canada)
- Mauro Perfetti – University of Florence (Italy)
- Selvan Demir – Michigan State University (USA)
- Aaron Sadow – Iowa State University (USA)
- Peter Harvey – University of Nottingham (UK)
- David Procter – University of Manchester (UK)
- Juliane März – Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) (Germany)
- Kasper Pedersen – Technical University of Denmark (DTU) (Denmark)
- Wenliang Huang – Peking University (China)
- Stefan Minasian – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA)
- Henry La Pierre – Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
- Jochen Autschbach – University at Buffalo (SUNY) (USA)
- Marinella Mazzanti – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland)
- Stephan Hohloch – University of Innsbruck (Austria)
- Laurent Maron – Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier (France)
- Polly Arnold – University of California Berkeley (USA)
- Ning Chen – Soochow University (China)
- Eric Schelter – University of Pennsylvania (USA)
- Eric McInnes – University of Manchester (UK)
- Gregory Nocton – École Polytechnique (France)
- Anja-Verena Mudring – Aarhus University (Denmark)
- Joseph Cotruvo Jr. – Pennsylvania State University (USA)
- Jason Love – University of Edinburgh (UK)
- Richard Wilson – Argonne National Laboratory (USA)
Invited Lectures and Talks
- Trevor Hayton – University of California, Santa Barbara (USA)
- Christopher Cahill – George Washington University (USA)
- Anna Peacock – University of Birmingham (UK)
- Michael Baker – University of Manchester (UK)
- Niko Hildebrandt – McMaster University (Canada)
- Samuel Sanchez – University of Strasbourg (France)
- Matthew Higginson – AWE (UK)
- David Parker – Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong)
- Jerome Robinson – Brown University (USA)
- Tori Forbes – University of Iowa (USA)
- Michael Bodensteiner – University of Regensburg (Germany)
- Alison Altman – Texas A&M University (USA)
- Nicholas Chilton – University of Manchester & Australian National University (UK & Australia)
- David Clark – Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)
- Hélène Bolvin – Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier (France)
- Moris Eisen – Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Israel)
- Zoe Pikramenou – University of Birmingham (UK)
- Skye Fortier – University of Texas at El Paso (USA)
- Suzanne Bart – Purdue University (USA)
- Yan-Zhen Zheng – Xi’an Jiaotong University (China)
- Cory Windorff – New Mexico State University (USA)
- Valérie Vallet – Université de Lille (France)
- Stephen Faulkner – University of Oxford (UK)
- Kristina Kvashnina – European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (France)
- Marc Walter – Technische Universität Braunschweig (Germany)
- Peter Junk – James Cook University (Australia)
- Justin Walensky – University of Missouri (USA)
- Yaofeng Chen – South China University of Technology (China)
- Scott Daly – University of Iowa (USA)
- Tonya Vitova – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
- Andrew Kerridge – Lancaster University (UK)
- James Blakemore – University of Kansas (USA)
- Matthew Allen – Wayne State University (USA)
- Gopalan Rajaraman – Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (India)
- Ping Yang – Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)
- Jean-Claude Bünzli – École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland)
- Samuel Murphy – Lancaster University (UK)
- Gaël Ung – University of Connecticut (USA)
- Jack Emerson-King – University of Manchester (UK)
- Fabrizio Ortu – University of Leicester (UK)
- Thomas Simler – École Polytechnique (France)
- Lisa Vondung – University of Hamburg (Germany)
- Olaf Walter – European Commission (EU)
- Ben Réant – University of Manchester (UK)
- Meagan Oakley – University of Manchester (UK)
- Jingzhen Du – Zhengzhou University (China)
- Nina Huittinen – Freie Universität Berlin (Germany)
- John Seed – University of Manchester (UK)
- Ivan Popov – Washington State University (USA)
- Nicolaj Kofod – University of Manchester (UK)
- Thorsten Stumpf – Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany)
- Robert Baker – Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
- Andreas Geist – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
- Marie Perrin – ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
- Samuel Greer – Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)
- Hanshi Hu – Tsinghua University (China)
Code of conduct
This event aligns with the UK Equality Act 2010, the University of Manchester’s Dignity at Work and Study Policy, and our shared commitment to equity and inclusion. We ask all participants to help maintain a respectful, inclusive, and safe environment. If you feel uncomfortable at any time, please speak to a member of the team for support. Breaches of these expectations will be addressed to uphold our values.