Program

Program


The scientific program will consist of 20 lectures by invited speakers (25 min + 10 min discussion) and two poster sessions. Furthermore, there will be a session on career development for young scientists with four invited guests.

The talks take place in the seminar room 1.2/1.3 on the ground floor of the Centre for Biotechnology and Biomedicine (BBZ).

The registration takes place in the conference office in the foyer of the building.


Tuesday, September 16, 2025

08:00 Registration (Foyer)
09:00 Welcome
09:05 Lailai Zhu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
09:40 Petra Paiè (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
10:15 Coffee Break (Foyer)
10:45 Giovanni Volpe (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
11:20 Holger Stark (TU Berlin, Germany)
11:55 Lunch (Foyer)
13:30 Christina Kurzthaler (MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany)
14:05 Jaime Ortega Arroyo (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
14:40 Mikael Käll (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
15:15 Poster Pitches 1
15:45 Coffee Break and Poster Session 1 (Foyer/Atrium)
18:15 Dinner (Foyer)
19:30 Session on Career Development for Young Scientists
Isabel Allegro (JENOPTIK AG, Jena, Germany)
Holger Becker (microfluidic ChipShop GmbH, Jena, Germany)
Ulrich Rant (Kurt Schwabe Institute for Sensor Technologies & TU Dresden, Germany)
Richard Zeltner (Menlo Systems GmbH, Munich, Germany)

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

09:00 Lynn Paterson (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
09:35 Tetsuro Tsuji (Kyoto University, Japan)
10:10 Coffee Break (Foyer)
10:40 Raúl A. Rica (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
11:15 Pavan Kumar (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India)
11:50 Group Photo Shooting and Lunch (Foyer)
13:20 Gerhard Gompper (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
13:55 Francesca Bragheri (Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies – CNR, Italy)
14:30 Poster Pitches 2
15:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session 2 (Foyer/Atrium)
17:30 Nicole N. Hashemi (Iowa State University, USA)
18:05 Justus Ndukaife (Vanderbilt University, USA)
19:30 Conference Dinner

Thursday, September 18, 2025

09:00 Denis Garoli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
09:35 Heidi Ottevaere (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
10:10 Coffee Break (Foyer)
10:40 Moritz Kreysing (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
11:15 Marisol Ripoll (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)
10:50 Diptabrata Paul (Universität Leipzig, Germany)
12:25 Poster Prize Ceremony and Closing
12:40 Lunch (Foyer)

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