Symposia Structure

Area A	Area B	Area C	Area D	Area E	Area F	Area G	Area H

Area A: Functional Materials
Area Coordinator: Emmanouel Giannelis

	Title of Area / Symposium	Organizer(s)
A1	Carbon-based nanomaterials	Eric Anglaret Vladimir Falko Costas Galiotis Maurizio Prato
A2	Innovations in Functional Nanomagnets	Makis Angelakeris Michael Farle Panagiotis Poulopoulos Radek Zboril
A3	Functional Polymers and Related (Nano)Composites	Jean-Francois Gerard Philippe Dubois Ton Peijs
A5	Colloidal Nanoparticles: Synthesis, functionalization and applications	Antonios G. Kanaras Wolfgang Parak Liberato Manna Catherine Dendrinou Samara
A6	Advanced Materials for Space Exploration	George Vekinis Barrie Dunn
A7	Functional Nanomaterials for Novel Applications	Paloma Fernandez Ana Cremades Oliver Rader Peter Schaaf
A8	Materials by Design	Julien Varignon Nicholas C. Bristowe
A9	Functional Membranes	Volker Abetz Katja Loos
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Area B: Structural Materials
Area Coordinators: Hans-Jurgen Christ &
Gregory Haidemenopoulos

	Title of Area / Symposium	Organizer(s)
B1	Advanced High Strength Steels	Wolfgang Bleck Francisca Caballero Ronald Schnitzer
B2	Light Weight Metals	Michele V. Manuel Norbert Hort Alan Luo Eric Nyberg Mathieu Brochu Frank Monheillet
B3	High-temperature alloys	Srdjan Milenkovic Shigehisa Naka
B4	Advanced properties of SPD-processed metallic materials	Heinz Werner Hoppel Andrea Bachmaier Anton Hohenwarter
B5	Advanced Ceramics	Thomas Graule Jerzy Tadeusz Lis Athena Tsetsekou Dariusz Kata
B6	Advanced Composites	Aravind Dasari Bodo Fiedler
B7	Hybrid and Metal Organic Framework (MOF) Materials	Bartolomeo Civalleri Jin-Chong Tan
B8	High Entropy Alloys and Compositionally Complex Alloys	Glatzel Uwe Easo George
B9	Bulk Metallic Glasses	Jurgen Eckert Jorg F. Loffler
B10	Fatigue, Wear and Corrosion of Materials and Structures	Georgios Savaidis Michael Vormwald Wolfram Furbeth
B11	Mechanical Properties and Microstructure	Tilmann Beck Frank Walther
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Area C: Processing
Area Coordinators: Nikolaos Michailidis & Ke Lu

	Title of Area / Symposium	Organizer(s)
C1	Coatings and Surface Modification Techniques	Elias Aperathitis Albano Cavaleiro Rainer Cremer Ru Lin Peng
C2	Laser-based processing and manufacturing	Robert Eason Andres F. Lasagni Romer Gert-willem Ioanna Zergioti
C3	Powder routes: from synthesis to processing	Claude Estournes Christophe L. Martin
C4	Additive Manufacturing	Ugo Lafont Alberto Molinari Sebastian Piegert Eduard Hryha
C5	Interface Design and Modelling, Wetting and High-Temperature Capillarity	Simeon Agathopoulos Fabrizio Valenza
C6	Joining	Ivan Kaban Christof Sommitsch
C7	Steel Making	Johannes Schenk Spyros Papaeftymiou
C8	Solidification, Casting, Foundry and Liquid Metal processing	Alexandros Karantzalis Andrew Kennedy
C9	Manufacturing Processes	K.D. Bouzakis Luca Settineri
C10	Thermomechanical Processing, Severe Plastic Deformation and Nano-structuring	G. Angella T. Grosdidier J. Ivanisenko M. Krzyzanowski
C11	Processes and Materials for Nanoelectronics	Dimitris Tsoukalas Marco Fanciulli Alain Claverie
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Area D: Characterization and Modelling
Area Coordinators: Eric Le Bourhis & Sotirios Ves

	Title of Area / Symposium	Organizer(s)
D1	Materials Science with Synchrotron Radiation X-rays	Federico Boscherini Maria Katsikini Peter D. Lee
D2	Nanoscale Materials Characterization and Modeling by Advanced Microscopy Methods	Thomas Walther Georgios Dimitrakopulos Slawomir Kret Georgios Fourlaris
D3	Materials at extreme conditions: static or dynamic compression combined or not with low or high temperatures	Jean Paul Itie John Arvanitidis Ilias Zouboulis
D4	Small scale mechanics, fracture, interface, experiments and modeling	Christophe Pinna Eric Le Bourhis
D5	Application of ICME principles in the design of structural materials	Ulrich Prahl Ernst Kozeschnik Javier Llorca Yu Zhong
D6 Joint Symposium	Multi-Length-Scale Innovations in Damage Evolution in Materials: Characterization, Modeling, and Validation	Bernard Normand Ellen Cerreta George T Gray III Damien Feron
D8	Ab initio models for thermodynamic and elastic properties of advanced materials	Sergei Dudarev Martin Friak
D9	Qualification and modelling of structural and fuel materials for sustainable nuclear reactors	Lorenzo Malerba Marjorie Bertolus Jana Kalivodova
D10	Multiscale Modeling of Materials	Karakasidis Theodoros Kalliadasis Serafim Koumoutsakos Petros Tserpes Konstantinos Schmauder Siegfried
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Area E: Energy and Environment
Area Coordinators: Maria Luisa Di Vona &
Emmanuel Giannelis

	Title of Area / Symposium	Organizer(s)
E1	Hydrogen production, conversion, and storage	Maria Luisa Di Vona Bogdan Kuchta Ioannis Kallitsis Toshiyuki Mori
E2	Batteries and Supercapacitors	Philippe Knauth Isabella Nicotera Alan V. Chadwick Jean Scoyer
E3 Joint Symposium	Materials for Energy harvesting	Spyros Diplas Theodora Kyratsi Truls Norby Paul R. Ohodnicki Amit Pandey Monica Della Pirriera Susan Schorr Joao Manuel de Almeida Serra Jianwu Sun
E4	Materials for Nuclear Energy (fusion, fission)	Thierry Angot Christian Grisolia Dirk Engelberg
E6	Advanced Materials for Transport Applications	Dirk Lehmhus Axel von Hehl Rene Alderliesten Kambiz Kayvantash Jorg Hohe Joachim Hausmann
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Area F: Biomaterials and Healthcare
Area Coordinators: Jerome Chevalier &
Maria Vallet-Regi

	Title of Area / Symposium	Organizer(s)
F1	Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering	Antonio Salinas Aldo Boccaccini Chiara Vitale-Brovarone Katharina SchmidtBleek Didier Letourneur
F2	Biomaterials for therapeutic delivery	Miguel Manzano Joao Mano Maria Vallet-Regi
F3	Nanobiomaterials and nanotechnology for implants, devices and theranostics	Alejandro Baeza Daniel Ruiz-Molina Maria Vallet-Regi
F4	The Next Generation of Implants with Multi-functional Properties: Advanced Synthesis, Processing and Surface Modification Methods for Biomaterials	Aldo Boccaccini Pieter Cools Laurent Gremillard Paola Palmero
F5	Translation of biomaterials research towards innovation and product development: from concepts to clinic	Jerome Chevalier Hakan Engqvist Tobias Fuederer Christophe Marquette Corrado Piconi
F6	Bio-Inspired Materials: From structural materials towards multi-functional biomaterials	Peter Fratzl Julian Jones Sylvain Meille Eduardo Saiz
Authors presenting at the symposia of Area F: "Biomaterials and Healthcare" will be invited to submit their papers to a special issue to be published in the Open Access journal "Materials". Guest editors: A. R. Boccaccini, J. Chevalier, M. Vallet-Regi
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Area G: Education and Technology Transfer
Area Coordinator: Heinrich Hofmann

	Title of Area / Symposium	Organizer(s)
G1	Competences and basic knowledge in the ICT ER	Paloma Fernandez
G2	Key material fields for modern curricula	H.M. Polatoglou Mebarek Alouani Michael Finnis
G3	Critical Materials in Design, Manufacturing and Recycling	Margarethe Hofmann
G4	Transferable skills for Masters and PhD’s in Material science	Heinrich Hofmann Emmanuel Giannelis
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Area H: Raw Materials
Area Coordinators: Bart Blanpain & Patrice Turchi

	Title of Area / Symposium	Organizer(s)
H1	Critical Materials: Impact on Near-term Advanced Energy Technologies	Orlando Rios P. E. A. Turchi Iver Anderson Steve Constantinides Roderick Eggert
H2	Sustainable Production of (Critical) Materials	Dimitrios Panias Mishra Brajendra Guo Muxing
H3	Materials Life Cycle Approach and Flow Analysis	Margarethe Hofmann-Amtenbrink Alessandra Hool Roland Gau? Guido Sonnemann
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