Materials for Tomorrow is an annually recurring conference addressing future material challenges from different perspectives. This year, the focus is on the future of building materials – materials that can enable new structural solutions, support architectural design, and meet increasing demands for sustainability, performance, and durability in a changing world.
The conference will take place at Chalmers Conference Centre, RunAn, in Gothenburg on 26-27 November with several internationally recognized speakers.
This year’s conference brings together researchers, engineers, architects, industry representatives, authorities, and decision-makers to explore new material solutions, emerging technologies, and innovative approaches shaping tomorrow’s built environment. It is a forum where fundamental research meets real-world application.
Materials for Tomorrow 2026 offers an excellent opportunity for, among others, master’s students to gain deeper insight into how materials science and construction are connected – from the atomic scale to full-scale structures – and to understand the role materials play in societal development.
Conference themes and sessions
Multiscale complexity: from angstrom to meter: How material properties emerge from structures spanning atomic to structural scales.
AI
Material design under real-world constraints: Designing materials for real conditions, including climate, production, economy, and regulations.
Hybrids, interphases, emerging materials and properties: Hybrid materials, interfaces, and emerging properties with transformative potential for the building sector.
Registration for the conference
Register for Material for Tomorrow, 26-27 November 2026 at Chalmers Technical University in Gothenburg
Speakers – abstracts and posters
This page presents an overview of all confirmed speakers at Materials for Tomorrow 2026, including talk titles and abstracts. The content is updated continuously.To highlight the breadth of materials science and make Materials for Tomorrow a true meeting place for different perspectives and challenges, we also arrange a poster exhibition in the Volvo Foyer. Here, PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers present their work – and compete for the Materials Science Poster Award.
Materials for Tomorrow 2026 – Programme
About the programme The full programme for Materials for Tomorrow 2026 is now available. Minor updates to the programme may still be made.This year’s conference brings together researchers, students, and industry professionals to explore Building Materials from a broad materials science perspective. The programme features talks and thematic sessions spanning multiscale complexity, AI, non-equilibrium materials, and hybrids, interphases and emerging materials, as well as a panel discussion, rapid-fire poster presentations, a poster exhibition and photo competition.Abstracts will be published on the speakers page as they become available. All abstracts will be published by 20 September. We also invite postdocs and PhD students at Chalmers to take part in the photo competition and engage with the poster exhibition showcasing ongoing research.
Photo contest
Materials Science Photo CompetitionIn concurrence with the conference Materials for Tomorrow the Area of Advance Materials Science organize a materials science photo competition. The idea is to bring forth the beauty that can be found in materials science.
Previous conferences
Materials for Tomorrow is an annually recurring conference, first organized in 2010. Here you can find topics, programmes and speaker lists for previous years' conferences.