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.
Poster abstracts
Here you will find all the conference poster abstracts (numbered). The posters are also on display outside the conference hall.
Invited Speakers and Abstracts
Achim Menges, Professor Institute for Computational Design and Construction, University of Stuttgart
Susan Bernal Lopez, Professor, Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering, University of Bath
Title: Designing cementitious materials for climate positive infrastructure development
Wil V. Srubar III, Professor and the Deming Associate Dean for Innovation & Entrepreneurship in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado
Building with Biology
Ida Karlsson, Postdoc, Department of Energy Technology, Environmental and Energy Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology
Title: The Importance of Stakeholder Collaboration: Bringing Innovations Closer to Implementation
Stephen A. Hall, Professor, Division of Solid Mechanics, Lund University
Title: Exploring Deformation Processes in Geomaterials from the Bulk Down to the Intragranular Scale with X-rays and Neutrons
Olga Stamati, Research Engineer, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Title: Impact of Meso-scale Heterogeneities on the Mechanical Behaviour of Concrete: Insights from In-situ X-ray Tomography and E-FEM Modelling
Rostislav Chudoba, Professor, Chair and Institute of Structural Concrete, RWTH Aachen University
Creep and Fatigue of Concrete: Multiple Mechanisms, One Potential, Two Clocks
Alastair Thomas Matthew Marsh, Postdoc, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Title: AI, Digitization and Automation: Development Opportunities and Ethical Risks for Cementitious Materials in Construction
Knut Andreas Meyer, Assistant Professor, Computational Mechanics and Materials Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology
Title: Physics-Encoded Machine Learning for Mechanical Material Behavior
Branko Šavija, Associate Professor, Materials and Environment, Delft University of Technology
Ductility by Design: Negative Poisson's Ratio Reinforcement of Brittle Matrices
Katerina Ioannidou, CNRS Researcher, Laboratoire de Mécanique et Génie Civil, Université de Montpellier
Title: Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics in Cementitious Systems: Structural Evolution of Disordered Porous Networks
Mette Rica Geiker, Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and WISE Guest Professor, Chalmers University of Technology
Don’t Forget Maintenance
Mahbube Subhani, Associate Professor, Structural Engineering, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology
Hybridizing Nature and Synthetics: Interphases and Crashworthiness in Wood-Basalt Composites
Malgorzata Zboinska, Professor in Architectural Design and Digital Technologies, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology
The Future Is Biogenic: Novel Bio-Based Materials for Circular Architectural Applications
Lennart Bergström, Professor of Materials Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Stockholm University
Colloids at Work: From Cement and Ceramics to Nanofibrillar Insulating Foams
