Nano Area of Advance Community Building Activity 2025

Welcome to participate in the Community Building Activity 25-27 August 2025 held at Vann Spa Hotel & Conference. 

The Community Building activity includes a broad scientific program with lectures from both invited and internal speakers, in combination with discussions, team building and networking. 

The event is free of charge and open to all Chalmers employees and invited guests. This year the event filled up very quickly. If you want to be on the waiting list, please send an email to susannah.carlsson@chalmers.se

The program may be subject to change

August 25

09:45 Bus leaves from Chalmers Library

11:30 Arrival at VANN and pick-up of nametags, deposition of luggage

11:45 – 13:00 Lunch

 13:00 – 13:15 Introduction to the CBA Christoph and Janine

13:15 – 13:45 Arne Sjögren Prize Winner Daniel Erkensten – Close Encounters of the Exciton Kind: The Role of Exciton-Exciton Interactions in 2D Materials

13:45 – 14:45 Scientific talks. Chair – Viktor Lilja:

13:45 – 14:15: ERC talk by Jan Stake – Far-infrared semiconductor electronics

14:15 – 14:45: Uta Hejral, Assistant professor – Shedding synchrotron light on model catalysts at work

14:45 – 15:15 Coffee, Fika & Check-in

15:15 – 17:15 Scientific talks. Chair – Alexandre Barbosa:

15:15 – 15:45: Scientific talk by Uta Klement – Incorporation and characterization of graphene derivatives in thermal spray coatings and additively manufactured parts

15:45– 16:05: Seed Project talk by Ann-Sofie Cans. – Nanoprobes to study synaptic function

16:05 – 16:25: Seed Project talk by Timur Shegai et al. – Ultrathin 3R-MoS2 metasurfaces with atomically precise edges for efficient nonlinear nanophotonics

16:25 – 16:45: Seed Project talk by Sergey Kubatkin – Towards the experiments in silencing two-level fluctuators in quantum devices by interaction with quantum liquids

16:45 – 17:05: Postdoc project talk by Alexandra Stubelius et al. – Supramolecular coordination cages as nanosponges for health applications

17:05  – 17:30 Coffee

17:30 – 18:45 Scientific talks. Chair  – Hamza Yakubu

17:30 – 18:00 ERC talk by Alexandre Giovanitti– Tailor-made polymer electrodes for driving chemical reactions with electricity

18:00 – 18:45 Invited talk by Prof. Heiner Linke, former director of NanoLund, Lund University – Nanotechnology enabled by protein design

18:45– 19:00 AoA Nano Community Picture

 9:30 – late Dinner, bar, etc.

August 26

09:00 – 10:30 Center talks – Competence Center for Catalysis , KCK. Chair – Michaela Hošková:

09:00 - 09:30: Magnus Skoglundh – Introduction to KCK and selected experimental activities

09:30 - 10:00: Henrik Grönbeck – Operando Computational Catalysis

10:00 - 10:30: Olov Öhrman, PREEM– Catalysis for renewable fuel production

10:30 – 12:30 Coffee, fika and Poster Session with groups 1 & 2.

Best poster award jury: Alexandre Barbosa (chair), Hamza Yakubu, Uta Klement, Alexander Giovanitti

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 16:30 Free time with the possibility to use the spa at Vann Spa& Resort (included) or go for a walk, rent canoes, play padel or take a nice swim in the ocean.

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee and fika

17:00 – 17:15 Chemical imaging at Chalmers by Per Malmberg

17:15 – 17:45 News from our research infrastructures CMAL and NFL by Per-Anders Carlsson and Peter Modh

17:45 – 19:30
- Workshop for all Nano PIs: preparing for evaluation of AoA Nano,  success stories

- Workshop for PhD students and Postdocs: Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes by Eva Olsson, member of the Nobel Prize Committee.

19:45 – late Dinner, posters are still up for visits after dinner

August 27

Before 08:45 Checkout from rooms

08:45 – 10:15 Scientific talks. Chair – Hamza Yakubu:

08:45 – 09:15: Scientific talk by Ergang Wang – Conjugated polymers for solar energy conversion

09:15 – 09:45: Scientific talk by Martin Andersson – Preventing medical device associated infections

09:45 – 10:15: Assistant professor (and seed project) talk by Mathilde Luneau – Atom-efficient alloys with enhanced catalytic performance

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee and checkout from rooms

10:45 – 12:30 Scientific talks. Chair – Michaela Hošková:

10:45 – 11:15: Scientific talk by Eva Olsson – TBD

11:15 – 11:45: Assistant professor talk by Daniel Weber – New low dimensional solids as energy and quantum materials

11:45 – 12:15: Assistant professor (& seed project) talk by Julia Maibach. – Photoelectron Spectroscopy: Probing chemical states and electronic structure in solids and liquids

12:15 – 12:25: Conclusion of the CBA, incl. poster prize awards

12:30– 13:30 Lunch

Welcome to register!

To the registration form.