Participate in the annual Community Building activity which will take place at Vann Spa Hotel and Conference.
Overview
- Date:Starts 25 August 2025, 09:00Ends 27 August 2025, 15:00
- Location:Vann Spa Hotel & Conference
- Language:English
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 open to all Chalmers employees and invited guests. It is free of charge but you need to register to participate.
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.
