Nano Area of Advance Community Building Activity 2026

Welcome to participate in the Community Building Activity 24-26 August 2026 held at Hotel Skansen Båstad. 

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.

The program may be subject to change

August 24

08:40 Meet at latest at 08:40, bus leaves from Chalmers Library (Chalmers tvärgata) 

11:00 Arrival at Hotell Skansen, Båstad

11:30 Lunch

13:00 Introduction to the CBA by Christoph and Janine

13:15 Arne Sjögren Prize Winner Ludovico Tesser – Thermodynamic constraints on noise

13:45 Scientific talk by Julia Wiktor – When Details Matter: Atomistic Modelling of Real Materials

14:15 Joakim Halldin-Stenlid – Computational Electrochemistry: From Atoms to Interfaces

14:45 Coffee, fika. Hotel check-in from 15:00

15:30 Scientific talk by Timur Shegai – Casimir self-assembly for tunable optical microcavities

16:00 Seed project talk by Andrey Danilov – Epitaxial Graphene on SiC for Bolometric Microwave Sensors: Towards Single-Photon Counting

16:20 Seed project talk by Mattias Geilhufe – Matter in topological light

16:40 Seed project talk by Maggie Holme – Nanoparticles from Immune Cells: Mapping their architecture one particle at a time

17:00 Postdoc project talk by Martin Rahm and Per Hyldgaard –Electronic Structure Analysis and Spectra

17:30 Coffee

18:00 Scientific talk by Ivan Mijakovic – Nanomaterials-based sensors for advanced diagnostics

18:30 Invited talk by Prof. Aleksandra Radenovic, Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology, EPFL, Switzerland and member of the AoA Nano Scientific Advisory Board – Nanofluidics

19:30 AoA Nano Community Picture

20:00 Dinner, bar, etc. 

August 25

09:00 Center talks – MetaPIX Excellence Center

09:00 Víctor Torres Company – Introduction to MetaPIX and selected experimental activities

09:30 Viktor Lilja – Inverse design in photonics

10:00 Lam Tran – Rare-earth photonic integration for on-chip lasers and integrated quantum photonics

10:30 Poster session (groups 1 & 2) including coffee and fika  

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Free time. Participants may enjoy the spa at Hotel Skansen (included), visit Norrvikens trädgårdar/Norrviken Garden (entrance not included), or join excursion to and hike at Hovs Hallar (included; please note that participation must be indicated during registration)

18:00 Coffee and fika

18:30 News from our research infrastructures CMAL and NFL by Per-Anders Carlsson and Peter Modh

19:05 Staff scientists program:

           Eva Olsson and Ting Yang Nilsson - Establishing TEM Workflows for Soft Organic Nanomaterials

           Avgust Yurgens & Shadi Rahimi - Bridging Biotechnology and Nanoelectronics for Advanced Biosensing Applications

20:00 Dinner, posters are still up for visits after dinner

August 26

Hotel check-out before 09:00

09:00 Scientific talk by Marcus Wilhelmsson – Studying RNA biology and therapeutics using fluorescent base analogues

09:30 Assistant professor talk by Armi Tiihonen – More stable perovskite solar cells using accelerated materials research

10:00 Assistant professor talk by Chiara Micheletti – Expanding the toolbox for imaging the collagen-mineral nanocomposite in bone: From on-axis electron tomography to 4D-STEM

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Seed project talk by Hana Jungová – Shining Light on the Hidden Moves: Nanoscale Probing of Bacterial Activity

11:20 Postdoc project talk by Matthias Geilhufe & Lars Öhrström – Quantum metal-organic frameworks – QMOFs

11:50 Assistant professor talk by Shantanu Mishra – Single-molecule generation, manipulation and characterization by scanning probe microscopy

12:20 Conclusion of the CBA, incl. poster prize awards

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Departure by bus to Chalmers