Areas

Bernhard Bayer, Paula Vilarinho

	Title of Area / Symposium	Organizers
A1	2D Materials: Fundamentals, synthesis and applications	Sabina Caneva Pascal Gehring Marie-Blandine Martin Stephan Hofmann
A2	Synthesis and applications of functional materials	Anna-Maria Coclite David Munoz Rojas Antonella Milella
A3	Nanowires and nanotubes: From growth phenomena to devices	Sven Barth Kimberly Dick Thelander Santiago Esconjauregui Alois Lugstein Kevin M. Ryan
A4	Materials for catalysis and porous materials	Dominik Eder Freddy Kleitz Roland Marschall Victor de la Pena
A5	Materials for photonics and optics	Richard Hobbs Sarah Skoff Giulia Tagliabue
A6	Characterisation of functional materials	Robert Weatherup Baran Eren Jani Kotakoski
A7	Merged to A8
A8	Multi-purpose materials (electronic, magnetic, thermal, sensors/actuators, network materials) (incl. A7 & A 10)	Bruno Dlubak Pierre Seneor Barbara Stadlober Andreas Rudorfer Juan J. Vilatela Francisca Martinez Hergueta Paula Ferreira Sampo Tuukkanen Chris Bowen Donglei Fan
A9	Merged to E5
A10	Merged to A8

Ronald Schnitzer, Francisca Garcia Caballero

	Title of Area / Symposium	Organizers
B1	Advanced steels and cast irons	Carlos Garcia-Mateo Elena Pereloma Goro Miyamoto Matthias Kuntz Giuliano Angella
B2	Light weight metals	Joaquin Rams Belen Torres Stefan Pogatscher
B3	High-temperature alloys and intermetallic, titanium alimunides	Carlos Capdevila Svea Mayer
B4	Advanced structural ceramics	Raul Bermejo Florian Bouville Jérôme Chevalier
B5	High entropy alloys	Sheng Guo Zhaomping Lu Uwe Glatzel Jean-Philippe Couzinié Pinaki Prasad Bhattacherjee
B6	Fatique, wear and corrosion of materials and structures	Ulrich Krupp Thierry Palin-Luc
B7	Material testing, characterisation and modelling (incl. C8)	Svjetlana Stekovic Mark Whittaker James Rouse
B8	Theory-guided development structural materials	David Holec Helena Zapolsky Martin Friák

Herbert Danninger, Anna Zervaki

	Title of Area / Symposium	Organizers
C1	Additive manufacturing processes and modelling (incl. C2 & D10)	Eduard Hryha Gerhard Leichtfried Nikolaos Michailidis
C2	Additive manufacturing 2: Indirect/ sinter-based techniques (merged to C1)	Sandra Wieland Alberto Molinari Christian Gierl-Mayer
C3	Advanced subtractive manufacturing / machining (merged to C4)	Konstantinos-D. Bouzakis Dirk Biermann Jose Garcia
C4	Powder technologies to obtain high perfomance materials (incl. C3)	Raquel de Oro Calderon Monica Campos Gomez Didier Bouvard Jose Manuel Torralba Jan Kazior
C5	Liquid metal processing	Christian Bernhard Ari Jokilaakso Markéta Tkadlecková
C6	Solidification, casting and advanced metallurgical processing	Damien Tourret Mohamed El Mansori
C7	Green polymer processing (merged to H1)	Doros Theodorou José A Covas
C8	Innovative heat treating routes	Harald Leitner Christoph Broeckmann
C9	Advanced ceramic materials processing	Thomas Konegger Michael Scheffler Rodrigo Moreno
C10	Coatings and surface modification technologies	Albano Cavaleiro Paul Mayrhofer Tomas Polcar George Vourlias
C11	Laser based processing an manufacturing	Andrés Fabián Lasagni Daniel Sola Javier Solis Ioanna Zergioti
C12	Joining	Ivan Kaban Norbert Enzinger
C13	Wetting, high-temperature capillarity, interface design & modeling	Simeon Agathopoulos Fabrizio Valenza Joanna Wojewoda-Budka
C14	Thermomechanical processing, severe plastic deformation & nanostructuring	Heinz Werner Höppel Andrea Bachmaier Daniel Kiener

Andreas Ludwig, Ehrenfried Zschech

	Title of Area / Symposium	Organizers
D1	Advanced microscopy in materials research	Spyros Diplas Patricia Abellan Rik Drummond-Brydson
Sponsor of symposium D1:
D2	Characterization of 1D, 2D materials, ceramics and their composites (incl. D4)	Csaba Balazsi Costas Charitidis Monica Ferraris Tomas Sikola
D3	Micro- and Nano-mechanics – Characterization and Modelling (old D5)	Andre Clausner Verena Maier-Kiener Jon Molina
D4	Merged to D2
D6	Atomic scale modelling of advanced materials - Ab initio, molecular dynamics and Monte-Carlo simulations	Lorenz Romaner Matous Mrovec Marcel Sluiter
D7	Integrated computational materials engineering - interoperability, simulation platforms and applications	Georg J.Schmitz Javier Llorca Nicola Mazari Christian Haase
D8	Multiscale and multiphysics modelling of materials, processes and products	Werner Ecker Erik van der Giessen Dierk Raabe
D9	Modelling of solidification, casting and remelting	Miha Zaloznik Jakob Olofsson Abdellah Kharicha
D10	Modelling of additive manufacturing (merged to C1)	Carolin Körner Jesper Hattel Lars-Erik Lindgren

Martin Wilkening, Natalia Sobczak

	Title of Area / Symposium	Organizers
E1	Advanced materials for transport applications	Dirk Lehmus Axel von Hehl René Alderliesten Kambiz Kayvantash Jörg Hohe
E2	Battery materials - from fundamentals to cell development	Ilie Hanzu Nicolas Louvain Nuria Tapia Ruiz
E3	Anion and cation transport in materials for energy storage	Peter Ngene Frederic Aguesse Philippe Knauth Martin Wilkening
E4	Solid state batteries and components	Wolfgang Zeier Nella M. Vargas-Barbosa
E5	New concepts, materials and technologies for photovoltaic devices (incl. A9)	Kazimierz Drabczyk Grazyna Kulesza-Matlak Damian Wojcieszak Hugo Águas Manuel João Mendes Maria José Lo Faro
E6	Materials for hydrogen technologies	Konrad Swierczek Jakub Kupecki Grzegorz Brus

Jürgen Stampfl, Sandra Van Vlierberghe

	Title of Area / Symposium	Organizers
F1	Bioceramics and bioglasses (incl. old D3)	Aldo Boccaccini Anna Tampieri Maria Vallet-Regi Aldo Boccaccini Antonio Salinas
F2	From academic biomaterials research toward commercial application	Jasper Van Hoorick Christian Gorsche
F3	Additive manufacturing of biomaterials	Sonja Baumgartner Hermann Seitz Ramón Escobar-Galindo
F4	Bioinspired materials	Helga Lichtenegger Thomas Speck
Sponsor of symposium F4:
F5	Synthetic polymer for medical applications (incl. F8)	Olivier Guillaume Anna Finne Wistrand
F6	Biologically instructive biomaterials	Lisa White Izabela Stancu
F7	Metallic biomaterials	Diego Mantovani Regine Willumeit-Römer
F8	Biomaterials enabling therapeutic delivery of bioactive molecules (merged to F5)	Bert Van den Bogerd Anna Karewicz
F9	Smart biomaterials	Matthew Baker James Henderson

Jürgen Neugebauer, Frans Vos

	Title of Area / Symposium	Organizers
G1	Materials education in an on-line world	Andreas Trummer
G2	Gaming and virtual reality as a method for materials knowledge education and dissemination	Konstantinos P. Giannakopoulos
G3	Additive manufacturing: from research to industrial application	Stefan Peters

Brett Suddell

	Title of Area / Symposium	Organizers
H1	Bio-based and Polymeric materials in the circular economy (incl. C7 & H2 & H4)	Simone Knaus Clemens Holzer Brett C Suddell Thomas Lucyshyn Gernot Oreski
H2	Inorganic and critical raw materials for the circular, low-carbon, and digital economy (new - H3 & H5 & H6 & H7)	Ana Urbieta Félix A. Lópe Alessandra Hool Min-Ha Lee Orlando Rios Ryan Ott Dieuwertje Schrijvers Scott McCall Kyung-Tae Kim Enrico Bernardo Koon-Yang Lee
H3	Materials for space applications and extreme environments (new- old H8)	Donatella Giuranno Rada Novakovic
H4	Merged to H1
H5	Merged to H2
H6	Merged to H2
H7	Merged to H2
H8	New H3

Symposia structure and organizers