Programme

28 – 30 October 2026

wednesday

October

9:00-9:15

Introduction

Maider Zarrabeitia - ICMS-CSIC – Spain

ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES

9:15-10:00

Lecture

Li-ion batteries & Beyond Li technology

Elizabeth Castillo-Martínez - UCM - Spain

10:00-10:45

Lecture

Hybrid ion-capacitors

Eider Goikolea - EHU - Spain

10:45-11:15

Coffee Break

11:15-12:00

Lecture

Metal anodes optimization through stresses and dislocations (tbd)

Enrique Vasco - ICMM-CSIC – Spain

12:00-12:45

Lecture

Metal-sulfur batteries (tbd)

Juan Luis Goméz Cámer - UC – Spain

12:45-13:30

Lecture

Thin-film batteries

Miguel Ángel Muñoz-Márquez - INL – Portugal

13:30-14:45

Lunch

ELECTROLYTES

14:45-15:30

Lecture

Liquid electrolyte for Li-ion batteries and beyond

Alexander Ponrouch – ICMAB-CSIC- Spain

15:30-16:15

Lecture

Polymer electrolytes for solid-state batteries

Iruñe Villaluenga - POLYMAT - Spain

16:15-17:00

Lecture

Inorganic solid electrolytes for solid-state batteries (tbd)

Ainara Aguadero - ICMM-CSIC - Spain

thursday

October

MODELLING

9:00-9:45

Lecture

Introduction to battery modelling

Erlendur Jónsson– TU Braunschweig - Germany

9:45-10:30

Lecture

Atomistic modeling for Li-ion batteries and beyond

Deyana Tchitchekova - ICMAB-CSIC - Spain

MATERIAL & CELL MANUFACTURING

10:30-11:15

Lecture

Organic-based batteries

Javier Carretero-González - ICTP-CSIC - Spain

11:15-11:45

Coffee Break

11:45-12:30

Lecture

Hybrid supercapacitors: Industry trends

Enrique Serrano- B5TEC – Spain

12:00-12:45

Lecture

Li-ion and Li-metal battery manufacturing (tbd)

Aitor Eguía - CIDETED - Spain

13:15-14:30

Lunch

14:30-15:15

Lecture

Sustainable manufacturing of printed supercapacitors

Joao Coelho - US - Spain

ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES & ASSESMENT

15:15-16:00

Lecture

Probing cell inefficiencies with operando electrochemical metrologies

Israel Temprano – UDA – Spain

16:00-16:45

Lecture

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (tbd)

Ousmane Camara – BIOLOGIC - France

16:45-17:30

Lecture

Sustainability and carbon footprint of batteries

Jens Peters – UAH - Spain

friday

October

CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES

9:00-9:45

Lecture

In-situ synchrotron XRD and X-ray tomography of battery materials

Valeria Blanco – ICMAB-CSIC - Spain

9:45-10:30

10:30-11:15

Lecture

Total scattering & pair distribution function analysis

Joaquín Ramírez-Rico - US - Spain

Transmission electron microscopy in battery materials

Juan Gabriel Lozano – US – Spain

11:15-11:45

Coffee Break

11:45-12:30

Lecture

(Operando) X-ray absorption spectroscopy for battery materials (tbd)

Lorenzo Stievano - UM – France

12:30-13:15

Lecture

Scanning probe microscopy techniques

Christine Kranz - UU - Germany

13:15-14:30

Lunch

14:30-15:15

Lecture

Characterization of ion transport mechanisms in Li-ion batteries by neutron diffraction

Nebil Ayape Katcho - ILL - France

15:15-16:00

Lecture

Electrode-electrolyte interphase studies in alkali-ion batteries

Maider Zarrabeitia - ICMS-CSIC - Spain