Program

08:30

Welcome coffee, registration and poster display

09:00

Opening remarks

09:15

Keynote #1 | Dr. Stuart Leadley & Dr. Amélie Maertens (Dow Chemical) - Advanced analytical technologies supporting the future of industrial chemistry: the case of in‑situ XPS

10:00

Talk #1 | Hao Wu (UCLouvain) - Beyond the Crystal Structure: Accelerating Battery Discovery with Composition-Based Machine Learning

10:15

Talk #2 | Matteo Fornasarig (UNamur) - Coupling Chromophores to Open-Shell Systems: From Organic Radicals to Direct Triplet Phosphorescence in Lanthanide-Doped Nanocrystals

10:30

Talk | NBN - Belgium’s national standards body

10:45

Coffee break

11:15

Keynote #2 | Prof. Ludovic TROIAN-GAUTIER (UCLouvain) - Time-Resolved Transient Absorption Spectroscopy to Elucidate Mechanistic Pathways in Photoredox Catalysis

12:00

Talk #3 | Rym Yahia Boudhar (UNamur) - Synthesis of Glycomimetics Designed as Inhibitors of Bacterial WaaA Enzyme

12:15

Talk #4 | Thomas Thunissen (UCLouvain) - The Rehm-Weller Approach to Experimentally Determine the Ground-State Geometry Triplet Energy of a Co(III) Photosensitizer 

12:30

Flash talk session 

12:50

Lunch and poster session

14:00

Keynote #3 | Dr. Boris LOUIS (KU Leuven) - The Power of One: How Single-Object Measurements are Redefining Modern Chemistry

14:45

Talk #5 | Ruth Stella Kamguem Kamga (UMONS) - Probing Photoswitchable Azobenzene-Functionalized Macrocyclic Peptoids

15:00

Talk #6 | Marilu Maraldi (UCLouvain) - Second Harmonic Generation of Spiropyran-Merocyanine Photoswitches: Insights from Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering and All-Atom Dynamic Structure Quantum Mechanical Calculations

15:15

Coffee break

15:45

Talk #7 | Alban de Gary (UNamur) - From Donor Substitution to Distance-Controlled TADF dimers: Curcuminoid derivatives for OLED applications

16:00

Talk #8 | Frederico Apolloni (UMONS) - A combination of plasma polymerization and plasma etching to control the antibacterial properties of biomaterial in dental prosthesis

16:15

Talk #9 | Job Gieling (UCLouvain) - Scalable and Sustainable Mechanochemical Deracemisation by Resonant Acoustic Mixing

16:30

Braekman prize session

16:50

Closing remarks and awards

17:00

Drink and networking session