Renowned speakers

For each of the four topics, an overview of the current state of the art, perspectives and limitations will be given by a renowned scientist in the field.

• prof. dr. Laura Gagliardi, University of Minnesota (USA)

• prof. dr. Francesco Paesani, University of California San Diego (USA)

• dr. François-Xavier Coudert, Chimie ParisTech (France)

• prof. dr. Berend Smit, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)

The plenary discussions for the four topics will be moderated by

• dr. Caroline Mellot-Draznieks, Collège de France (France)

• prof. dr. Lev Sarkisov, University of Edinburgh (UK)

• prof. dr. Veronique Van Speybroeck, Ghent University (Belgium)

• prof. dr. Guillaume Maurin, Université de Montpellier (France)

• prof. dr. Bartolomeo Civalleri, Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy)

Invited speakers include:

Session 1: Catalysis and adsorption in MOFs

·         prof. dr. Dirk De Vos, KU Leuven (Belgium)

·         dr. German Sastre, Universidad Politécnica de Valéncia (Spain)

·         dr. Louis Vanduyfhuys, Ghent University (Belgium)

·         prof. dr. Thijs J.H. Vlugt, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)

Session 2: Electronic properties and derived functions of MOFs

·         prof. dr. Ben Slater, University College London (UK)

·         prof. dr. Thomas Heine, Technische Universität Dresden (Germany)

·         prof. dr. Paolo Falcaro, Technische Universität Graz (Austria)

·         prof. dr. Monique A. van der Veen, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands)

Session 3: Mechanical, thermal, and chemical stability of MOFs

·         prof. dr. Rochus Schmid, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany)

·         prof. dr. Jin-Chong Tan, University of Oxford (UK)

·         dr. Peyman Z. Moghadam, University of Sheffield (UK)

·         dr. Alessandro Erba, Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy)

Session 4: Frontiers of MOF simulations towards longer length and time scales

·         prof. dr. Rocio Semino, Université de Montpellier (France)

·         prof. dr. Özgür Yazaydin, University College London (UK)