Sustainable Energy Materials Symposium

Friday, June 19, 2026 | AMOLF | Registration deadline: June 12, 2026, 23:59

Symposium overview

AMOLF will host its annual Sustainable Energy Materials Symposium on Friday, June 19th, 2026, in Amsterdam, this year centered on the theme “Light for driving and monitoring chemical reactions.” The symposium will bring together the Dutch sustainable energy community to highlight recent advances in photocatalysis and related fields, spanning topics from single-particle photocatalytic and optical studies to operando thermometry and reaction monitoring of plasmonic photocatalysis. 

Program

Time Program
09:15–09:50 Arrival – Coffee & tea
09:50 Welcome at CWI – Wiebke Albrecht
10:00 Kallie Willets (Temple University, Philadelphia, US)
10:45 Peter Zijlstra (TU Eindhoven) – Monitoring plasmon-enhanced processes at the single-molecule level
11:30 Group photo – Walk to AMOLF
11:45–13:45 Lunch & poster session
13:45 Andrea Pickel (University of Texas at Austin, US) – Probing Thermal Contributions to Plasmonic Photocatalysis with Dual-Mode Operando Thermometry and Reaction Monitoring
14:30 Pascal Buskens (TNO) – From plasmonic catalysts to pilot scale process demonstrators for photothermal CO₂ conversion – what is technically and economically feasible?
15:15–15:30 Break – Coffee & tea
15:30 Panel discussion
16:15–17:15 Closing – Drinks

Speakers

Speakers SEM 2026

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Practical information

Contact

AMOLF events
Email: Anne Jansen – A.Jansen@amolf.nl

Locations

Registration and all talks:
Turing room, Amsterdam Science Park Congress Centre
Science Park 125, Amsterdam

Directions (Google maps)

Lunch and drinks:
AMOLF, Science Park 104, 1098 XG Amsterdam

Organizers

Organized by the LMPV – Sustainable Energy Materials department of AMOLF.

Registration

Registration deadline: June 12, 2026, 23:59.

Attendance is limited by venue capacity, so we advise early registration

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