Madrid, Spain
May 19-21, 2026

- PROGRAM -

Wed 20 Thu 21
PhD Track 1 PhD Track 2 Plenary Session
Parallel Session – PhD Students I - Room C & Auditorium - Computational Materials Modeling & Simulation
Chairperson: Christina Schenk (IMDEA Materials Institute, Spain)
08:30-08:40 Balance between precision and scalability: Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulation of Electrodeposition Processes Efe Mehmet Peker,
Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und-prüfung (BAM), Germany
08:40-08:50 From Oligomers to entangled Polymers: How transferable are Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials? Mirko Fischer,
University of Münster / Institute for Physical Chemistry, Germany
08:50-09:00 Towards Scalable Gallium Selenide Epitaxy on Graphene: A Multiscale DFT-KMC Framework for Optimizing Growth Conditions Rayen Ben Ismail,
University of Nottingham, UK
09:00-09:10 Screening Energetically Stable Structures in Solid-State Ionics Applications Alex Teruel,
Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Spain
09:10-09:20 Data-Driven Exploration of Thermal and Elastic Properties in Covalent Organic Frameworks Aleksander Szewczyk,
TU Dresden, Germany
09:20-09:30 Limitations of cluster-trained MLIPs for liquid density and diffusivity Viktor Svahn,
Uppsala university, Sweden
09:30-09:40 Predicting Crystal Structures and Ionic Conductivities in Li3YCl6−xBrx Halide Solid Electrolytes Using a Fine-Tuned Machine Learning Interatomic Potential Jonas Böhm,
ICMCB-CNRS, France
09:40-09:50 Fine-Tuned Ab Initio–Trained MACE Model for Predictive Mechanical Modeling of Graphene Oxide Sara Shahbazi Fashtali,
Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
09:50-10:00 A Multi-Scale Mixture of Experts Model for Structural Prediction of Cu Nanoparticles Yunyu Zhang,
University College London, UK
10:00-10:10 Discovery and recovery of crystalline materials with property-conditioned transformers Cyprien Bone,
University College London, UK
10:10-10:20 Fourier Transformers for Latent Crystallographic Diffusion and Generative Modeling Elohan Veillon,
Université d´Artois, France
Parallel Session – PhD Students II - Room María Fernández del Amo - Machine Learning, Optimization & Predictive Properties
Chairperson: Joaquín Muñoz Rodríguez (Bird & Bird LLP, Spain)
08:30-08:40 ML-SAPIE: An Autonomous Workflow Bridging High-Throughput DFT and Machine Learning for Surface Interface Discovery Mary Tabut,
Sorbonne University, France
08:40-08:50 MAD-SURF: a general machine-learning interatomic potential for molecular adsorption on metal surfaces Manuel González Lastre,
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
08:50-09:00 Benchmarking Bandgap Prediction in Semiconductors under Experimental and Realistic Evaluation Settings Haolin Wang,
University of Sheffield, UK
09:00-09:10 Generative Pseudo-Force Fields for Structure Generation Stefaan Hessmann,
TU Berlin, Germany
09:10-09:20 Machine learning aided, closed-loop optimization of electrodeposition processes in a Material Acceleration Platform Mert Ozan,
Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing(BAM), Germany
09:20-09:30 From Prompt to Protocol: Fast Charging Batteries with Large Language Models Ge Lei,
Imperial College London, UK
09:30-09:40 MAESTRO: An AI agent orchestrator for battery materials discovery Sheares Toh,
Imperial College London, UK
09:40-09:50 Lattice thermal conductivity on argyrodite compounds Ag8TS6 (T= Si, Ge and Sn): Experimental and Theoretical approach Joana Cecibel Bustamante Pineda,
Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Germany
09:50-10:00 LeMat-Rho: High-Fidelity Charge Density Dataset for Machine Learning and Atomistic Materials Modeling Mathilde Franckel,
Imperial College London, UK
10:00-10:10 Machine Learning driven insight into Bonding Heterogeneity Effects on Thermal Conductivity Aakash Ashok Naik,
Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung), Germany
10:10-10:20 Machine Learning Accelerators for Quantum Transport Luke Keenan,
Trinity College DUblin, Ireland
10:20-10:30 Generative Artificial Intelligence for Inverse Materials Design Junwu Chen,
EPFL, Switzerland
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break / Poster Session /Exhibition
Plenary Session - Auditorium
Chairperson: Milica Todorovic (University of Turku, Finland)
11:00-11:20 INVITED Helium Effect on Self-Healing at Tungsten Grain Boundaries Using a DFT-Based Machine Learning Interatomic Potential Roberto Luis Iglesias Pastrana,
Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
11:20-11:35 Modelling the interplay between vibrations and disorder in crystalline materials Kasper Tolborg,
Aalborg University, Denmark
11:35-11:50 Digital experiments for molecular passivation of hybrid perovskite surfaces Laura-Bianca Pasca,
University of Oxford, UK
11:50-12:10 INVITED MaterialEyes — Seeing the Invisible using Experiment, Theory, and AI Maria K. Chan,
Argonne National Laboratory, USA
12:10-12:25 Multi-Modal Artificial Intelligence for Molecular Structure Identification using Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy Javier Heras Domingo,
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
12:25-12:40 Predictions and/or insight? - ML and physics-based NMR and IR spectroscopy for water in, and on, crystals Jolla Kullgren,
Chemistry - Ångström, Uppsala University, Sweden
12:40-12:55 TriForces: Augmenting Atomistic GNNs for Transferable Representations Joseph Musielewicz,
Entalpic, France
12:55-13:15 INVITED Machine-learning materials science Miguel Marques,
Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany
13:15-13:35 INVITED Deformation-trained Deep Potential model for superionic water ice: transferability from stress-strain data to phase equilibria Maurice de Koning,
Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin, Brazil
13:35 Closing & AI4AM2027 announcement
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