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Inauguration of AM@Chalmers and WISE Additive node at Chalmers
2025-10-02 09:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Chalmers University, Gothenburg
Welcome to the inauguration of the AM@Chalmers and WISE Additive node at Chalmers. This open research infrastructure aims to accelerate the development and implementation of sustainable additive manufacturing, enabled by state-of-the-art, powder-based metal additive manufacturing technologies.
For more information and registration.

WISE Guest Professor Lecture: Professor Johan Hjelm & Professor Yury Gogotsi
2025-10-02 15:00 - 16:00 | Digital event
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from two world-leading researchers in the field of sustainable energy materials and storage technologies. The digital seminar takes place 3-4 pm on October 2, 2025.

Professor Johan Hjelm will present:“Towards Sustainable Flow Battery Based Energy Storage”Explore the role of redox flow batteries in addressing the growing need for stationary energy storage, with insights into the latest research on organic electrolytes, reactor design, and membrane technologies.
Professor Yury Gogotsi will present:“How MXenes and Other 2D Materials Can Contribute to Our Sustainable Future”Discover how MXenes and other 2D materials are shaping the future of sustainable technologies through innovations in energy, water, and material science.

👉 Register here to secure your spot.

WISE Board Meeting 2025-5
2025-10-15

Driving Next-Generation Water Solutions
2025-10-20 12:30 - 17:00
Kick-Off Workshop Invitation
The The Swedish Research Council funded excellence cluster project NEW-WATER aims to bring together experts and stakeholders to address one of the world’s most urgent challenges: water contamination by complex and persistent pollutants.
When: October 20, 2025
Where: Chalmers (Hybrid participation available)
Register here, last sign up date October 15, 2025.

Webinar – Exciting Collaboration Opportunity: WACQT–WISE Pilot Call 2025
2025-10-22 13:00 - 14:00
You will learn more about this unique funding opportunity and how it aims to strengthen collaboration between the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology (WACQT) and Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability (WISE).
Date: 22 October 2025
Time: 13:00–14:00
Speakers:

Göran Johansson, Director of WACQT
Magnus Berggren, Director of WISE
Olle Eriksson, Co-director WISE

Join us to hear directly from the program directors about the goals of the pilot call, opportunities for joint research, and how to get involved.
Register here
Let’s build new bridges between quantum technology and sustainable materials science — together towards a smarter, greener future!

Welcome to the inauguration of the WISE Additive node at Linköping University (LiU).
2025-11-05 11:00 - 19:00 | HOPE (Home of organic and printed electronics)
Picture taken by: Thor Balkhed
When: November 5 @ 11:00 – 17:30
Where: HOPE, Källvindsgatan 5
Inauguration of the WISE Additive node at Linköping University (LiU) will take place on November 5th. The ceremony will start at HOPE and will end with a tour of the Täppan Cleanroom and ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The Täppan Cleanroom at Campus Norrköping will serve as the central hub for additive manufacturing research and development at LiU, with a focus on printing advanced electronic materials and devices.
For registration and programme
Or contact marina.kaspiarovich@liu.se

WISE Guest Professor Lecture: Professor Ganpati Ramanath & Professor Mikhail Katsnelson
2025-11-06 15:00 - 16:00 | Digital event
We are pleased to welcome Professor Ganpati Ramanath, WISE Guest Professor at Uppsala University and Professor Mikhail Katsnelson, WISE Guest Professor at Uppsala University.
Professor Mikhail Katsnelson: From quantum many-body physics to materials and sustainability.

In condensed matter physics and materials science, the fundamental laws are known. We believe that the basic equations of quantum mechanics and electrodynamics are in principle sufficient to describe all physical and chemical properties in the world around us. However, their practical applications face enormous difficulties, due to essentially many-body characters of electronic subsystem in any material. Unavoidably, some approximations should be made in their theoretical description. In particular, we should map the many-body problems to an auxiliary single-body problem in an effective medium, via so called ‘density functionals’ and “Green’s function functionals’. Looking, at a superficial view, very abstract and formal, in some cases these concepts allow us to trace the whole way from fundamental laws of quantum physics to explanation and, more importantly, prediction of a very broad circle of properties of a very broad circle of materials. I will focus mostly on optical properties, from quantitative theory of colors in transition metal compounds to new types of electromagnetic waves in quasi-two-dimensional materials, and on magnetism where our approaches can be used, in combination with machine learning tools, for the search of novel magnetic materials with desirable properties. Even mechanical properties such as strength and plasticity, despite being much farther from basic quantum laws, can be analyzed from these positions. As an example, I will show theoretical results on properties of steel, including a qualitative explanation of pearlite formation.

Professor Ganpati Ramanath: Molecular design of inorganic nanomaterials and interfaces for sustainable energy and electronics.
I will present highlights from our prior works on nanomaterials discovery and engineering interfaces for sustainable energy and electronics, followed by glimpses of our ongoing work through WISE. I will briefly describe the use of molecularly-directed strategies nanostructuring and doping to disentangle unfavorably coupled properties and obtain multifold increases in high-figure-of-merit thermoelectric nanomaterials. I will then discuss our pioneering use of organic molecular nanolayers (MNLs) to tailor the stability and multiple properties of inorganic interfaces. Example property enhancements include unprecedented multifold improvements in fracture toughness, and thermal and electronic transport. I will conclude with glimpses from ongoing WISE-supported activities on accessing emergent optoacoustic phenomena in organic/inorganic multilayers via superposition of MNL effects, MNL-induced alteration nanofilm morphology for electronics device wiring, van der Waals epitaxy and flexible thermoelectric devices.

We look forward to seeing you there!
Please register to the event here.

WISE Board Meeting 2025-6
2025-11-20

Registration Now Open for AM4Life/WISE Additive Autumn School
2025-11-24 08:00 - 2025-11-28 17:00
We’re pleased to announce that registration is now open for the AM4Life/WISE Additive Autumn School on the theme “Post-processing in AM and Surface Engineering. The preliminary schedule is also available.
The Autumn School will bring together leading researchers, industry experts, and participants to explore the latest advances in additive manufacturing post-processing and surface engineering.
👉 Register and view the schedule here
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, exchange ideas, and expand your network in this rapidly evolving field.

Inauguration of the WISE Additive node at Uppsala University
2025-11-26 09:00 - 16:00 | Ångströmslaboratoriet
A warm welcome to the inauguration of the WISE Additive Node at Uppsala University on November 26. With the support of the WISE Research Technology Platform program, we are excited to invite you to the inauguration of the Uppsala node of WISE Additive. Together with Chalmers and Linköping, we are establishing a national infrastructure for research in additive manufacturing.
At the Ångström Laboratory, besides laser powder bed fusion machines, we now also have new equipment for metal powder production, characterization, and post-processing of printed material. We are also expanding our analysis capabilities with a new micro-CT. These tools together support the full chain from powder preparation to component evaluation.
Please join us for a day of interesting lectures and presentations.
For more information and to register please sign up here.

WISE Symposium Uppsala University-Welcome to a webinar on Sustainability Aspects of Additive Manufacturing
2025-11-26 09:30 - 10:30
Webinar: Sustainability Aspects of Additive Manufacturing
Join us for an inspiring webinar with Prof. Iain Todd, Director of the Materials Made Smarter Research Centre in the UK. Prof. Todd will share insights on “Metal Additive Manufacturing and Powder Recovery, Reuse & Recycling”, highlighting innovative approaches to sustainability in advanced manufacturing.
With a PhD in Solidification from the University of Sheffield and extensive experience across academia and industry — including the Netherlands Institute for Metals Research and CENIM in Madrid — Prof. Todd has been a leading figure in developing additive manufacturing at the University of Sheffield since 2003. In recognition of his contributions, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2023.
📅 Date: November 26, 2025
🕤 Time: 9:30 AM
💻 Location: Digital event
We look forward to seeing you there!
Please register to the event here.

WISE Guest Professor Lecture: Professor Julie Beth Zimmerman, Uppsala University and Dr. Sandrine Lyonnard, Uppsala University.
2025-12-04 15:00 - 16:00 | Digital event
WISE Guest Professor Lecture
When: December 4, 2025 | 15:00–16:00
We are pleased to welcome Professor Julie Beth Zimmerman, WISE Guest Professor at Uppsala University and Dr. Sandrine Lyonnard, WISE Guest Professor at Uppsala University.

Dr. Sandrine Lyonnard will give a lecture on “Operando battery characterization at the synchrotron : pushing the frontiers of spatiotemporal analysis.”
Abstract: Synchrotron techniques have great advantages due to the high penetration power of hard x-rays, ultimate space and time resolutions available, and chemical sensitivity, enabling to perform fast spatially-resolevd parameter mappings and obtain the finest details of chemical structures in complex environements. These characteristics make them particularly suited to probe materials transformations during the charging/discharging process of a battery. Combining several techniques within multimodal workflows is even more powerful, as we can image reaction and degradation mechanisms directly inside the devices and gain a holistic understanding of the various processes. I will illustrate this on recent examples based on tomographic techniques applied to Li- and Na-ion systems.
Professor Julie Beth Zimmerman, WISE Guest Professor at Uppsala University: “Designing a Green Chemistry Future”.

Register to the event here.

WISE Dialogue 2026
2026-03-17 - 2026-03-18 | Uppsala Consert & Congress
WISE Dialogue 2026
On 17–18 March 2026, the WISE community will gather once again — this time in the inspiring setting of Uppsala Concert & Congress. Preparations are in full swing for two days filled with conversations, new perspectives, and shared ideas about how we can shape the future together.
WISE Dialogue is more than just an event — it’s our annual meeting place to exchange knowledge, build connections, and be inspired by each other.
👉 Curious to know more?Explore the upcoming program, speakers, practical details, and much more on the event page:Read more about WISE Dialogue 2026

WISE Welcome meeting 2026
2026-08-24 - 2026-08-25 | Vildmarkshotellet, Kolmården, 618 92
Vildmarkshotellet, Kolmården
The WISE Welcome Meeting gathers all new members of the WISE Community for two inspiring days filled with presentations, poster sessions, and opportunities to get to know each other.
The meeting will take place at Vildmarkshotellet in Kolmården, offering the perfect setting to connect, learn more about WISE, and experience an activity in the Kolmården Zoo.
👉 Click here to visit the event page and learn more.

WISE Networking Day 2026
2026-11-23 - 2026-11-24 | NÄST Innovation Destination Torslanda – Göteborg, Sweden
Read more about the event on our event page:Click here to take me to the WISE Networking Day 2026 event page.
