11^th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED MATERIALS

Organized every three years, the ROCAM Conference aims at bringing together scientists, students and industry specialists willing to get an overview of the latest developments in the field, make new contacts or find new cooperation opportunities.

The 10^th international edition is organized in Bucharest, capital of Romania, between July 28 June - 1 July, 2027.

Confirmed Plenary Speakers

Prof. Joachim Maier, Em. Director, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research Stuttgart, Germany Joachim Maier received his PhD at the University of Saarbrücken in 1982, and completed his habilitation at the University of Tübingen in 1988. He has lectured at the University of Tübingen, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a foreign faculty member, at the University of Graz as a visiting professor, and at the University of Stuttgart as an honorary professor. As director of the physical chemistry department (from 1991 to 2024) of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research he co-authored more than 1000 papers on chemical and electro-chemical phenomena that garnered more than 100.000 citations. His major interests are energy research, solid state ionics, electrochemistry and interfaces. Joachim Maier laid the conceptual foundation of the field “nanoionics”. He is a member of various national and international academies and his work received national and international distinctions.
Prof. Joachim Sauer, Humboldt-Universität, Institut für Chemie, Berlin, Germany Joachim Sauer, Humboldt University Berlin, is Senior Researcher at Humboldt University where he was Professor of Theoretical Chemistry from 1993 – 2017. He has got the Dr. rer. nat. degree in Chemistry from Humboldt University in (East-) Berlin in 1974. Currently, he is Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley. Joachim Sauer is known for development and applications of quantum chemical methods in surface science, adsorption and catalysis. He has published 425 research papers, notably in the area of modeling the structure and reactivity of transition metal oxides, zeolites and metal-organic frameworks, and he has given more than 500 invited lectures. Among others, he has received the Schrödinger medal of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists, the Francis Gault Lectureship of the Federation of European Catalysis Societies, and the ACS Award 2023 in Surface Chemistry. He is member of the German National Academy Leopoldina, Foreign Member of the Royal Society and International Member of National Academy of Sciences.
Prof. Magdalena Titirici, Imperial College London, UK Magda has a PhD from University of Dortmund and a Habilitation from the Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces/University of Potsdam. She moved to the UK in 2013 to take up a “Reader” position at Queen Mary University of London to be promoted to full professor one year later. Magda moved to Imperial in 2019 as a Chair in Sustainable Energy Materials. She also holds short visiting research positions in Japan, Sweden and Romania. Magda’s research is on sustainable materials and their implementation in batteries beyond Li ion as well as in electrocatalytic processes including biomass oxidation and O2/N2/CO2 reduction. Magda has been included on the list of highly cited researchers since 2018. Her research was awarded by Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal Society, Institute of Materials and Mines, Chinese Academy of Science and others.
Prof. Maksym Kovalenko, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Sixto Malato Rodriguez, Director, Platforma Solar de Almeria, University of Almeria, Spain
Prof. Stuart Parkin, Director, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics Halle, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Prof. Yury Gogotsi, Director, A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA