We are pleased to announce the
3rd International Symposium on Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion
mESC-IS 2018
to take place from 10th to 12th September 2018 in Belgrade, Serbia.
The Symposium is organized byVINČA Institute of Nuclear Sciences – University of Belgrade and
Hydrogen Economy Initiative Serbia.
After two successful Symposia that were held in Turkey in 2015 and 2017, to our great satisfaction to be the organizers we are proudly moving toward the 3rd mESC-IS 2018. The goal is to continue a good tradition of previous meetings through exchange of important achievements by providing a forum for discussion in recent progress made in several major activity areas, namely
batteries, fuel cells and
solid state hydrogen storage.
solid state hydrogen storage.
The symposium will have a fair balance of plenary sessions covering cross-cutting issues and the state of the art reviews, invited lectures, oral and poster presentations. Selected papers will be published in
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.
EC – Energy storage &
conversion
EC1
Fuel Cells & Applications
EC2
Li-ion batteries and beyond
EC3
All solid state batteries
EC4
Metal-air batteries
EC5
Capacitive energy storage system
EC6
Computational modeling of innovative materials for energy storage and conversion
EC7
Electrolytes; oxygen ion, proton & mixed conductors
EC8
Electrolysis / Electrolyzers
H – Hydrogen-production, storage & applications
H1
Metal hydrides for thermal energy storage
H2
Synthesis of novel materials for hydrogen production and storage
H3
Computational modeling of processes in SSHS
H4
Fundamental properties of metal-hydrogen systems
H5
Application of M-H systems
Dr. Athanasios Stubos is Research Director, Head of the Environmental Research Laboratory and Director of the Institute of Nuclear & Radiological Sciences & Technology, Energy & Safety at the National Research Center Demokritos, Greece. His main research interests include Hydrogen Technologies, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Transport Phenomena in Porous Media, Energy Processes and Environmental Impact. He has more than 180 publications in international refereed Journals, 24 chapters in books and more than 190 presentations in international Conferences. He was also project coordinator for several European and National R&D projects, and performed industrial R&D in USA and Europe. 
Karol Fijalkowski is an independent researcher at the Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw. He obtained his MSc (2007) and PhD degree (2012) from University of Warsaw. During his PhD studies he was involved in research on hydrogen storage within Marie-Currie EU RTN ‘Hydrogen’. Later, he continued investigation of ammonia borane related, hydrogen rich solid materials as potential source of H2 gas for LT fuel cells. He was also engaged in research concerning metal-hydride batteries and low temperature synthesis of boron nitride. He designed and brought up a miniaturised device for electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) characterisation of solid materials. He was a short term scholar at Stanford Centre for Professional Development, Stanford University. Recently, he was Post-Doc Research Associate at the University of Cambridge (2016–2018) aiming catalytical nitrogen fixation.
Dr. Duncan Fagg is currently employed as a Principal Researcher in the nanotechnology research division (NRD) of the centre for mechanical technology and automation (TEMA) in the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He is the author of over 100 international scientific publications. He has over 20 years of research experience with previous placements in CICECO Aveiro, Portugal, ICV Autonomous University Madrid, Spain, Dept.Chemical Engineering, Patras Greece, School of Chemistry, St-Andrews University Scotland, and Risø DTU National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Roskilde Denmark. At present, he is the leader of a group studying hydrogen related technologies, with special interest in proton ceramic materials.
Dr. Darius Milčius is Head of Center for Hydrogen Energy Technologies at Lithuanian Energy Institute since 2008. His main scientific interests and activities related to: modification of materials surface properties using plasma immersion approach, development of metal hydrides using physical vapor deposition technologies for hydrogen storage, batteries and smart windows applications; development of thin electrolyte for SOFC (solid oxide fuel cells) and development of thin oxide films on polymer substrates.
Dag Noréus is a professor in the Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry at Stockholm University. He earned his PhD degree in reactor physics in 1982 at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and completed his postdoc at Daimler-Benz, Metal Hydride Laboratory, Stuttgart, Germany, in 1983. Noréus became a researcher in 1984 and a professor in 2000 in the Department of Structural Chemistry, Stockholm University. His research interests include x-ray diffraction, elastic and inelastic neutron scattering, and electrochemistry focusing on the understanding of metal-hydrogen interaction in metal hydrides and electrodes.
Dr Goran Branković graduated in physics in 1993 at the University of Belgrade and obtained his PhD in 2002 in Physical Chemistry from Instituto de Quimica – UNESP, Araraquara, Brazil. He carried out his postdoctoral research the Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos – UFSCar, Sao Paulo in Brazil (2002-2003) and at the Department for Nanostructured Materials “Jozef Stefan” Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia (June 2007-December 2007) He was also a visiting scientist at Instituto de Quimica – UNESP, Araraquara, Sao Paulo, Brazil (May 2011-September 2011) and at the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA (Jan. 2014 – June 2014). Dr Branković is research professor and head of Materials Science Department of Institute for Multidisciplinary Research – University of Belgrade in Serbia. Dr Branković is the leader of the Serbian national project “Zero- to Three-Dimensional Nanostructures for Application in Electronics and Renewable Energy Sources: Synthesis, Characterization and Processing”. His interests and expertise include electroceramics (varistors, ferroelectrics, magnetic materials, multiferroics), grain boundary phenomena, materials for energy applications (materials for SOFC photovoltaics, thermoelectrics), nanomaterial design and synthesis, sintering and ceramics processing, solid state reactions, thin films deposition, materials characterization. From 2003-2008, Dr Branković was lecturer at Multidisciplinary Graduate School of the Belgrade University on courses “Materials for Electronics” and “Structure of Materials”. He is author and co-author of 115 refereed journal articles that are cited more than 1000 times.
Mamoru SENNA is a professor at Department of Applied Chemistry in Keio University in Yokohama. After his promotion in Keio University in 1971, he carried out his post-doctoral research works in RWTH Aachen, and University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe. His background is physical chemistry of fine particulate solids, with preferential research field of solid state reactions and reactivity of solids. His particular interest is concentrated on the mechanochemical reactions at the boundary between inorganic and organic solids. He is one of the co-founders of International Mechanochemical Association. His recent activity is concentrated on the rationalization of preparation processes of functional fine particles in view of energy storage devices, particularly for all-oxide solid-state Li-ion batteries. His recent research activities are associated with some research institutes in European countries, among others, Institute of Nanotechnology in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Geotechnics, SAS, Kosice, and J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague.
Dr. Ádám RÉVÉSZ obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2000 at the Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary. In his thesis he examined the correlation between the thermal, mechanical and microstructural properties of ball-milled powders. Following a 2-year postdoc at the Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain (2001-2002), he received a full-time position at Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary. In 2005 Dr. Révész got a HAESF internship award to spend one year at the University of Maryland, USA. During this time the studied the hydrogen storage and mechanical properties of surface modified alloys. After having received his habilitation degree in 2011, he has become an Associate professor at Eötvös University.
Dr Carcadea Elena is coordinating the National Center for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, a department of the National Research and Development Institute for Cryogenics and Isotopic Technologies – ICSI Rm. Valcea, Romania. She joined ICSI Rm Valcea 20 years ago and in the last 10 years was involved in research activities related to hydrogen and PEM fuel cell technologies. She received her Ph.D. in 2008 in the field of applied mathematics with thesis “Modeling of fluid dynamics in porous media. Mathematical application to fuel cell modeling”. During PhD, thanks to a Marie Curie Fellowship won at Leeds University, UK, she improved her expertise in the field of fluid dynamics simulation with applications for fuel cells. Her entire activity is directed towards finding solutions for optimization of hydrogen technologies and electrochemical devices involved in energy production and storage (fuel cells, electrolysers, batteries) starting from understanding the processes behind those technologies by mathematical modeling and simulations to validation by experimental tests in order to prove the reliability and improve these innovative technologies. Sevreral paperswere published and projects were coordinated in the field of energy production and storage in the last years.
Dr Ivan Halasz graduated in chemistry in 2003 and obtained his PhD in 2008 from the University of Zagreb. Following a two-year post-doc with Robert Dinnebier at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid state Research in Stuttgart, he started as a research scientist at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb in 2012 where he since 2016 holds the position of a senior researcher (equivalent to a associate professor). His interests include solid-state chemistry, solid-state reactivity, mechanochemistry, powder X-ray diffraction, structural characterisation and reaction mechanisms. He published around 70 research papers and coauthored two high-school chemistry textbooks. In 2016 he received the Croatian State Science Award for his contributions in developing in situ methods for the study of mechanochemical reactions.
Prof. Dr Aleksandar Dimitrov received Ph.D. at Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” Skopje in 1997. In 2002 he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from Royal Society and NATO and spent one year at the Department of Material Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge in UK. Before his academic career, Prof. Dimitrov spent four years in industry. From 1999, he is a Professor at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, University SS Cyril and Methodius in Skopje where he was the Dean in period 2007-2015. Prof. Dimitrov was Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Magdeburg, Germany in 2011, Technical University of Austria in 2008 and Oxford Colleges Hospitality Scheme, University of Oxford in 2006. Currently Prof. Dimitrov is the Head of Department of Extractive Metallurgy at his Faculty. His current research interests involve nanostructures and nanotechnologies, carbon nanomaterials, materials characterization, electrochemistry, extractive metallurgy and electrometallurgy.
Dr. Nejc Hodnik completed the Analytical Chemistry program at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana. As a young researcher led by dr. Stanko Hočevar he was employed at the National Institute of Chemistry at the Department of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (D13), which was led by acad. prof. Janez Levec. He received his doctorate in 2013 at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana. He completed post-doctoral education at the Max-Planck Institute in Düsseldorf, Germany under the mentorship of prof. Karl Mayrhofer and prof. Gerhard Dehm as IEF Marie Curie Fellow (2014-2016). Since April 2016 he is employed as a researcher at the National Institute of Chemistry at the Department of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering lead by Dr. Blaža Likozarja in the field of electrocatalysis. He works in close cooperation with the Department of Materials lead by prof. Miran Gaberščka and Department of Analytical Chemistry led by dr. Samot Hočevar. The main purpose of his research work is to establish a superior and stimulating working environment for the research and innovation in the field of electrochemical energy conversion, material transformations and corrosion. He mainly deals with the electrochemical characterization of materials for use in electrochemical devices such as low temperature (PEM) fuel cells and electrolyzers. With this knowledge and experience, he recently started with the topics of recycling of precious metals. He has published 35 articles in international journals (22 as correspondent author), 6 invited lectures at international conferences and institutes, two international patents.
Graduated from the Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Istanbul in 1972, worked for two years in industry, received Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry at the Technical University of Munich in 1976 before joining the Department of Chemistry, Middle East Technical University, Ankara in 1979. He spent one year at the Max Planck Institute in Mülheim a. d. Ruhr as Scholar of Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation in 1986, two years at University of Toronto as visiting professor in 1988-1990, and a total of about 2 years at Colorado State University as Fulbright Fellow in 2000 and 2015. He was awarded Science Prize by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey in 1996 and has been a permanent member of Turkish Academy of Sciences since 1996. His current research interests involve the transition metal nanoparticles; synthesis, characterization, formation kinetics and mechanism, and catalytic uses in hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, oxidation, and particularly hydrogen generation from hydrogen storage materials.