Conference Description
The Chemical Reactions at Surfaces GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The conference program includes a diverse range of speakers and discussion leaders from institutions and organizations worldwide, concentrating on the latest developments in the field. The conference is five days long and held in a remote location to increase the sense of camaraderie and create scientific communities, with lasting collaborations and friendships. In addition to premier talks, the conference has designated time for poster sessions from individuals of all career stages, and afternoon free time and communal meals allow for informal networking opportunities with leaders in the field.
Chemical reactions at surfaces and catalysis is crucial to avert the expected devastating consequences of global warming and instead promote a sustainable society. Catalysis, governed by chemical reactions at surfaces, is key for this transformation with respect to energy production, storage as well as converting waste products into useful materials. To this end, the GRC chemical reactions at surfaces has been in the forefront for a deeper understanding of such conversions, by attracting world-leading scientists in the field to discuss recent discoveries in a relaxed environment. The 2025 Chemical Reactions at Surfaces will continue this tradition, with a special focus on the connection between model systems, more applied environments as well as “real” samples and real industrial conditions. The meeting will discuss efforts to maintain the knowledge gained from model systems when approaching working conditions for thermal and electrocatalysis. A special focus of the meeting will be on structure-function relationships. Experimentally this is non-trivial, but significant advances during recent years will be discussed. Importantly, recent advances in theoretical modelling of surface reactions which have the potential to propose new materials for improved or new reactions or new approaches to determine and understand surface reactions. Combining experimental and theoretical advances enables the intelligent design of new catalytic materials which will be discussed in a the 2025 Chemical Reactions at Surfaces.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by October 12, 2024. Please check back for updates.
Structure and Stability of Electrode Surfaces
Discussion Leaders
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Axel Gross (Ulm University, Germany)
Speakers
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Herbert Over (Justus Liebig University, Germany)
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Julia Kunze-Liebhäuser (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Absorption Spectroscopy under Reaction Conditions
Discussion Leaders
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Hans-Peter Steinruck (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Speakers
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Lindsay Richard Merte (Malmö University, Sweden)
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Anatoly Frenkel (Stony Brook University / Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States)
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Jeroen A. van Bokhoven (Paul Scherrer Institut / ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Operando X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Discussion Leaders
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Dario Stacchiola (Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States)
Speakers
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Ryo Toyoshima (Keio University, Japan)
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Jan Knudsen (Division of Synchrotron Radiation Research, NanoLund and the MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Sweden)
Modeling of Surface Structure and Function
Discussion Leaders
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Hua Guo (University of New Mexico, United States)
Speakers
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Karsten Reuter (Fritz Haber Institute, Max Planck Society, Germany)
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David Limmer (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
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Bjork Hammer (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Fundamental Studies of Model Catalytic Systems
Discussion Leaders
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Cong Liu (Argonne National Laboratory, United States)
Speakers
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Donna Chen (University of South Carolina, United States)
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Ulrike Diebold (TU Wien, Austria)
Operando Catalysis
Discussion Leaders
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Charles Campbell (University of Washington, United States)
Speakers
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Barbara Lechner (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
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Irene Groot (Leiden Institute of Chemistry, The Netherlands)
Single Atom Catalysis
Discussion Leaders
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Gareth Parkinson (TU Wien, Austria)
Speakers
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Charles Sykes (Tufts University, United States)
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Janos Szanyi (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States)
Surfaces of Renewable Energy Materials and Material Degradation
Discussion Leaders
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Henrik Grönbeck (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Speakers
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Petra Reinke (University of Virginia, United States)
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Líney Árnadóttir (Oregon State University / Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States)
Surface Reactions
Discussion Leaders
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Roger Rousseau (Oak Ridge National Lab, United States)
Speakers
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Swetlana Schauermann (Kiel University, Germany)
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Arthur Utz (Tufts University, United States)
The GRC Power Hour™
Organizers
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Zbynek Novotny (PNNL, United States)