4TU.Energy Community Day 2025

Energy & Materials Transition - one and the same problem?

4TU.Energy invites you to their Annual Community Day 2025!

During the day you will learn about the Energy & Materials Transition, be inspired by speakers, have the opportunity to present your research poster, and there will be ample opportunity to meet fellow researchers from the top universities of technology. 

Preliminary Program

10:00 Walk-in and Poster hang-up (tape will be provided)

10:45 Welcome speech – David Smeulders | Scientific Director 4TU.Energy

11:00 Presentation I:

Moniek Tromp | Director Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials and Full Prof. Materials Chemistry ·  RUG

11:30 Presentation II:

Gerard van der Laan | Research Manager Circularity & Sustainability Impact | Unit Energy & Materials Transition · TNO

12:00 Group photo and Lunch

13:00 Pitch presentation of projects funded by 4TU.Energy

• Congcong Sun | Community Building | Horticulture in Energy Transition
• Keerthi Rajamani | Rapid Research | Magnetic-Ionocaloric Heat Pump System
• Tingting Zhu | Community Building | Energy Information Interaction Club
• Thomas Weinhart | Rapid Research | Thermo-Chemically Active Granular Materials

14:00 Presentation III:

Benjamin Sprecher | Assistant Prof. Sustainable Design, Environmental Impacts & Circular Economy ·  TUDelft

14:30 Poster pitch (Presentation template will be provided) | Chair: Eli Shirazi

15:30 Poster market and Break 

16:00 Matching sessions

• Technical challenges and solutions for Energy Materials | Chair: Akbar Asadi Tashvigh
• Manufacturing challenges – circularity, design-to-recycle, LCA | Chair: Harry Bitter
• Geopolitical dependencies & transition scenarios | Chair: Mark Boneschanscher     

The day will end around 17.00 with networking, drinks and snacks.

Please note

Registration is mandatory. Please register before 13 March 2025. FULL = FULL.