When: 7 – 11 April 2025
Where: Walvis Bay, Namibia
Chem4Energy is pleased to announce the 2025 Conference on ‘Materials and Processes for a Sustainable Energy Future’, to be held in Walvis Bay, South Africa, on Monday 7 – Friday 11 April 2025.
The Chem4Energy community has grown out of a number of collaborative UK-Africa consortium programmes and 2025 will see the fourth in this series of annual meetings, which focus in particular on
- Highlighting the synergy between experiment and computation
- Offering opportunities for early career researchers to disseminate their work in oral and poster presentations
- Allowing plenty of opportunity for discussion of the research presentations
The Chem4Energy conferences aim to bring together local academic and industrial researchers and developers from Namibia with colleagues from Europe, the USA and further afield, to discuss the latest developments in sustainable energy materials and processes, build new collaborations, and influence and support future directions in the field of sustainable energy research.
Abstracts for oral or poster presentation are now invited. Full details of the submission process are available on the conference website.
Although contributions in all areas within the Chem4Energy remit are welcome, core themes of the 2025 meeting include:
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis for clean energy production
- CO2 capture and utilisation
- Materials for solar energy devices
- Nuclear energy
- Hydrogen production, storage and transport
- High-performance computing in energy research
Keynote speakers (announced to-date):
- Professor Richard Catlow, University College London and Cardiff University, UK
- Professor Graham Hutchings, Cardiff University, UK
- Professor James Darkwa, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Key Dates:
Call for abstracts: Monday 21 July 2024
Registration open: Monday 21 July 2024
Abstract submission deadline for oral or poster presentation: Friday 1 November 2024
Bursary applications: Friday 8 November 2024
Abstract acceptance notification (oral or poster): Friday 22 November 2024
Registration deadline for presenting authors: Friday 17 January 2025
Registration closes: Friday 14 February 2025
Bursary Applications:
Chem4Energy will be able to award one student with a bursary to include the registration fee, accommodation and travel expenses. This bursary is kindly sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Each applicant needs to submit a research statement (up to half a page) and presentation abstract (half page), with no less than 2cm margins and font size of at least Calibri 10 or similar, as well as a full CV. Applicants are usually studying for a PhD research degree and need to be within 10 years of obtaining their undergraduate degree to be eligible for a bursary. Please note, the bursary will not be paid directly to the awardee.
Applications should be submitted to Chem4Energy@leeds.ac.uk by Friday 8 November 2024.
Please take the time to explore the conference website for details on key dates; abstract submission; registration and accommodation; and to keep yourself informed of any changes. If you have any questions or enquiries after visiting the site please email the Conference Secretariat Chem4Energy@leeds.ac.uk.