Program 2024

October 10th, 2024


Hosts: Prof. Dr. Karin Everschor-Sitte, Prof. Dr. Doris Segets, Prof. Dr. Torben Weis


Sessions with tandems formed by an academic and an industry speaker, 20 minutes each, followed by 10 minutes Q+A; two Keynote Talks from Academia and Industry at the end

Language: English


Booklet (PDF 1.2 MB)

8:30 Arrival and registration | Welcoming coffee

09:00 - 09:45 | Welcome and Scientific Keynote


09:45 - 10:45

The Underestimated Revolution: On the transformative power of AI and our struggle to understand it

Prof. Dr. Frederik Ahlemann
Information Systems and Strategic IT Management, University of Duisburg-Essen

09:45 - 10:45 | Session I. Data Storage, Acquisition and Quality


09:45 - 10:45

FAIR Research Data Management in Materials Science with FAIRmat and NOMAD

Dr. Ahmed Mansour
Coordinator “User Support, Training and Outreach” NFDI FAIRmat, Humboldt University of Berlin

09:45 - 10:45

Anchoring AI solutions for customers in manufacturing companies

Dr. Dagmar Dirzus
Vice President AI & Platform Business, KROHNE Messtechnik

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break

Alternative Perspective to Valorize the Municipal Solid Waste Incineration (MSWI) Bottom Ash for Metal and Cement Industries

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 | Session II. Materials Processes: From Automation to Autonomous


13:30 - 14:30

Machine Learning Methods Applied to Emerging Solar Cell Research

Prof. Dr. Thomas Kirchartz
Chair of “Electrical Engineering and Information Technology” at Universität Duisburg-Essen, head of department “Analytics and Simulation” at Research Centre Jülich

13:30 - 14:30

Enhanced experimental workflows for providing industrially relevant data to accelerated materials R&D

Florian Huber
hte GmbH – the high throughput experimentation company

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break and Poster-Session

13:00 – 14:00 | Session III. Materials Informatics


11:00 - 12:00

Generative microstructure reconstruction and generation via stable diffusion

Yixuan Zhang
Theory of magnetic Materials, TU Darmstadt

11:00 - 12:00

Accelerating materials design with AI emulators and generators

Dr. Tian Xie
Microsoft Research AI4Science (recorded talk)

14:00 – 15:00 | Industry Keynote


09:45 - 10:45

How can artificial intelligence make specialty chemicals smarter and faster?

Dr. Henrik Hahn
Chief Digital Officer, Evonik

15:00 – 15:30 | Reception / Coffee & Snacks

TICKETS: 10th RUHR-Symposium

Artificial Intelligence for Functional Materials