Meeting Materials April 2022 - looking back - M2i - Materials innovation institute

Meeting Materials 5 April 2022
– public event –

We look back at a successful conference with a total of 210 participants on both days.

Due to COVID-19 the December 2021 conference was posponed until April 2022. We aimed for a live conference and we achieved that goal!

This year the Program consists of interesting workshops and presentations.

Meeting Materials is free of charge and open for everyone who is interested in materials development. The conference is an opportunity to learn about the latest insights and developments in the field of innovative and smart materials, along with ways in which these materials can stimulate economic progress and a sustainable society. This day is co-organised with 4TU.HTM and supported by the Bond voor Materialenkennis (BvM).

M2i Conference for community 4 April
– private event by invitation –

The first day of the conference, Monday 4 April, is traditionally only accessible for M2i and its partners. The program consists of an interesting mix of key note presentations about developments in materials innovation and parallel sessions offering an in-depth insight in research projects. For more information about the first day, please visit the M2i intranet.

WAAM Design Contest for Young Engineers

During the annual Meeting Materials conference, Grade2XL held its second open Additive Manufacturing Design Contest for young engineers. For the Grade2XL contest we challenged young professionals and researchers to design a novel, multi-material product that can be printed with wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM). The expert jury had a tough job judging all the designs that were submitted, The winning team will see their idea being realized.

During the live award ceremony the chair of the jury, Marcel Hermans (Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology) and co-chair Constantinos Goulas (Assistant Professor at University of Twente) announced the winning team. Meet the winners of the Grade2XL Design Contest here.

Keynote Speakers

Prof.dr. Ad van Wijk (TU Delft)

Ad van Wijk is part-time Professor Future Energy Systems at TU Delft, the Netherlands. He is guest professor at KWR Water Research Institute to develop and implement the research program Energy and Water. He is special advisor to Hydrogen Europe, representing European industry, national associations and research centers to develop European hydrogen policies with the EU commission. And he holds several advisory and supervisory board positions.

Dr. Paul Behrens (Leiden University)

Paul Behrens is a British author and academic in environmental change at Leiden University. His popular science book, The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science (Indigo Press 2021) describes humanity’s current trajectory and possible futures in paired chapters of pessimism and hope. His research and writing on energy, food, materials, and climate has appeared in scientific journals and media outlets such as The New York Times, Scientific American, Politico, Nature Sustainability, Nature Energy, Nature Food, PNAS and the BBC.

Prof.dr. Albert Polman (AMOLF)

Albert Polman is program leader at the NWO-Institute for functional materials AMOLF, professor of photovoltaic materials at the UvA, co-founder of Delmic BV, and member of the steering committee that composed the Groeifondsproposal Duurzame MaterialenNL with over 300 supporting parties.

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