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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Dec 30, 2026
Extended Early Bird Ends: May 28, 2026

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Giorgos P. Tsironis
University of Crete, Greece
Title: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Quantum Materials and Metamaterials
Giorgos P. Tsironis is Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics of the University of Crete in Greece and also leads the Nonlinear and Statistical Physics Group at IESL-FORTH. He obtained his PhD in Theoretical Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics from the University of Rochester (USA) in 1987. He was a postdoctoral associate at the University of California San Diego (1987-89) and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (1989-91) and assistant professor of Physics at the University of North Texas (1991-96) while also affiliated with the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory (1991-1993). He joined the Department of Physics of the University of Crete in 1994 as associate professor and became professor in 2000. He was visiting professor of the University of Barcelona in Spain (2000-1 and 2006-7) and Technion in Haifa, Israel ( 2013 and 2014), professor at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan (2014-15) while more recently he has been visiting fellow, visiting professor and affiliated scientist at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of Harvard University (2017-19 and 2022-present) and Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University (2018).

His research interests are in the areas of condensed matter physics, statistical mechanics, nonlinear physics, complexity, biological physics and metamaterials. In 1997 he was awarded the international Stephanos Pnevmatikos award for his “many contributions to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and the theory of solitons in non-linear lattices, with applications to molecular crystals and biophysics”. His recent interests involve the role of nonlinearities and breathers in superconducting as well as quantum metamataterials. He has published over 200 papers in refereed journals while he (co-)organized a number of international conferences, workshops and advanced summer schools in the area of statistical mechanics and non-linear physics. During his career so far, he mentored 15 PhD students, many of which are currently holding faculty positions in academia.

Since 2018 his research and teaching is focusing on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in complex systems. He established a sequence of two undergraduate courses “Introduction to Data Science and Machine Learning” that are being taught at the University of Crete and were also taught in the National University of Science and Technology MISiS in Moscow, Russia both in class and remotely. In 2021 he also established an International Master program at the Greek Open University on Data Science and Machine Learning. On the research front he has used AI in medical and biological applications, such as cardiology, COVID-19 virus spreading and neurodegenerative diseases, in detecting chimeras in complex, spatiotemporal networks as well as in quantum targeting processes.

In terms of administration positions, he has served as director of the University of Crete Computer Center (2003-09), chairman of the Department of Physics of the University of Crete (2007-2011), acting chair of the Department of Physics, Nazarbayev University (2014-15) and deputy rector of the University of Crete (2016-17). He has established and directs the Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology which at the initial stage (2013-2017) has been funded by EU. Since September 2020 he is also the director of the Institute for Theoretical and Computational Physics that is affiliated with the University of Crete.
Prof. Alberta Bonanni
Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Title: A Journey with Quantum Materials
Alberta Bonanni is an Italian-born physicist specializing in solid-state physics and quantum materials. She studied physics in Trieste-Italy and spent a few years as researcher at the University of Minnesota-USA. She is currently full professor, head of the Institute for Semiconductor and Solid State Physics, President of the Austrian Physucal Society and Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs of the Johannes Kepler University – Linz (Austria).
Prof. Jonas Fransson
Uppsala University, Sweden
Title: Magnetic interactions mediated by phonons and electrons
Research Interests
Non-equilibrium condensed matter physics with special attention to the modeling of nanostructures systems and local probing techniques. Particular focus is directed on impurity scattering in two-dimensional systems, where the impurities possess bosonic (vibrational, spin, ...) degrees of freedom which give rise to inelastic scattering processes. Interactions between local defects adsorbed onto surface of modern materials e.g. superconductors, graphene, topological insulators, strongly spin-orbit coupled surfaces, and hidden order materials. At the moment my devotion is set to chiral induced spin selectivity, where spatial and spin degrees of freedom cooperate with electron correlations and vibrations to generate a macroscopically measurable spin asymmetry in the charge current.
Prof. Liling Sun
Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), China
Title: To be confirmed
Liling Sun, a condensed matter physicist, specializes in strongly correlated electron systems, with a particular emphasis on elucidating the mechanisms of unconventional superconductivity using high-pressure methods. She served as a full professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, starting from 2005. In 2024, she joined the Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR). She has published over 180 papers in peer review scientific journals (H index is 45), including Nature, Nature Physics, Nature communications, PNAS, Reports on Progress in Physics, Physics Review Letters and Advanced Materials etc, and delivered over 80 invited talks. Professor Sun is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Dr. Di Peng
Shanghai Advanced Research in Physical Sciences (SHARPS), China
Title: Will Update Soon
Since entering the PhD program in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2017, the applicant has dedicated himself to exploring novel high-temperature superconductors and their microscopic mechanisms. Leveraging independently developed in-situ high-pressure techniques, he has delivered groundbreaking contributions to nickelate superconductors. He has published 16 first/co-first/corresponding author papers in top journals including Nature (2), Nature Physics, Physical Review X (3), etc., with 4 listed as ESI Highly Cited Papers. He systematically discovered bulk superconductivity in trilayer, bilayer and hybrid bilayer nickelate single crystals under pressure, and provided definitive experimental evidence for d-wave pairing symmetry and nearly isotropic properties in nickelate superconductors. Pioneering a helium-based hydrostatic pressure research system, he established a new paradigm for high-pressure superconductivity studies. His achievements earned him the 2025 MRE and IUCr Young Scientist Awards, and he has delivered numerous invited talks at major international conferences.
Prof. Huixia Luo
Sun Yat-sen University, China
Title: To be confirmed.
Huixia Luo is a Full Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University and a member of the Specialized Committee on Women Scientists of the World Association of Young Scientists. She received her Ph.D. from Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, in 2012. She then conducted postdoctoral research in the group of Prof. Robert Cava at Princeton University from 2012 to 2016. In late 2016, she joined Sun Yat-sen University, where she currently leads the Quantum Functional Materials Group as its Principal Investigator.

Her research focuses on superconductors, magnetic materials, topological materials, topological quantum catalysis, and other inorganic functional materials. She has published over 130 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious journals including Nature Physics Review, Nature Communications, PNAS, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Advanced Materials. Over the past five years, she has authored more than 80 papers as first or corresponding author, among which two are ESI highly cited papers. She holds over 20 invention patent applications. As the sole editor-in-chief, she has edited two English monographs and contributed five book chapters. She also serves as a Young Editorial Board member for journals including The Innovation Physics. She has been consecutively named to the World's Top 2% Scientists list for 2024 and 2025, and has received the Young Scientist Award from the Guangdong Society of Materials Research (2022) as well as the International IAAM Medal.
Prof. Arthur Haozhe Liu
HPSTAR, China
Title: Structural evolution of materials under pressure
Prof. Dr. Arthur Haozhe Liu is staff scientist at the Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR) since 2014. He graduated from Jilin University, China in 1991, and received his Ph. D from Institute of Metal Research, CAS in 1997. He had working experience on high pressure projects at following institutions: Harbin Institute of Technology, China (2007-2014), HPCAT at APS, Carnegie Institution of Washington/Argonne National Laboratory (2003-2007); Mineral Physics Institute, Stony Brook University/X17 Beamline, NSLS, Brookhaven National Laboratory (2002-2003); Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (2000-2001); and Institute of Physics, CAS (1997-1999). Prof. Liu served as co-chair in the AIRAPT-26 Conference in 2017, and LAM-15 Conference in 2013, respectively. He also served as the Chair of IUCr High Pressure Commission during 2017 – 2021, and executive committee member of AIRAPT during 2017-2023. He currently served as co-editor of Journal of Applied Crystallography, Acting Chair of Asian Conference of High Pressure Research.
Dr. Guangdi Zhou
Quantum Science Center of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao
Title: Development of Complex Oxide Epitaxy and Applications to Superconducting Bilayer Nickelates
Dr. Guangdi Zhou received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research focusing on novel unconventional superconductivity at the Southern University of Science and Technology. In April 2025, he joined the Quantum Science Center of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as an Associate Researcher.

He has over nine years of experience in various plasma technologies for epitaxial thin-film growth. He maintains a broad interest in the physical processes and applications of low-temperature plasmas. Currently, his research focuses on the epitaxial growth of superconducting thin films and the investigation of their underlying physics.
Prof. Marie-Bernadette Lepetit
Néel Institut, Grenoble, France
Title: Small-data physics-informed ML model for magnetic exchange based on chemical composition and structure
CNRS Director of research in the Néel Institut, Grenoble France since 2012, MB Lepetit previously worked in the CRISMAt laboratory, Caen, France (2005-20012) and the Quantum Physics laboratory Toulouse, France(1988-2004). She is currently head of the Institut Laue Langevin (European neutrons source) Theory group. MB Lepetit is a Condensed Matter Theoretician, specialist of strong electronic correlation. Her research interests are in the understanding of the chemical content / structure / properties relationships. In addition of the study of strongly correlated quantum materials she has been developing ab-initio methods and more recently machine learning methods for the treatment of such systems.
Prof. Yonatan Dubi
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Title: Magnetism at hybrid interfaces: a new take on old results
Yonatan Dubi is a Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, where he leads the Theoretical Nano-Science group. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Ben-Gurion University (2007) and held postdoctoral positions at the University of California–San Diego, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Tel-Aviv University before joining BGU as faculty in 2012. His research focuses on the theory of quantum transport and energy flow at the nanoscale, with particular emphasis on molecular junctions, plasmonic photocatalysis, hot-carrier physics, and the chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect. He is the recipient of multiple awards including the Intel Award for Outstanding Graduate Student (2006), the Charles Kittel Award (American Physical Society, 2007 & 2008) and the Wolf Doundation's Krill Prize (2017) , and has authored over 90 peer-reviewed publications with more than 4,300 citations (h-index 32).
Prof. Saikat Banerjee
University of Greifswald, Germany
Title: Light-driven octupolar inverse Faraday effect and multipolar order in Mott insulators
Saikat Banerjee is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and Habilitation candidate at the Institute of Physics, University of Greifswald, Germany. His research focuses on hidden order and tunable quantum materials in correlated spin-orbit-entangled systems, including multipolar order, quantum spin liquids, topological phases, unconventional superconductivity, and Kondo/Mott materials. He develops microscopic theories using analytical many-body methods, symmetry analysis, effective Hamiltonians, Floquet and Schrieffer-Wolff transformations, and numerical approaches such as exact diagonalization. Before joining Greifswald, he held postdoctoral positions at Rutgers University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the University of Augsburg. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. His work has appeared in journals including Phys. Rev. X, npj Quantum Mater., Commun. Phys., SciPost Phys. and Phys. Rev. B (Letter).
Prof. Martin Ostoja-Starzewski
Cracow University of Technology, Poland
Title: Thermomechanics of Odd Solid and Fluid Matter
Martin Ostoja-Starzewski currently serves as a Professor at the Cracow University of Technology and as a Research Professor and Richard W. Kritzer Faculty Scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses primarily on stochastic mechanics, random and fractal media, continuum theories, and applied physics. He (co-)authored 260+ journal papers and four books. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Thermal Stresses and has also served as an editor or editorial board member of numerous other journals (e.g., Acta Mechanica, Mechanics Research Communications, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering). His distinctions include the Timoshenko Distinguished Visitor at Stanford University, Worcester Reed Warner Medal of ASME, Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Isaac Newton Institute (University of Cambridge), Fellow of ASME, Society of Engineering Science, Associate Fellow of AIAA, and memberships in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Academia Europaea, and Polish Academy of Sciences.