SPECIAL SESSIONS

Special Session 1 FLUID FLOW, ENERGY TRANSFER & DESIGN (SS1)	Organiser(s): Prof. Antonio F. Miguel University of Evora, Portugal Prof. Claudia Naldi University of Bologna, Italy
Special Session 2 FUNDAMENTAL DIFFUSION PROCESSES, REACTIONS AND PHASE STABILITY IN MATERIALS (SS2)	Organiser(s): Apl.-Prof. Dr. Sergiy Divinski University of Münster, Germany Prof. Dr. Aloke Paul IISc Bangalore, India
Special Session 3 NON-CONVENTIONAL METHODS OF SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS (SS3)	Organiser(s): Dr. Antoine Barbier Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, CNRS, SPEC France Dr. Andrei Salak University of Aveiro, CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials Portugal
Special Session 4 INTERFACES IN CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS: STRUCTURE, THERMODYNAMICS, KINETICS, AND ALLOYING EFFECTS (SS4)	Organiser(s): Prof. Fadi Abdeljawad Northwestern University, USA Apl.-Prof. Dr. Sergiy Divinski University of Münster, Germany Prof. Christian Liebscher Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Special Session 5 DIFFUSION AND IONIC CONDUCTION IN INORGANIC COMPOUNDS (SS5)	Organiser(s): Prof. Manfred Martin RWTH Aachen University, Germany Prof. Steffen Neitzel-Grieshammer FH Münster University of Applied Science, Germany
Special Session 7 DIFFUSION IN MICRO, MESO, AND MACROPORES AND ITS APPLICATIONS (SS7)	Organiser(s): Prof. João Delgado University of Porto, Portugal Prof. Gilson Barbosa de Lima Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
Special Session 8 FUNDAMENTAL TO APPLICATIONS OF LOW-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS (SS8)	Prof. Gregory Kozlowski, D.Sc. Wright State University, USA Dr. John Boeckl Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, AFRL, USA Prof. Thierry Angot Université d’Aix-Marseille, France Dr. Francesca Iacopi IMEC, USA
Special Session 9 COMPUTATIONAL/THEORETICAL MODELING OF DIFFUSION KINETICS IN MATERIALS (SS9)	Organiser(s): Dr. Xi Zhang University of Stuttgart, Germany Prof. Liang Qi University of Michigan, USA Prof. Penghui Cao University of California, USA Prof. Anton Van Der Ven University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Special Session 10 HYDROGEN AND WATER-RELATED KINETICS IN MATERIALS (SS10)	Organiser(s): Dr. Markus Wilde Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Special Session 11 INNOVATIVE CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR 2D MATERIALS AND BEYOND (SS11)	Organiser(s): Prof. Keesam Shin Changwon National University, S. Korea Prof. Mark H. Rümmeli VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Germany Prof. Alicja Bachmatiuk Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Special Session 12 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN SUSTAINABLE ENERGY METHODS (SS12)	Organiser(s): Prof. Shelley Lorimer MacEwan University, Canada A/Prof. Hassan Soleimani Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia