2025 programme
13 February 2025
Keynotes
Murielle Ålund - Researcher, Uppsala University, Sweden
Topic: Evolutionary biology
Murielle Ålund is a researcher passionate about evolution, and particularly how changes in climate affect animal physiology, reproduction and survival, how these changes affect interactions between species and the consequences for biodiversity. More about Murielle Ålund...
Evelyne Daubie - Researcher, University of Mons, Belgium
Topic: Particle physics
Evelyne Daubie's latest research involves studying the interaction and detection of ionizing radiation in silicon-based devices, in close collaboration with the Electronics and Microelectronics Units at the Faculty of Engineering. She is currently working on reconstructing the historical radiation measurement experiment conducted by Pierre and Marie Curie using a quadrant electrometer. More about Evelyne Daubie...
Short talks
Sophie Fortz | King’s College London, UK
Topic: Quantum programming
Sophie is a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in software engineering. Currently, she is deeply involved in quantum programming as part of the VSL-Q project at King’s College London. She obtained her PhD in Software engineering at theUniversity of Namur in 2023. More about Sophie Fortz...
Pilar Lopez Varo | Institut Photovoltaïque d'Île-de-France (IPVF), Paris, France
Topic: Modelling of Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells, and Organic Thin Film Transistors
Pilar Lopez Varo is an electronic engineer and postdoc researcher in physics-engineering specialized in modelling and experimental characterization of the current and future generation of perovskite and organic solar cells. More about Pilar Lopez Varo...
Eléonore Robinson | Faculty EMCP, University of Namur, Belgium
Topic : Sociology
Éléonore is a teaching assistant and PhD student in sociology. She specializes in gender studies and the sociology of labour. For her thesis, she investigates how social representations and professional socialization in the IT sector tend to exclude women and older workers. She earned her bachelor’s in sociology and anthropology, specializing in environment and development. In 2019, she received her master’s degree in sociology. Her master’s thesis was about the Lack of diversity in the IT sector: Configurations of singular career paths for women.
Valentina Spampinato | Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Catania, Italy
Topic: Material sciences
Valentina Spampinato, currently assistant professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Catania, Italy, is a materials scientist whose work mainly focuses on the physico-chemical characterization of different kinds of materials and surfaces by means of Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry. More about Valentina Spampinato...
Tentative programme
08:30 | Coffee breakfast, welcome, registration and poster display
09:30 | Opening remarks
09:45 | Keynote #1 | Murielle Ålund
10:30 | Short talk #1
10:50 | Coffee break
11:10 | Short talk #2
11:30 | Talk by a sponsor
11:45 | Flash talk session
12:20 | Voting audience
12:30 | Lunch
14:15 | Keynote #2 | Evelyne Daubie
15:00 | Short talk #3
15:20 | Short talk #4
15:40 | Short talk #5
16:00 | Coffee break
16:30 | Panel session
17:00 | Awards and closing remarks
17:30 | Drink and networking session