OSLO 2025

[ WATOC 2025: June 22–27, Oslo, Norway ]

[ Young WATOC: June 21 ]

 

 

SPEAKERS

[ WATOC Speakers ]



[ Young WATOC Lectures ]

Name University Country
Marcos Casanova-Páez Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (MPI Mühlheim) Germany
Leonardo Dos Anjos Cunha Center For Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ), Flatiron Institute USA
Fabian Faulstich Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) USA
Martí Gimferrer Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Germany
Nina Glaser University of Copenhagen Denmark
Laura Grazioli École nationale des ponts et chaussées (ENPC) France
Stefan Gugler Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) Germany
Frank Hu Stanford University USA
Mariia Ivonina Kyushu University Japan
Ben McLean Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) Australia
Torsha Moitra Comenius University Bratislava Slovakia
Sergio Moles Quintero Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Belgium
Madhubanti Mukherjee École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland
Róża Okoń Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Spain
Enric Petrus Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG) Switzerland
Miguel Steiner Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) Germany
Rebecca Tomann University of California, Berkeley USA
Ji Woong Yu Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) South Korea

[ Plenary Lectures ]

Katharina Boguslawski Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń Poland
Thomas Jagau KU Leuven Belgium
Heather Kulik Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA
Luhua Lai Peking University China
Jan Martin Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
Edit Mátyus Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Hungary
Mario Motta IBM Research Yorktown USA
Frank Neese Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (MPI Mühlheim) Germany
Michele Parrinello ETH Zürich & IIT Switzerland
Gustavo Scuseria Rice University USA
Alexander Sokolov Ohio State University USA
Veronique van Speybroeck Universiteit Gent Belgium

[ Invited Lectures ]

Federica Agostini Université Paris-Saclay (UPS) France
Ali Alavi Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung & University of Cambridge Germany & UK
Anastassia Alexandrova University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) USA
Gustavo Adolfo Aucar Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE) Argentina
Paul Ayers McMaster University Canada
Robert Berger Philipps-Universität Marburg Germany
Debra Bernhardt University of Queensland Australia
Elena Besley University of Nottingham UK
Maria Besora Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) Spain
Matthias Bickelhaupt Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) Netherlands
Sara Bonella CECAM & École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland
Ataualpa Braga Universidade de São Paulo (USP) Brazil
Irene Burghardt Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main Germany
Kieron Burke University of California, Irvine (UCI) USA
Éric Cances École des Ponts ParisTech France
Roberto Car Princeton University USA
Gloria I. Cárdenas-Jirón Universidad de Santiago de Chile Chile
Garnet Chan California Institute of Technology (Caltech) USA
Ove Christiansen Aarhus Univerisity Denmark
Jeanet Conradie University of the Free State (UFS) South Africa
Sonia Coriani Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Denmark
Clémence Corminbœuf École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland
Zoe Cournia Academy of Athens Greece
Kaline Coutinho Universidade de São Paulo (USP) Brazil
Daniel Crawford Virginia Tech USA
Gábor Csányi University of Cambridge UK
Attila Császár Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Hungary
Qiang Cui Boston University USA
Matteo Dal Peraro École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland
Frank de Proft Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Belgium
Marco De Vivo Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) Italy
Taye Demissie University of Botswana Botswana
Cristiana Di Valentin Università degli Studi di Milano–Bicocca Italy
Marie-Liesse Doublet CNRS/Université de Montpellier France
Fernanda Duarte University of Oxford UK
Janus Juul Eriksen Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Denmark
Ferran Feixas Gerones Universitat de Girona (UdG) Spain
Maria-Andreea Filip University of Cambridge UK
Karin Fink Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Germany
Luca Frediani UIT The Arctic University of Norway Norway
Daan Frenkel University of Cambridge UK
Emmanuel Fromager Université de Strasbourg France
Laura Gagliardi University of Chicago USA
Annia Galano Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Mexico
Jiali Gao Shenzhen Bay Laboratory & University of Minnesota China & USA
Yi Qin Gao Peking University China
Nicola Gaston University of Auckland New Zealand
Jürgen Gauss Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU) Germany
Abhik Ghosh UIT The Arctic University of Norway Norway
Debashree Ghosh Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) Kolkata India
Peter Gill University of Sydney Australia
Leticia González Universität Wien Austria
Paola Gori Giorgi Microsoft Research AI for Science Netherlands
Andreas Görling Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen–Nürnberg Germany
Marco Govoni Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia Italy
Stefan Grimme Universität Bonn Germany
Hardy Gross Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) Israel
Miho Hatanaka Keio University Japan
Martin Head-Gordon University of Califorina, Berkeley USA
Teresa Head-Gordon University of Califorina, Berkeley USA
Fahmi Himo Stockholm University Sweden
Paula Homem-de-Mello Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)  Brazil
Ida-Marie Høyvik Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Norway
Artur Izmaylov University of Toronto Canada
ED Jemmis Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore India
Jan Halborg Jensen University of Copenhagen Denmark
Vidar Jensen University of Bergen Norway
Erin Johnson Dalhousie University Canada
Hannes Jónsson University of Iceland Iceland
William Jorgensen Yale University USA
Yousung Jung Seoul National University (SNU) South Korea
Pavel Jungwirth IOCB Prague, Czech Academy of Sciences Czech Republic
Subha Kalyaanamoorthy University of Waterloo Canada
Lynn Kamerlin Georgia Tech & Lund University USA & Sweden
Ivan Kassal University of Sydney Australia
Martin Kaupp Technische Universität Berlin (TU München) Germany
Matthias Kick Fritz-Haber-Institut Germany
Wim Klopper Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Germany
Henrik Koch Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Norway
Jacek Komasa Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Poland
Boris Kozinsky Harvard University USA
Sebastian Kozuch Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Israel
Georg Kresse Universität Wien Austria
Anna Krylov University of Southern California (USC) USA
Damien Laage École normale supérieure (Paris) France
Tangui Le Bahers École normale supérieure de Lyon France
Susi Lehtola University of Helsinki Finland
Shuhua Li Nanjing University China
WanZhen Liang Xiamen University China
Lin Lin University of Califonria, Berkeley USA
Roland Lindh Uppsala University Sweden
Filippo Lipparini Università degli Studi di Pisa Italy
Jian Liu Peking University China
Wenjian Liu Shandong University China
Núria López Institut Català d'Investigació Química (ICIQ) Spain
Yi Luo Heifei National Laboratory & KTH Royal Institute of Technology China
Jing Ma Nanjing University China
Stuart Macgregor University of St Andrews UK
Satoshi Maeda Hokkaido University Japan
Alessandra Magistrato Istituto Officina dei Materiali (CNR-IOM) Italy
Anders Malthe-Sørenssen University of Oslo Norway
Fernando Martín García Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) Spain
Feliu Maseras Institut Català d'Investigació Química (ICIQ) Spain
Evert Jan Meijer Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) Netherlands
Benedetta Mennucci Università degli Studi di Pisa Italy
Gabriel Merino Cinvestav Mérida Mexico
Emi Minamitani Osaka University Japan
Hiromi Nakai Waseda University Japan
Akira Nakayama University of Tokyo Japan
Patrick Norman KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden
Christian Ochsenfeld Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) Germany
Modesto Orozco Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) Spain
Francesco Paesani University of California, San Diego (UCSD) USA
Alicia Palacios Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) Spain
Julien Panetier Binghamton University USA
Sergio Pantano Institut Pasteur de Montevideo Uruguay
Biswarup Pathak Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore India
Katarzyna Pernal Lodz University of Technology Poland
Piotr Piecuch Michigan State University USA
Mario Piris Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) Spain
Guntram Rauhut Universität Stuttgart Germany
Markus Reiher Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich Switzerland
Françoise Remacle L’université de Liège (ULiège) Belgium
Michal Repisky Comenius University Bratislava Slovakia
Jean-Louis Reymond Universität Bern Switzerland
Jan Řezáč IOCB Prague, Czech Academy of Sciences Czech Republic
Ursula Röthlisberger École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland
Carme Rovira Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Spain
Dennis Salahub University of Calgary Canada
Trond Saue CNRS/Univesité de Toulouse France
Philippe Sautet University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) USA
Fritz Schaefer University of Georgia USA
Peter Schwerdtfeger Massey University New Zealand
Annabella Selloni Princeton University USA
Wataru Shinoda Okayama University Japan
Zhigang Shuai Chinese University of Hong Kong China
Samira Siahrostami Simon Fraser University (SFU) Canada
Eunji Sim Yonsei University South Korea
Bastian Skjelstad University of Oxford UK
Benjamin Stamm Universität Stuttgart Germany
Stella Stopkowicz Universität des Saarlandes Germany
Joseph Subotnik Princeton University USA
Dage Sundholm University of Helsinki Finland
Raghavan Sunoj Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay India
Peter Taylor Tianjin University China
Seiichiro Ten-no Kobe University Japan
Alexandre Tkatchenko Université du Luxembourg Luxembourg
Mark Tuckerman New York University (NYU) USA
Miroslav Urban Comenius University Bratislava Slovakia
Morgane Vacher Nantes Université France
Jiří Vaníček École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland
Kumar Vanka National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) Pune India
Stefano Vanni Université de Fribourg Switzerland
Luuk Visscher Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) Netherlands
Konstantinos Vogiatzis University of Tennessee USA
Anatole von Lilienfeld University of Toronto Canada
Stefan Vučković University of Fribourg Switzerland
David Wales University of Cambridge UK
Jin Wen Donghua University China
Julia Westermayr Universität Leipzig Germany
Birgitta Whaley University of Califonria, Berkeley USA
Andrew Wibowo-Teale University of Nottingham UK
Weitao Yang Duke University USA
Dominika Zgid University of Michigan USA
Eva Zurek University of Buffalo USA

[ Invited Communications ]

Derek Ahneman IBM Research Bethesda USA
Maristella Alessio KU Leuven Belgium
Amin Alibakhshi Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)  Italy
Mercedes Alonso Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Belgium
Dirk Andrae Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) Germany
Amanda Arcidiacono Università degli Studi di Pisa Italy
Enrique Manuel Arpa Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen) Germany
Michele Assante  AstraZeneca & University of Cambridge UK
Jochen Blumberger University College London (UCL) UK
A. Daniel Boese Universität Graz Austria
Tomáš Bučko Comenius University Bratislava & Slovak Academy of Sciences Slovakia
Jordi Buils Institut Català d'Investigació Química (ICIQ) Spain
Hugh Burton University College London (UCL) UK
Sofia Canola Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Czech Republic
Marco Caricato University of Kansas USA
Virginia Carnevali École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland
David Carrasco De Busturia KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden
Mariastella Cascone Scuola Normale Superiore Italy
Davide Castaldo Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich Switzerland
Jun-Ho Choi Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) South Korea
João Coimbra Associated Laboratory for Green Chemistry (LAQV) of REQUIMTE Portugal
Maurício Domingues Coutinho Neto Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)  Brazil
Shubhajit Das Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) Germany
Samaneh Davoudi École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland
Jacques K Desmarais Università degli Studi di Torino Italy
Silvia Di Grande Scuola Normale Superiore & Scuola Superiore Meridionale Italy
Cedrix Jurgal Dongmo Foumthuim Università degli Studi di Padova Italy
Lucien Dupuy Université de Strasbourg France
Achintya Kumar Dutta Comenius University Bratislava Slovakia
Francesco Evangelista Emory University USA
Jonathan Fetherolf Princeton University USA
Sarai Dery Folkestad Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Norway
Arno Förster Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) Netherlands
Thomas Froitzheim Universität Bonn Germany
Ana Gamiz-Hernandez Stockholm University Sweden
Aaron Garrison Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA
Michael Gillhofer Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU) Austria
Lars Goerigk University of Melbourne Australia
Dermot Green Queen's University Belfast UK
Andreas Hansen Universität Bonn Germany
Erik Donovan Hedegård University of Southern Denmark (SDU) Denmark
John Herbert Ohio State University USA
Gyula Hoffka Lund University & University of Debrecen Hungary
Philip Hoggan Institut Pascal, Université Clermont Auvergne France
Johannes Hoja Universität Graz Austria
Bang Huynh University of Oxford UK
Petra Imhof Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen–Nürnberg Germany
Nazanin Jamshidi Sharif University of Technology (SUT) Iran
Hans Jørgen Aa. Jensen University of Southern Denmark (SDU) Denmark
Joakim Jestilä Aalto University Finalnd
Ken Jordan University of Pittsburgh USA
Adil Kabylda Université du Luxembourg Luxembourg
Antti Karttunen Aalto University Finland
Allison Keys Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA
Marios-Petros Kitsaras CNRS/Université de Toulouse France
Tatiana Korona University of Warsaw Poland
Tim Kowalczyk Western Washington University USA
Karol Kowalski Pacific Northwest National Laboratory USA
Elfi Kraka Southern Methodist University  USA
Oliver Kühn Universität Rostock Germany
Yuki Kurashige Kyoto University Japan
Seungjae Kwak Seoul National University (SNU) South Korea
Ashique Lal Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) Netherlands
Henrik Larsson University of California, Merced USA
Andrea Levy École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland
Haobo Li Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore
Tuanan C. Lourenço Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)  Brazil
Momir Mališ Universität Zürich Switzerland
Melissa Manetsch Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA
Ádám Margócsy Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Hungary
Angel Martín Pendás Universidad de Oviedo Spain
Boris Maryasin Universität Wien Austria
Eduard Matito Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) Spain
Wataru Matsuoka Hokkaido University Japan
Éva Zsuzsanna Mihálka Comenius University Bratislava Slovakia
Dana Nachtigallová IOCB Prague, Czech Academy of Sciences Czech Republic
Masataka Nagaoka Nagoya University Japan
Kevin Naidoo University of Cape Town South Africa
Marco Nascimento Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Brazil
Tommaso Nottoli Università degli Studi di Pisa Italy
Meagan Oakley University of Manchester UK
Itai Panas Chalmers University of Technology Sweden
Konrad Patkowski Auburn University USA
Ansgar Pausch Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) Netherlands
Andrea Pérez-Villa Bayer SAS France
GiovanniMaria Piccini Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia Italy
Jean-Philip Piquemal Sorbonne Université France
Jiří Pittner J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences Czech Republic
Amalia Poblador Bahamonde Université de Genève Switzerland
Mikhail Polynski National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore
Priya Priya Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur India
Pekka Pyykkö University of Helsinki Finland
Martin Rahm Chalmers University of Technology Sweden
Basil Raju Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Israel
Sebastian Reiter Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) Germany
Christoph Riplinger FACCTs GmbH Germany
Henry Rzepa Imperial College London UK
Takeshi Sato University of Tokyo Japan
Giovanni Scalmani Gaussian Inc. USA
Gioacchino Schifino Università degli Studi di Padova Italy
H. Bernhard Schlegel Wayne State University USA
Peter Schürger CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay France
Mireia Segado-Centellas Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) Spain
Elli Selenius University of Iceland Iceland
Stefano Serapian Università degli Studi di Pavia Italy
Xiang Sheng Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology China
David Sherrill Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) USA
Sheh-Yi Sheu National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Taiwan
Takafumi Shiraogawa Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) Japan
Per Siegbahn Stockholm University Sweden
Celina Sikorska University of Gdańsk Poland
Zhexuan Song Beijing Institute of Technology China
Alexander Stark University of Michigan USA
Viktor Staroverov Western University Canada
Christopher Stein Technical University of Munich Germany
Thijs Stuyver Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) France
Ayaki Sunaga Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Hungary
Krzysztof Szalewicz University of Delaware USA
Enrico Tapavicza Universität Regensburg Germany
David Tew University of Oxford UK
Frederik Tielens Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Belgium
Jacob Toney Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA
Cristina Trujillo University of Manchester UK
Inbal Tuvi-Arad Open University of Israel Israel
Sergey Varganov University of Nevada USA
Jelle Vekeman Universiteit Gent Belgium
Francesc Viñes Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Spain
Yingjie Wang Shenzhen Bay Laboratory China
Stacey Wetmore University of Lethbridge Canada
Jessica Jein White CSIRO Australia
Angela Wilson Michigan State University USA
Katie Wilson Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) Canada
Yu Zhang Los Alamos National Laboratory USA
Yi Zhao Xiamen University China
Karl Michael Ziems University of Southampton UK

Congress Chair: Trygve Helgaker

Congress Secretaries: Simen Reine, Erik Tellgren

Young WATOC Chairs: Abril Castro, Ainara Nova

Local Congress Committee: David Balcells, Michele Cascella, Abril Castro, Odile Eisenstein, Trygve Helgaker, Simen Kvaal, Ainara Nova, Thomas Bondo Pedersen, Simen Reine, Erik Tellgren, Einar Uggerud

Congress Organizers: Gyro Conferencewatoc@gyro.no