SPEAKERS
[ Young WATOC Lectures ]
| 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 Conference – watoc@gyro.no