OSLO 2025

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

[ Young WATOC: June 21 ]

 

 

SPEAKERS

[ Plenary Speakers ]

Katharina Boguslawski Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun Poland
Thomas Jagau KU Leuven Belgium
Heather Kulik MIT USA
Luhua Lai Peking University China
Jan Martin Weizmann Institute of Science Israel
Edit Mátyus Eötvös Loránd Universtiy Hungary
Mario Motta
IBM Research Yorktown
USA
Frank Neese MPI Mühlheim Germany
Michele Parrinello ETH Zürich Switzerland
Gustavo Scuseria
Rice University
USA
Alexander Sokolov
Ohio State University
USA
Veronique van Speybroeck Ghent Univeristy Belgium


[ Invited Speakers ]
Federica Agostini Université Paris-Saclay 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
Debra Bernhardt University of Queensland Australia
Elena Besley University of Nottingham UK
Matthias Bickelhaupt Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Netherlands
Sara BonellaÉcole 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
Eric Cances École des ponts ParisTech France
Roberto Car Princeton University USA
Gloria Cárdenas-Jirón Universidad de Santiago de Chile Chile
Garnet Chan Caltech USA
Ove Christiansen Aarhus University Denmark
Cecilia Clementi Freie Universität Berlin Germany
Jeanet Conradie University of the Free State Republic of South Africa
Sonia Coriani Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Denmark
Clemence Corminboeuf 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 Hungary
Qiang Cui Boston University USA
Taye Demissie University of Botswana Botswana
Frank de Proft Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Belgium
Marco De Vivo Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) Italy
Cristiana Di Valentin Università di Milano Bicocca Italy
Marie-Liesse Doublet Université de Montpellier France
Fernanda Duarte University of Oxford UK
Janus Juul Eriksen Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Denmark
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
Giulia Galli University of Chicago USA
Jiali Gao University of Minnesota | Shenzhen Bay Laboratory USA | China
Yi Qin Gao Peking University China
Nicola Gaston University of Auckland New Zealand
Jürgen Gauss Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Germany
Renana Gershoni-Poranne Technion — Israel Institute of Technology Israel
Abhik Ghosh UIT The Arctic University of Norway Norway
Debashree Ghosh Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Kolkata India
Peter Gill University of Sydney Australia
Leticia González Universität Wien Austria
Stefan Grimme Universität Bonn Germany
Eberhard Gross Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) Israel
Martin Head-Gordon University of California, Berkeley USA
Teresa Head-Gordon University of California, 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
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
Sabre Kais Purdue University USA
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 Berlin) Germany
Wim Klopper Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Germany
Henrik Koch Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Norway
Boris Kozinsky Harvard University USA
Georg Kresse Universität Wien Austria
Anna Krylov University of Southern California (USC) USA
Susi Lehtola University of Helsinki Finland
Shuhua Li Nanjing University China
WanZhen Liang Xiamen University China
Lin Lin University of California, Berkeley USA
Erik Lindahl Stockholm University Sweden
Roland Lindh Uppsala University Sweden
Filippo Lipparini Università di Pisa Italy
Jian Liu Peking University China
Wenjian Liu Shandong University China
Nuria López Institut Català d’Investigació Quimica (ICIQ) Spain
Zhong-Yuan Lu Jilin University China
Jing Ma Nanjing University China
Stuart Macgregor University of St. Andrews UK
Satoshi Maeda Hokkaido University Japan
Alessandra Magistrato CNR-IOM Istituto Officina dei Materiali Italy
Fernando Martin García Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) Spain
Feliu Maseras Institut Català d’Investigació Quimica (ICIQ) Spain
Evert Jan MeijerUniversiteit van Amsterdam
Netherlands
Benedetta Mennucci Università di Pisa Italy
Gabriel Merino Cinvestav Unidad Mérida Mexico
Emi Minamitani Osaka Univeristy 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
Sergio Pantano Institut Pasteur de Montevideo Uruguay
Katarzyna Pernal Lodz University of Technology Poland
Biswarup Phatak Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore India
Piotr Piecuch Michigan State University USA
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
Philippe Sautet University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) USA
Peter Schwerdtfeger New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study, 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 Canada
Eunji Sim Yonsei University South Korea
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 Bombay (IIT Bombay) India
Seiichiro Ten-no Kobe University Japan
Alexandre Tkatchenko Université du Luxembourg Luxembourg
Mark Tuckerman New York University USA
Morgane Vacher Nantes Université France
Kumar Vanka National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) India
Luuk Visscher Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) Netherlands
Anatole von Lilienfeld University of Toronto Canada
Stefan Vučković
Université de Fribourg
Switzerland
David Wales University of Cambridge UK
Jin Wen Donghua University China
Julia Westermayr Universität Leipzig Germany
Birgitta Whaley University of Californina, Berkeley USA
Andrew Wibowo-Teale University of Nottingham UK
Wei Wu Xiamen University China
Hai Xiao Tsinghua University China
Jing Xie Beijing Institute of Technology China
Weitao Yang Duke University USA
Luo Yi Hefei National Laboratory | KTH Royal Institute of Technology China | Sweden
Dominika Zgid University of Michigan USA
Eva Zurek University of Buffalo USA

 

 

Congress Chair: Trygve Helgaker
Congress Secretary: Simen Reine

Local Scientific Committee
Trygve Helgaker (Chair)
David Balcells
Michele Cascella
Odile Eisenstein
Thomas Bondo Pedersen

Local Organization Committee
Simen Reine (Chair)
Abril Castro
Simen Kvaal
Ainara Nova
Erik Tellgren

Congress Organizers: Gyro Conferencewatoc@gyro.no