An photo of Homerton College, Cambridge, UK

Advanced Battery Manufacturing Workshop Success

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Last week the much-anticipated Advanced Battery Manufacturing Workshop took place in the beautiful grounds of Homerton College, Cambridge, UK.

This collaborative meeting, hosted by the BatCAT, BATTwin and AM4BAT projects, bought together over 160 delegates to hear 30 speakers showcasing their latest breakthroughs in data systems and digital twins, solid-state lithium-ion batteries, advanced battery manufacturing and innovative cell assembly techniques.

It was a great event and, we hope, a number of new collaborations have been forged as a result. We could not have hosted such a great event without all of our speakers. Our thanks go to:

Fadi Al Manchot (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)

Dimitris Argyropoulos  and Dionysis Zisis (Sunlight)

Ana Bankovic Cassidy (Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology)

Erwan Le Bourhi (N-ABLE)

Elisa Buccafusco (Politecnico di Torino)

Qiong Cai (University of Surrey)

Marcello Colledani (Politecnico di Milano)

Matthew Evans (University of Cambridge and Datalab Industries)

Mona Faraji Niri and Dariusz Ceglarek (University of Warwick)

Timm Fitschen (IndiScale)

Karol Frohlich (Centre for Advanced Materials Application SAS)

David Gonzalez (Universidad Loyola)

Martin Thomas Horsch (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)

Gergely Horváth (HUN-REN Computer Science and Control Research Institute)

Bastien Hualpa de Schuyter (Leitat Technological Center)

Masoud Jabbari (University of Leeds)

Anmol Jnawali (Photocentric)

David Keating (Echion Technologies)

Amirhossein Khezri (LISPEN)

Sudeepika Liyanapathiranage (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)

Donia Marzougui (Upcell Alliance)

Alessia Melechì (Comau)

Robert Mitchell (Centre for Process Innovation)

Andreas Rauh (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)

Aleksandra Roganović (ElevenEs)

Rachel Smith (University of Sheffield)

Wenxian (Hetty) Sun and Mao (Maggie) Xu (University of Greenwich)

This event was covered by the local press. The screenshot is reproduced from the e-edition April 29–May 5, 2026, Cambridge Independent.

Joint workshop in Cambridge Independent cropped

 

Here are a selection of photos from the event.

Photos credits: Gerhard Goldbeck and Vikki Cantrill, both Goldbeck Consulting.

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Acknowledgement

This event has received funding and support from The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency under grant agreement no. 101137954 (BATTwin) and from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number 10118186 (BATTwin)], the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement nos. 101069756 (AM4BAT), and 101137725 (BatCAT), and from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number 10091190 (BatCAT)].

 

 

Event announcement: Advanced Battery Manufacturing Workshop

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Advanced Battery Manufacturing Workshop

A collaborative meeting of the BatCAT, BATTwin and AM4BAT projects

16–17 April 2026

 Homerton College, Cambridge, UK

Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH

This hybrid event will bring together leading experts, researchers, and stakeholders to explore cutting-edge advancements in battery manufacturing technology.

The workshop is being co-organised by the BatCAT, BATTwin and AM4BAT projects to create a unique platform to showcase the latest breakthroughs in data systems and digital twins, solid-state lithium-ion batteries, advanced battery manufacturing and innovative cell assembly techniques.

Attendees will have the opportunity to:

  • gain in-depth insights into the progress, objectives, and results of the partner projects,
  • join expert-led technical sessions that will highlight the emerging trends in battery manufacturing and digital twins,
  • connect with key researchers, engineers, and manufacturers from the battery community,
  • participate in discussions and networking opportunities on the challenges and opportunities for sustainable, high-performance battery cell production.

The event is free to attend and, to make the most of the two-day programme, attendance in-person is highly recommended. All delegates need to register. The full programme, including technical sessions, panels, and networking opportunities, is available here.

Our confirmed speakers are:

Fadi Al Manchot (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)

Dimitris Argyropoulos  and Dionysis Zisis (Sunlight)

Ana Bankovic Cassidy (Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology)

Fabrizio Bernini (Bi-rex)

Erwan Le Bourhi (N-ABLE)

Elisa Buccafusco (Politecnico di Torino)

Qiong Cai (University of Surrey)

Marcello Colledani (Politecnico di Milano)

Matthew Evans (University of Cambridge and Datalab Industries)

Mona Faraji Niri and Dariusz Ceglarek (University of Warwick)

Timm Fitschen (IndiScale)

Karol Frohlich (Centre for Advanced Materials Application SAS)

David Gonzalez (Universidad Loyola)

Martin Thomas Horsch (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)

Gergely Horváth (HUN-REN Computer Science and Control Research Institute)

Bastien Hualpa de Schuyter (Leitat Technological Center)

Masoud Jabbari (University of Leeds)

Anmol Jnawali (Photocentric)

David Keating (Echion Technologies)

Amirhossein Khezri (LISPEN)

Sudeepika Liyanapathiranage (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)

Donia Marzougui (Upcell Alliance)

Alessia Melechì (Comau)

Robert Mitchell (Centre for Process Innovation)

Andreas Rauh (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg)

Aleksandra Roganović (ElevenEs)

Rachel Smith (University of Sheffield)

Wenxian (Hetty) Sun and Mao (Maggie) Xu (University of Greenwich)

Artur Tron (Austrian Institute of Technology)

 

UPDATE: Registration to attend in person has now closed. Online registration is still open.

You can register to attend here.

The venue

Homerton College, Cambridge is located just a short distance from the city’s main train station and the city centre. Click here for directions and information about accommodation, and here for an annotated map of the college grounds. When arriving at the college it is best to enter via the Events Reception entrance on Harrison Drive. Alternatively, participants can enter via the Porters’ Lodge on Hills Road and then make their way across the college to reach the Events Reception.

Acknowledgement

This event has received funding and support from The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency under grant agreement no. 101137954 (BATTwin) and from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number 10118186 (BATTwin)], the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement nos. 101069756 (AM4BAT), and 101137725 (BatCAT), and from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number 10091190 (BatCAT)].

 

 

An overview of 2025!

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Another busy year at Goldbeck Consulting during 2025, so here we take a moment to reflect on the highlights from the last 12 months. Our sincere thanks go out to our clients, partners and collaborators, and we look forward to what 2026 will bring!

We successfully completed two EU-funded projects early in the year, OpenModel and nanoMECommons, and we are just over half-way through one of our other projects, BatCAT, for which we just completed the alignment of ontologies with the EMMO.

This year also saw the successful launch of Semantic Materials — the semantic technologies branch of Goldbeck Consulting Ltd. Semantic Materials brings together a team of experts and partner organisations in Europe to support clients in chemicals and materials industries in building science-based, data-centric knowledge management systems.

As part of the Semantic Materials initiative, we also announced a new, working collaborative agreement with Semantic Partners, known for their technology stack expertise. We look forward to continuing work with them throughout 2026.

And, we developed our Semantic Data Management Maturity Assessment Service, a self-assessment tool to give you insight into the key issues of knowledge management.

 

Our work has enabled us to take part in several events, like

Cecam’s Workshop on Interfacial Properties: Open Questions

EMMC 2025 International Workshop

PSDI Materials Community Workshop

FEMS EUROMAT 2025

The Harmonised terminologies and schemas for FAIR data in materials science and related domains WG workshop – “Data Cataloguing for Materials Science and related domains”.

RDA 25th Plenary Meeting

Semantic Materials Workshop 2025

 

Alongside the events attended, there have been numerous presentations and posters:

Managing the complexity of multiscale modelling with semantic technologies by Otello Roscioni.

Knowledge representation of battery manufacturing supported by an integrated ontology system by Gerhard Goldbeck, Silvia Chiacchiera, Martin Petit and Martin T. Horsch.

Materials knowledge and data representation with a European ontology ecosystem by Gerhard Goldbeck

EMMO Ontology: enabling AI-based innovative advanced materials development: the CoBRAIN Knowledge Base for hardmetal thermal spraying coatings by Gerhard Goldbeck and Emanuele Ghedini

EMMO: an ontology based on universal materials science concepts by Gerhard Goldbeck

 

Publications have also been key to our work this year:

Application of the CHADA Workflow (CWA 17815:2025) for High-Speed Nanoindentation Mapping on Battery Cathodes by Daniele Duranti et al.

Training for the new CHADA was published.

Published paper Easy-MODA: Simplifying standardised registration of scientific simulation workflows through MODA template guidelines powered by the Enalos Cloud Platform Iseult Lynch, Antreas Afantitis et al. This publication supports the use of Easy-MODA – a free web tool for researchers to document and register complex modelling workflows.

Knowledge organisation and intelligent R&D for chemicals and materials industries – A workshop report by Gerhard Goldbeck, Vikki Cantrill, Ferry Kienberger, and Alexandra Simperler

 

Finally, our semantic technologies work has led to an approved CEN workshop agreement and the release of two ontology versions:

A new CEN Workshop Agreement on Materials characterization – Terminology and structured documentation has been published. This new agreement provides a standardised framework, called the CHAracterisation DAta (CHADA) model that documents materials characterization processes in a structured and consistent manner.

Released Characterisation Methodology Domain Ontology (CHAMEO) v1.0 for characterisation terminology and metadata.

Released the Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology (EMMO) v1.0 as a standard representational framework for the materials and manufacturing sectors in collaboration by many within the EMMC community.

Overall, a great year and we are looking forward to 2026!

 

OpenModel project logo
EMMC logo

 

BatCAT consortium meeting in Newcastle

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Last week, all partners from the BatCAT project met at The Catalyst in Newcastle, UK for a consortium meeting that marked the halfway stage of the project. Representatives from the partner organisations reviewed and discussed progress, exchanged ideas, and charted the course for the project’s next steps.

This successful meeting was an opportunity to see how far we have come and reflect on the project’s key achievements so far. In addition to the working sessions, the programme also included a tour of the facilities at the Centre for Process Innovation in Sedgefield — this included a first-hand view of the (robot automated) pilot lines for electrode slurry formulation and the recently installed coating line and cell build and testing line, an open training session entitled “On-line Characterization within digitalized manufacturing”, a walking tour of the area, and time to socialise and network with project colleagues.

We look forward to building on the outcomes of this meeting over the coming months. Here are a few photos of the event.

 

BatCAT consortium meeting
Visit to CPI Sedgefield
Facility tour at CPI Sedgefield
Walking tour
BatCAT consortium dinner

 

 

Event announcement: Semantic Materials Workshop 2025

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Semantic Materials Workshop 2025

Knowledge Organisation Challenges and Solutions for Chemicals and Materials-Based Industries

Monday 10 November 2025

Homerton College, Cambridge, UK

 

Save the date!

We’re excited to announce that, following our very popular event last year, the Semantic Materials Workshop will be returning for 2025.

This year’s event will provide a unique opportunity to discuss pertinent topics in knowledge organisation and information integration with subject-matter peers that understand the particular challenges of chemicals and materials domains. A chance to learn from each other’s experiences and discuss with leading academic developers and commercial solutions providers about strategies and next steps in implementation.

This workshop will include a full day of presentations and discussions on the topic of Knowledge Organisation Challenges and Solutions for Chemicals and Materials-Based Industries.

Confirmed speakers include:

Please note:

Attendance at the workshop will be by invitation in the first instance. To make the most of the day, attendance in person is recommended.

We will be releasing full details of the event in early autumn on the Semantic Materials website and through LinkedIn, so be sure to follow. If you are interested in attending, you can register your interest by email.

Acknowledgement:

This event is kindly supported by the DigiCell project and the EMMC.

 

Workshop on Interfacial Properties 2025 photo gallery

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Here is a gallery of photos from Cecam‘s Workshop on Interfacial Properties: Open Questions (28–30 January, 2025) in Daresbury, UK. Photo credits: Otello Roscioni.

A look back over 2024!

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It has been a busy 2024 here at Goldbeck Consulting. Thanks to all of the support from you — our clients, partners and collaborators! We look forward to many more highlights in the coming year as well.

We have had the privilege to be involved with number of EU projects. Two of these projects have now successfully completed OntoTrans and DOME 4.0. We look forward to continuing work next year as part of the OpenModel and nanoMECommons projects. We have also enjoyed getting to know all of the partners within our new project this year, BatCAT.

We participated in lots of events throughout Europe, including NMBP-35 workshop, BIG-MAP EUnified Battery Data Space Workshop, BatCAT consortium kick-off and M12 meetings, OntoTrans consortium M48 final meeting, Knowledge Graph Alliance’s (KGA) 1st KG-AI summit, Materials Week 2024, CEN Workshop, 7th Semantics@Roche, Nanotexnology 2024 International Conferences & Exhibition on Nanotechnologies, Organic Electronics & Nanomedicine, Semantics 2024, OpenModel Exploitation Workshop, International Materials Science and Engineering Congress, CONNECT-NM kick-off and the NanoMECommons Workshop on materials characterisation, data standardisation and digitalisation. Gerhard also gave an online talk with Materials Square.

We also hosted our own Semantic Materials workshop in London. It was a great meeting and we hope to run a follow up event soon.

And we have published a number of publications and reports with our partners and collaborators: 

Developing ontologies in Materials Science

OntoTrans project press release and final video

Social Media – the art nouveau of communicating research projects to citizens?

Semantic Knowledge Management for materials: the benefits of a FAIR data and model-based approach in industrial research and development

Battery testing ontology: An EMMO-based semantic framework for representing knowledge in battery testing and battery quality control

Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology: Leveraging perspectives via a showcase of EMMO-based domain and application ontologies

Operationalising materials modelling workflows in industrial R&D – a benefits analysis

Overall, a great year and looking forward to the next one! Our very best wishes to all our partners and clients for a prosperous New Year.

 

Homerton College, Cambridge. Credit: Gerhard Goldbeck

Workshop on materials characterisation, data standardisation and digitalisation meeting 2024 photo gallery

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Here is a gallery of photos from the workshop on materials characterisation, data standardisation and digitalisation meeting held at Homerton College, Cambridge, UK 20 November 2024.

Event announcement: Workshop on materials characterisation, data standardisation and digitalisation

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Workshop on materials characterisation, data standardisation and digitalisation

20 November, Homerton College, Cambridge, UK (Hybrid)

Come and discuss FAIR data and FAIR materials characterisation protocols to support reproducibility, collaboration and faster uptake of new characterisation methodologies.

As part of the NanoMECommons project, GCL has been developing an EMMO-based, Characterisation Methodology Domain Ontology, known as CHAMEO, as a general framework for digitalisation of complex characterisation workflows.

This framework is also at the core of the updated CEN Workshop Agreement standard on “Materials characterisation — Terminology and structured documentation”.

This upcoming workshop will be a great opportunity to discuss standardisation, the CHAMEO, its industrial applications and implementation in a protocol documentation app, developed together with Fraunhofer IWM.

For more information and to register for this (free) event, visit the NanoMECommons registration page.

Update: See our photo gallery of the event here. Photo credits: Gerhard Goldbeck and Vikki Cantrill, GCL.

 

An photo of Homerton College, Cambridge, UK

Homerton College, Cambridge, UK

 

Nanotexnology 2024

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Last week, Otello attended the Nanotexnology 2024 International Conferences & Exhibition on Nanotechnologies, Organic Electronics & Nanomedicine series in Thessaloniki, Greece, and took part in a couple of events.

On Saturday 29 June, he attended the 18th International Summer Schools on “Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies, Organic Electronics & Nanomedicine” and gave a talk entitled “Organic semiconductor landscapes from molecular dynamics simulations”.

Then, on Thursday 7 July, as part of the 17th International Symposium on Flexible Organic Electronics, Otello gave an invited talk on “Structurally accurate coarse-grained model for polymers: a lesson of validation” as part of a wider workshop on open innovation and standardization and presented a post on the CHAMEO ontology.