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EMMO: A universal materials science ontology

Now that the 18th European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes, FEMS EUROMAT 2025, has drawn to a close in Granada, Spain, we reflect on the second of Gerhard’s talks that he gave on Thursday as part of the “Digital materials: rapid materials, experiments, simulation workflows, ontologies and interoperability” session. The talk was […]

EMMO: enabling AI-based advanced materials development

The 18th European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes, FEMS EUROMAT 2025, is now underway in Granada, Spain. Gerhard spoke to a full conference room with his keynote talk entitled: EMMO Ontology: enabling AI-based innovative advanced materials development: the CoBRAIN Knowledge Base for Hardmetal Thermal Spraying Coatings. This keynote talk formed part of the […]

Heading to FEMS EUROMAT 2025

Are you going to be at the FEMS EUROMAT 2025 meeting next week? The 18th European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes will run from Sunday 14–Thursday 18 September 2025 in Granada, Spain. The meeting and exhibition will cover a whole range of topics, including materials characterisation, testing and mechanical properties, modelling and […]

BatCAT consortium meeting in Newcastle

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 […]

PSDI Materials Community Workshop

This week (16 and 17 June 2025), Gerhard Goldbeck is attending a two-day workshop hosted by the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI). The PSDI Materials Community Workshop is taking place in Manchester, UK, and covers a number of topics including: Metadata and standards Electronic research tools and automation Workflows tools and reproducibility Data-driven applications and […]

EMMC2025 conference in Wien

Today, the EMMC 2025 International Workshop — EMMC2025 — kicks off three days’ of events at the University of Vienna, Austria. The workshop takes place every other year and this year the theme is “Accelerated Innovation and Sustainability by a Materials Modelling and Data Ecosystem”. The theme will be looked at from many angles including: […]

Workshop on Interfacial Properties 2025 photo gallery

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.

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

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.

CONNECT-NM kick-off meeting Madrid

Today, as part of his work with the EMMC, Gerhard is giving a talk at the CONNECT-NM kick-off meeting that is taking place at CIEMAT in Madrid. Coordination of the European Research Community on Nuclear Materials for Energy Innovation (CONNECT-NM) is a project that answers the Euratom WP call “Cofund HORIZON-EURATOM-2023-NRT-01-04”, for a co-funded European […]

MSE2024 conference Darmstadt

Today, the International Materials Science and Engineering Congress — MSE 2024 — gets underway in Darmstadt, Germany. Organised by the Germany Society for Materials Science, this biennial event covers material science and engineering attracts over 1,200 participants. Both Gerhard and Otello from GCL are taking part in this event. If you are at the conference, […]