Invited Speakers

Confirmed speakers (so far):

• Plenary sessions
  

  Sagawa, Masato (NdFeB, Japan) - Towards the ultimate permanent magnet
  

  Albertini, Franca (CNR INREM) - Heusler alloys for magnetic cooling
  

  Suzuki, Kiyonori (Monash University) - State of the art in soft magnets
  

  Rollat, Alain (Carester, France) - Rare earths: mining, separation and radioactivity
  

• Hard magnetic materials and applications

  Cui, Jun (Ames National Lab and Iowa State University) - Near net shape fabrication of anisotropic magnest using hot roll method

  Sepehri-Amin, Hossein (NIMS Tsukuba) - High performance hard magnets

  Ohmer, Dominik (Vacuumschmelze) - NdFeB and SmCo magnets made in Europe
  

• Accelerated material discovery

  Herper, Heike (University of Uppsala) - Rare-earth-free permanent magnets from crystal structure databases

  Dempsey, Nora (Institute Néel, CNRS Grenoble) - High throughput search for novel hard magnetic compounds

  Morley, Nicola (University of Sheffield) - Digital Magnetic Materials Discovery
  

  Schrefl, Thomas (Krems University Danube) - Materials informatics for permanent magnet optimization
  

• Magnetocaloric materials and applications

  Franco, Victorino (University of Sevilla) - Decoding magnetostructural transitions

  Hu, Feng-Xia (Chinese Academy of Sciences) - Competitive driving effect on calorics by dual-fields in ferroic materials

  Münch, Falk (Magnotherm GmbH)  - Bringing magnetic cooling on the market
  

• Soft magnetic materials and applications

  Bollero, Alberto (Robert Bosch GmbH) - Soft magnetic materials for e-drives

  Lindemann-Geipel, Inge (Fraunhofer IFAM) - Innovative powder metallurgical manufacturing technologies for soft magnetic materials

  Mercone, Silvana (Université de Tours) - Soft magnetic nanoparticles

• Advanced processing & characterization

  Attallah, Moataz (University of Birmingham) - Additive Manufacturing of Magnetic Materials: Metallurgical and Processing Challenges

  Chaudhary, Varun (Chalmers University of Technology) - Combining experiment with thermodynamic modeling and machine learning

  Kovács, András (Forschungszentrum Jülich) - Resolving magnetism and structure down to the atom

  Ollefs, Katharina (Universität Duisburg-Essen) - Synchrotron based insights into magnetic materials
  

• From green mining to green motors

  Gauß, Roland (EIT RawMaterials) - Developing the rare earth magnet chain in Europe

  Gassmann, Jürgen (Fraunhofer IWKS) - Short loop vs long loop recycling of Nd-Fe-B Magnets

  Sakuma, Noritsugu (Toyota Motor Corporation) - Towards sustainable magnets and motors – the Toyata perspective

  Jöckel, Andreas (Flender GmbH) - Direct Drive and Midspeed Generator Concepts for Large Offshore Wind Turbines – with special Focus on Permanent Magnet Requirements