The FCSE-2027 Symposium will bring together internationally recognized invited speakers to share their expertise, recent discoveries, and visions for future research directions.
The present list of invited speakers is as follows:
| Gregory Abadias, CNRS-Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France “Stress evolution during thin film growth: from elemental to multi-principal element alloys” |
| André Anders, Plasma Engineering LLC, El Cerrito, CA, USA “Relating deposition process parameters to kinetically and thermodynamically driven film growth effects” |
| Delphine Bouilly, Département de physique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC Canada “Surface chemistry of graphene field-effect biosensors” |
| Brad Lee Boyce, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, USA “Rapid exploration of tribocatalytic films and nanocrystalline binary alloys via high-throughput and machine learning” |
| Brent Boyce, Guardian Glass, USA Towards a new generation of ultrathin films for buildings – Effect on energy consumption and our well-being” |
| Diederik Depla, Department of Solid State Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium “Lessons to learn from DC sputter deposition of tungsten thin films” |
| Des Gibson, Institute of Thin Films, Sensors & Imaging, University of the West of Scotland, United Kingdom “Plasma ion assisted deposition technology – Review of deployment and performance enhancements in optical coating applications” |
| Marcus Hans, Materials Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany “Pathways towards responsible surface engineering – Assessment of the energy consumption during reactive sputtering of (Cr,Al)N” |
| Oussama Moutanabbir, Department of Engineering Physics, Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, QC Canada “Group IV epitaxial semiconductors reimagined” |
| Christopher Muratore, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Dayton, Dayton OH, USA “Accelerated materials discovery and optimization using smart automated thin film process and characterization tools” |
| Bartlomiej Przybyszewski, Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland “From hydrophobicity to icephobicity: Advances in functional polymer coatings” |
| Helmut Riedel-Tragenreich, Institute of Materials Science and Technology, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria “Exploring MAX-phase coatings through ion-driven low-temperature PVD synthesis” |
| Sandra E. Rodil, Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico “Tailoring bimetallic antimicrobial coatings for polymeric medical substrates” |
| Aline Rougier, Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux, France “Chromogenic oxides thin films for energy applications : Benefits of the combinatorial approach” |
| Jochen M. Schneider, Materials Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Germany “From simple to complex: The role of compositional complexity in coating design for chemical and mechanical stability” |
| Tetsuhide Shimizu, Graduate School of Systems Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan “Beyond single-pulse HiPIMS: Temporal control of reactive sputtering for thermochromic VO₂ coatings” |