Name: 20. Aachener Membran Kolloquium 2026 and DGMT Poster Day
Start: 2026-12-01T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-12-03T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Eurogress

20. Aachener Membran Kolloquium 2026 and DGMT Poster Day

from Tuesday, December 1, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, December 3, 2026 (8:00 PM)

Monday, November 30, 2026
Tuesday, December 1, 2026

10:00 AM DGMT Poster Day

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

6:00 PM Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Wednesday, December 2, 2026
9:15 AM Plenary Session: Opening Session
Opening Session
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Brussel Hall
Contributions

9:30 AM Do we still need UF? Hollow fiber nanofiltration and the next generation of water reclamation - Henk Koops (NX Filtration)

10:15 AM Industry Pitches
10:45 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Electromembrane Separations
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Brussel Hall
Contributions

11:00 AM Coupling redox-electrochemistry with membrane design for selective separations - Xiao Su (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

11:30 AM Next-Gen Electro-Membrane Lithium Extraction Efficient, Sustainable, Battery-Grade - Christian Hying (Evonik Innovation Factory)

12:00 PM Accounting for two-step ion pairing of M2SO4 salt sorption in cation exchange membranes (CEMs) - Rachel Huang (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Membranes I
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Room K1
Contributions

11:00 AM Polyamide membranes with intrinsic coordination sites for ion-ion separation - Razi Epsztein (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

11:30 AM One-Step Fabrication of Tunable Fumion/PAA PEC Membranes for Ion and Micropollutant Separation - Kejing Li (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)

12:00 PM Beyond Conventional Chemical Color-Diffusion NEMD: Alternating Color Fields for Ionic Conductivity Estimation in Finite Diffusion Domains - Xiaoxian Pang
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Membranes for Energy Applications
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Brussel Hall
Contributions

1:30 PM Backbone Influence on Internal Morphology of Ion-Exchange Membranes for Energy Applications - Anastasiia Konovalova (Technical University of Denmark)

2:00 PM Experimental Investigation of a Spiral-Wound Membrane Humidifier for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells - Philipp Schwab (Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Engineering and Design, Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Institute of Plant and Process Technology, Garching/Germany)

2:30 PM Scalable fabrication of polymer based porous separators for alkaline water electrolysis - Wendy Jonkers (EMI Twente)
Water Treatment
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Room K1
Contributions

2:00 PM Micropollutant Removal from Wastewater Effluent by Polyelectrolyte Multilayer NF Membranes Converted from End-of-Life RO Modules - Aron Bona (University of Pannonia)

2:30 PM Hybrid ion exchange - reverse osmosis treatment of PFAS‑contaminated waters without antiscalants: high‑recovery operation and concentrate management - Martin Futterlieb
3:00 PM Coffee Break & Poster Session (sponsored by Pentair)
Coffee Break & Poster Session (sponsored by Pentair)
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Bioseparations: Bioseparations
Bioseparations
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Room K1
Contributions

4:30 PM From microfluidics to membrane - Karin Schroën (Wageningen University)

5:00 PM Development and characterization of biocatalytic membrane reactors - Martin Schmidt (Leibniz-Institut für Oberflächenmodifizierung e.V. (IOM))

5:30 PM Enzyme functionalized nylon membranes for improving protein recovery from microalgae extracts of Tetraselmis chui - Tim Schreiber
Membrane Reactors
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Brussel Hall
Contributions

4:30 PM The stony path from academic membrane research to industrial applications - Klaus-Viktor Peinemann (GMT Membrantechnik GmbH)

5:00 PM Packed Bed Membrane Reactor for Ammonia Cracking Process - Roberto Fiorillo (Sustainable Process Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology)

5:30 PM Performance evaluation of structured POCS catalysts for hydrogen production via ammonia decomposition - Valentina Cechetto (Eindhoven University of Technology)
7:00 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Thursday, December 3, 2026
9:15 AM Plenary Session
9:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Brussel Hall
Contributions

9:15 AM Self-assembly and membranes for precise separations - Suzana Nunes (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

10:00 AM Electrochemical hydrogen separation from diluted gas mixtures: When separation meets compression - Wibke Zängler (RWTH Aachen University)
10:45 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Desalination
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Brussel Hall
Contributions

11:00 AM What we do and what we still don’t understand about ion transport in membranes - Viatcheslav Freger (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

11:30 AM Concentrating brines up to saturation using low-salt-rejection reverse osmosis - Lena Sophie Riechers (University of Twente)

12:00 PM Critical raw material recovery with tailor-made nanofiltration membranes - Milan Abel
Process Engineering
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Room K1
Contributions

11:00 AM Circular Economy for End-of-Life Membranes - Franziska Blauth (Institut für Umwelt & Energie, Technik & Analytik e.V.)

11:30 AM Selected Industrial Applications of Hollow Fiber Membrane Contactors in Carbon Capture Systems - Martin Ulbricht (Thermo Fisher Scientific BPG GmbH)

12:00 PM Organic Solvent Nanofiltration for sustainable and efficient industrial processes - Johannes Kamp (BORSIG Membrane Technology GmbH) Robin Wilmshöfer (BORSIG Membrane Technology GmbH)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM Gas & Vapor Separation
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Room K1
Contributions

1:30 PM High purity H2 recovery from NH3-cracking with Pd membrane technology - Thijs Peters (SINTEF)

2:00 PM Beyond the Robeson plot – Industrial perspectives on gas membrane research - Jens Rubner (Linde GmbH)

2:30 PM Towards Large scale ZIF-8 membrane for N2 separation from fluorinated gases at CERN - Amin Bouzaiene (CERN & EPFL)
Membranes II
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Brussel Hall
Contributions

1:30 PM The Evolving Toolbox for Polyelectrolyte Membranes - Hannah Roth (University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) & University of Twente)

2:00 PM Developing hollow fiber UF/MF membranes using novel industrially fabricated polymers - Jurjen Regenspurg (EMI Twente)

2:30 PM Nanoparticles as Sacrificial Pore Fillers for the Fabrication of High Permeability Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Membranes - Roberto Andrade (University of Twente)
3:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
3:15 PM EU projects
3:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Brussel Hall
Contributions

3:15 PM Design and testing of a membrane-based solar desalination unit for emergency conditions - Matteo Fasano (Politecnico di Torino)

3:30 PM Solar-assisted membrane distillation: Model-based optimization and preliminary validation at pilot scale - Matteo Fasano (Politecnico di Torino)

3:45 PM Development of Novel SiC-based and Novel Reinforced Gas Separation Membranes and Processes for H2 and CO2 Separation from Steel Industry Flue Gas - Hannes Richter (Fraunhofer IKTS) Recep Kaya (Istanbul Technical University)

4:00 PM Efficiency and energy consumption analysis of bipolar membrane electrodialysis for electrochemical CO2 capture - Sara Vallejo Castaño

4:15 PM Process and membrane developments to assist purification and additive recovery of used lubricant oils - Pieter Vandezande Bart Coen (a-membranes)
Membranes III
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Room K1
Contributions

3:15 PM Forming membranes from colloids: A potential route towards designable structures - Zeynep Çulfaz-Emecen (Middle East Technical University)

3:45 PM Confined Growth of Triazine-Based Polyimide Networks via Supramolecular Solid-State Polymerization - David Magnus Wolf (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

4:15 PM APTES-Modified MXene Incorporated Biodegradable Janus PLA/PEG Nanofibrous Membranes for Oil-Water Separation - İrem Kaya (Gebze Technical University)
5:00 PM Plenary Session: Closing Session & Poster Prize
Closing Session & Poster Prize
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Brussel Hall
Contributions

5:00 PM Whispering with membrane modules - Matthias Wessling (RWTH Aachen University & DWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials)