20. Aachener Membran Kolloquium 2026 and DGMT Poster Day

Dec 1, 2026, 8:00 AM → Dec 3, 2026, 8:00 PM Europe/Berlin

Eurogress

Welcome to the registration website of the 20th AMK 2026 and the DGMT poster day 2026.

The AMK hosts up to 150 experts from the field of membrane technology and offers an attractive platform for discussions about research and industrial applications from 01.-03. December at Eurogress and will kick off with the DGMT Posterday on 01. December this year at NGP². 

Feel free to register for the 20th AMK, the DGMT poster day, or both. You can submit an abstract using the attached form to apply for a poster for the DGMT poster day. Poster submission for AMK is closed.

Find further information on the AMK here.

Find further information on the DGMT poster day here. 

AMK_2026_Scientific_Programme_preliminary.pdf

PosterDay_Program.pdf

Submission_template_abstract_DGMTPosterDay.docx

Tue, December 1

10:00 AM → 5:00 PM DGMT Poster Day

6:00 PM → 9:00 PM Welcome Reception

Wed, December 2

9:15 AM → 10:45 AM Plenary Session: Opening Session

9:30 AM Do we still need UF? Hollow fiber nanofiltration and the next generation of water reclamation

Keynote I

Speaker: Dr Henk Koops (NX Filtration)

10:15 AM Industry Pitches

10:45 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Electromembrane Separations

11:00 AM Coupling redox-electrochemistry with membrane design for selective separations

Speaker: Dr Xiao Su (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

11:30 AM Next-Gen Electro-Membrane Lithium Extraction Efficient, Sustainable, Battery-Grade

Speaker: Christian Hying (Evonik Innovation Factory)

12:00 PM Accounting for two-step ion pairing of M2SO4 salt sorption in cation exchange membranes (CEMs)

Speaker: Rachel Huang (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Membranes I

11:00 AM Polyamide membranes with intrinsic coordination sites for ion-ion separation

Speaker: Dr Razi Epsztein (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

11:30 AM One-Step Fabrication of Tunable Fumion/PAA PEC Membranes for Ion and Micropollutant Separation

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Mr Xiaoxian Pang

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Membranes for Energy Applications

1:30 PM Backbone Influence on Internal Morphology of Ion-Exchange Membranes for Energy Applications

Speaker: Dr Anastasiia Konovalova (Technical University of Denmark)

2:00 PM Experimental Investigation of a Spiral-Wound Membrane Humidifier for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Dr Wendy Jonkers (EMI Twente)

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Water Treatment

2:00 PM Micropollutant Removal from Wastewater Effluent by Polyelectrolyte Multilayer NF Membranes Converted from End-of-Life RO Modules

Speaker: Dr 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

Speaker: Martin Futterlieb

3:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee Break & Poster Session (sponsored by Pentair)

4:30 PM → 6:00 PM Bioseparations

4:30 PM From microfluidics to membrane

Speaker: Prof. Karin Schroën (Wageningen University)

5:00 PM Development and characterization of biocatalytic membrane reactors

Speaker: Dr 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

Speaker: Tim Schreiber

4:30 PM → 6:00 PM Membrane Reactors

4:30 PM The stony path from academic membrane research to industrial applications

Speaker: Prof. Klaus-Viktor Peinemann (GMT Membrantechnik GmbH)

5:00 PM Packed Bed Membrane Reactor for Ammonia Cracking Process

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Valentina Cechetto (Eindhoven University of Technology)

7:00 PM → 10:00 PM Conference Dinner

Thu, December 3

9:15 AM → 10:45 AM Plenary Session

9:15 AM Self-assembly and membranes for precise separations

Keynote II

Speaker: Prof. Suzana Nunes (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

10:00 AM Electrochemical hydrogen separation from diluted gas mixtures: When separation meets compression

Keynote III

Speaker: Dr Wibke Zängler (RWTH Aachen University)

10:45 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Desalination

11:00 AM What we do and what we still don’t understand about ion transport in membranes

Speaker: Prof. Viatcheslav Freger (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

11:30 AM Concentrating brines up to saturation using low-salt-rejection reverse osmosis

Speaker: Lena Sophie Riechers (University of Twente)

12:00 PM Critical raw material recovery with tailor-made nanofiltration membranes​

Speaker: Milan Abel

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Process Engineering

11:00 AM Circular Economy for End-of-Life Membranes

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Martin Ulbricht (Thermo Fisher Scientific BPG GmbH)

12:00 PM Organic Solvent Nanofiltration for sustainable and efficient industrial processes

Speakers: Dr Johannes Kamp (BORSIG Membrane Technology GmbH), Mr Robin Wilmshöfer (BORSIG Membrane Technology GmbH)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Gas & Vapor Separation

1:30 PM High purity H2 recovery from NH3-cracking with Pd membrane technology

Speaker: Thijs Peters (SINTEF)

2:00 PM Beyond the Robeson plot – Industrial perspectives on gas membrane research

Speaker: Dr Jens Rubner (Linde GmbH)

2:30 PM Towards Large scale ZIF-8 membrane for N2 separation from fluorinated gases at CERN

Speaker: Amin Bouzaiene (CERN & EPFL)

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM Membranes II

1:30 PM The Evolving Toolbox for Polyelectrolyte Membranes

Speaker: Hannah Roth (University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) & University of Twente)

2:00 PM Developing hollow fiber UF/MF membranes using novel industrially fabricated polymers

Speaker: Jurjen Regenspurg (EMI Twente)

2:30 PM Nanoparticles as Sacrificial Pore Fillers for the Fabrication of High Permeability Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Membranes

Speaker: Roberto Andrade (University of Twente)

3:00 PM → 3:15 PM Coffee Break

3:15 PM → 5:00 PM EU projects

3:15 PM Design and testing of a membrane-based solar desalination unit for emergency conditions

Speaker: Prof. Matteo Fasano (Politecnico di Torino)

3:30 PM Solar-assisted membrane distillation: Model-based optimization and preliminary validation at pilot scale

Speaker: Prof. 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

Speakers: Dr Hannes Richter (Fraunhofer IKTS), Dr Recep Kaya (Istanbul Technical University)

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

Speaker: Dr Sara Vallejo Castaño

4:15 PM Process and membrane developments to assist purification and additive recovery of used lubricant oils

Speakers: Pieter Vandezande, Bart Coen (a-membranes)

4:30 PM Joint Q&A Session

3:15 PM → 4:45 PM Membranes III

3:15 PM Forming membranes from colloids: A potential route towards designable structures

Speaker: Prof. Zeynep Çulfaz-Emecen (Middle East Technical University)

3:45 PM Confined Growth of Triazine-Based Polyimide Networks via Supramolecular Solid-State Polymerization

Speaker: David Magnus Wolf (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

4:15 PM APTES-Modified MXene Incorporated Biodegradable Janus PLA/PEG Nanofibrous Membranes for Oil-Water Separation

Speaker: Ms İrem Kaya (Gebze Technical University)

5:00 PM → 6:00 PM Plenary Session: Closing Session & Poster Prize

5:00 PM Whispering with membrane modules

Keynote IV

Speaker: Matthias Wessling (RWTH Aachen University & DWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials)