Conferences

Honored for groundbreaking contributions to adsorption, porous materials characterization, and international standardization in chemical separations technology. We are delighted to announce that Prof. Dr. Matthias Thommes, Full Professor and Head of the Institute for Separation Science and Techno...

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Matthias Thommes has been awarded the prestigious Clarence (Larry) G. Gerhold Award by the Separation Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) at the 2025 AIChE Annual Meeting! This highly esteemed award recognizes outstanding progress ...

The Institute of Separation Science and Technology presented its research at the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, which took place on October 25, 2025 in Erlangen. Dr. Detlef Freitag, Marzieh Khoobyari, Dr. Nicole Kragt, Lukas Sandner, Dr. Carola Vorndran and Pia Weiner explained to the public how ad...

Dr. Carola Vorndran presented current research results on Advanced Textural and Wettability Characterization by Combining Adsorption and Liquid Intrusion with NMR Relaxometry (authors: Carola Vorndran, Carlos C. Collados, Jakob Söllner, Lukas Sandner, Jincheng Xu, Matthias Thommes) at the Internatio...

From September 2 to September 5 the Erlangen-Edinburgh School of Adsorption 2025 (EESA 2025) took place in Erlangen organized by the Institute of Separation Science and Technology (TVT, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)). This event is organized on an annual basis alternating a...

Prof. Thommes gave an invited lecture on recent advances in the physical adsorption characterization of nanoporous materials with a focus on assessing their hydrophilicty/hydrophobicity at the 1st International Symposium on Smart Materials for Energy effiecient Built Environmental Control.

From May 18-23, 2025 the 15th Fundamentals of Adsorption (FOA 15) conference took place in Porto, Portugal. The Adsorption and Nanoporous Materials Characterization group had a major presence and significant contributions at this meeting.

From February 26th through 28th, 2025, the 36th German Zeolite Conference (DZT) and the Annual Meeting of the DECHEMA group Adsorption took place at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Organized by DECHEMA e.V., the conference was hosted by the Institute of Separation Science and ...