MRS 2025 Aerogel Symposium Invited Speakers Announced!
I am pleased to announce the list of invited speakers for the upcoming and star-studded Aerogels and Aerogel-Inspired Materials symposium to be held at the Fall meeting of the Materials Research Society in Boston this Nov 30-Dec 5, 2025. Abstract submission opens May 19, 2025 and closes just one month later on June 18, 2025! Mark your calendar and finish those last-minute experiments, XPS scans, and BET runs!
Come hear the latest in hot topics like metal aerogels, accelerated solvent exchange, biopolymers, and commercialization!
- Indika Arichchige, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Colonel John Burpo, United States Military Academy at West Point
- Alexander Eychmueller, Technical University of Dresden
- Jakub Gac, Warsaw University of Technology
- George Hasegawa, Nagoya University
- Matthew Herman, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Petra Herman, University of Debrecen
- Marc Hodes, Tufts University
- Saiful Islam, Jackson State University
- Nicholas Leventis, Aspen Aerogels
- Pradip Maji, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
- Tom McCarthy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Patricia McNeil, Westwood Aerogel
- Natalia Menshutina, Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia
- Beatriz Merillas Valero, University of Valladolid
- Debra Rolison, United States Naval Research Laboratory
- Tsuguyuki Saito, The University of Tokyo
- Makoto Tabata, Chiba University
- Stephanie Vivod, NASA Glenn Research Center
- Kyle Wilke, Aeroshield
- Shanyu Zhao, EMPA
- Guoqing Zu, Tongji University
…and most of all, we look forward to meeting you there!
—The Steering Committee
Stephen A. Steiner III, Lidija Siller, Radmila Tomoskova, Galit Bar, Ameya Rege, Barbara Milow, Stephanie Brock, and Kazuyoshi Kanamori