Poster Prize Winners
The COST Action BEST-CSP cordially invites all interested researchers to participate in its second workshop, which will be held in Bologna, 10-11 September 2025. This two-day workshop will provide an excellent opportunity to present oral or poster presentations, to participate in working group meetings, and to actively participate in the BEST-CSP network.
Registration is closed.
Keynote Speakers
Alberto Otero de la Roza – University of Oviedo, Spain
Susan Reutzel-Edens – SuRE Pharmaconsulting, LCC, USA
Mohamed Aouane – European Spallation Source (ESS)
Graeme Day – University of Southampton
Workshop Venue
University of Bologna, Polo Navile – UE1 Building, Via della Beverara 123/1, 40131 Bologna
Lecture room: D, ground floor
Registration will be open from 8 am. Registration takes place in the cafetaria.
A lunch fee of €30.- for two lunches will be required payable in the cafetaria (cash or card) during registration.
With the support of XtalPi
Workshop Program
| Time | Wednesday 10/09 | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am | REGISTRATION | |
| 9:00 am | OPENING | |
| Session Chairs: Michal Fulem, Joao Baptista | ||
| 9:15 am | KEYNOTE LECTURE: Susan Reutzel Edens | From digital design to the experimental realization of crystal polymorphs |
| 10:00 am | Daria Szewczyk | Exploring Organic Crystalline Polymorphism through Heat Capacity Studies: Benzophenone, Picolinamide, Pyrazinamide, and Triethylenetetramine |
| 10:15 am | Vera I.S.S. Freitas | When Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds Undermine Crystal Cohesion: A Thermodynamic Perspective |
| 10:30 am | Ricardo Castro | Discovery and Characterization of a Late-Appearing Polymorph of Famciclovir |
| 10:45 am | Jonas Nyman | Blind test |
| 11:00 am | COFFEE BREAK | |
| Session Chairs: Anders Madsen, Inês Feliciano | ||
| 11:30 am | KEYNOTE LECTURE: Mohamed Aouane | Novel Materials: Opportunities with Neutron Scattering |
| 12:15 pm | Ivor Ioncaric | Modeling Molecular Crystals with Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials |
| 12:30 pm | Voitech Steifa | From experiments to standard: reference data for sublimation properties |
| 12:45 pm | Clara Gomes, Matalda Sarraguca | Women in STEM: Past, Present and Future |
| 1:00 pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
| Session Chairs: Sowmya Indrakumar, Luca Russo | ||
| 2:30 pm | KEYNOTE LECTURE: Graeme Day | Digital Navigation of Chemical-Crystal Space for Functional Materials Discovery |
| 3:15 pm | Jacco van de Streek | Disorder, “correlated disorder”, energy and free energy |
| 3:30 pm | Ctirad Cerninka | Coupled-clusters theory meets ab initio thermodynamic simulations for molecular liquids |
| 3:45 pm | Demeter Tzeli | Computational Investigation of photophysical processes of chemosensors |
| 4:00 pm | Pol Benitez | MLIPs for Crystal Prediction and Thermodynamic Phase Diagrams |
| 4:15 pm | Lucia Gigli | Large-scale chemical and crystal packing space exploration for HOF-based porous materials |
| 4:30 pm | Zhuocen Yang | Relative Stability Evaluation of Polymorphic Systems via Pseudo-Supercritical Path Method using Different Force Fields |
| 4:45 pm | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 5:00 pm | POSTER SESSION | |
| 6:30 pm | END of poster session | |
| Time | Thursday 11/09 | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am | Management Committee Meeting | Management committee members only |
| 10:00 am | Working Group Meetings | All participants |
| 11:00 am | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:30 am | Working Group Meetings | All participants |
| 1:00 pm | LUNCH BREAK | |
| Session Chairs: Helena Butkiewicz, Will Wood | ||
| 2:00 pm | KEYNOTE LECTURE: Alberto de la Roza | Design and benchmarking of methods for energy ranking in crystal structure prediction |
| 2:45 pm | Natalia Correia | Exploring Crystal Polymorphism in Simvastatin: Insights from Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy |
| 3:00 pm | Martin Dracinsky | NMR Crystallography of Molecular Solids with Strong Hydrogen Bonds |
| 3:15 pm | Vassil Ivanov | Step Bunching and Meandering Dynamics: A pathway to surface morphology control |
| 3:30 pm | Marta Dudek | NMR crystallography of organic solids at high magnetic fields |
| 3:45 pm | Cheng-long Stenhan | Stabilizing the Unstable: Using Additives to Control Metastable Polymorphs and Extend Their Lifetime |
| 4:00 pm | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 4:30 pm | Round Table Discussion | |
| 5:45 pm | CLOSING REMARKS | |
| 6:00 pm | Core Group Meeting | Core Group Members Only |
Contact E-mail: workshop1@best-csp.eu
Organizing committee: Fabrizia Grepioni, Paolo Pio Mazzeo, Ivo Rietveld, Doris Braun, Ariadna Mendoza Mederos, Christina Kolokytha, Andrea Daolio, Remie Sundermann and Laura Contini.