Bruker is pleased to announce that Nanobrücken 2026 will take place April 8-10 in the beautiful city of Leoben. The 16th annual Nanobrücken conference for international academic and industrial researchers and leaders in nanomechanical and nanotribological testing will feature oral presentations from leading research groups as well as practical workshops and a poster competition. The conference program is open to all aspects of nanomechanical and nanotribological testing, including testing in extreme environments, in-situ testing in SEM/TEM, theory & simulation, testing biomaterials etc.
Oral presentation guidelines
Please bring your presentation file on a memory stick. The presentation screen aspect ratio is 16:9.
Poster Presentation Guidelines
Posters should be prepared in A0 portrait format; stands and pins will be provided.
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Conference Hosts:
Priv. Doz. Dr. Megan J. Cordill
Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Ass. Prof. Dr. Verena Maier-Kiener
Dr. Michael Tkadletz
Department of Materials Science, Technical University of Leoben
Conference Venue:
Aula
Franz Josef-Straße 18
8700 Leoben, Austria
Professor Peter Hosemann
Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Professor Peter Hosemann received his MS (2005) and PhD (2008) in Material Science from the Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria. He conducted his PhD research on lead bismuth eutectic corrosion, ion beam irradiations and microscale mechanical testing at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He continued his research at Los Alamos National Laboratory as post doc and joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 2010.
Professor Hosemann has authored more than 200 per reviewed publications since 2008. In 2014 he won the best reviewer of the journal of nuclear materials award, the ANS literature award and in 2015 he won the TMS early career faculty fellow award and the AIME Robert Lansing Hardy award. In 2018 he became the chair of the nuclear engineering department and in 2020 he was named as the E.S. Kuh chair of engineering. In 2021 he became associate editor of the journal of applied physics. While being dedicated to his research and teaching he also leads the UC Berkeley Bladesmithing team which won the title of “best example of a traditional blade” for UC Berkeley and is the lead faculty for the CalSol solar car racing team which won the American Solar challenge for Berkeley in 2017.
Dr. habil Xufei Fang
Institute for Applied Materials (IAM), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. mont. Markus Alfreider
Department Materials Science, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
Dr. Anna Kareer
Department of Materials, University of Oxford
United Kingdom
Dr. Edoardo Rossi
Department of Civil, Computer Science and Aeronautical Technologies Engineering
Roma Tre University, Italy
Dr. Peter Imrich
KAI Kompetenzzentrum Automobil- und Industrieelektronik GmbH, Austria
Priv. Doz. Dr. Megan J. Cordill
Ass. Prof. Dr. Verena Maier-Kiener
Dr. Michael Tkadletz
Dr. Ude Hangen, Bruker
Dr. Jaroslav Lukes, Bruker
Dr. Eric Hintsala, Bruker
Rhys Jones
Annette Niedballa
Christian Beck