Name: EurASc Annual Symposium 2025
Start: 2025-12-16T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-12-18T20:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

EurASc Annual Symposium 2025

from Tuesday, December 16, 2025 (2:00 PM) to Thursday, December 18, 2025 (8:00 PM)

Monday, December 15, 2025
Tuesday, December 16, 2025

2:00 PM Registration
Registration
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: building 33

6:00 PM Welcome cocktail

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
8:30 AM EurASc Symposium (session 1)
8:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome from EURASC President - Rodrigo Martins (EurASc President)

8:35 AM Welcome from EURASC Symposium chairman - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq (CERN)

8:45 AM Welcom from CERN DG and talk: CERN’s mission and impact on society - Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)

9:15 AM Plurality of Worlds, Plurality of Inhabited Worlds? - Michel Mayor (Geneva University)

9:45 AM About the Impact of European Academies of Engineering in European social, economic and technological development - Sebastiao Feyo de Azevedo (University of Porto)

10:15 AM Impact on Society of Fundamental Science - Tejinder Virdee (Imperial College (GB))
10:45 AM Coffee break

10:45 AM - 11:05 AM
11:05 AM EURASC Symposium (session 2)
11:05 AM - 12:35 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

11:05 AM Academia Europaea – contributions to societal impacts of fundamental sciences - Donald Dingwell (University of Munich)

11:35 AM How to Make Science Practically Useful - Martin Carrier (Bielefeld University)

11:50 AM Solvay Institutes: Over a Century of Scientific Excellence & a Bright Future - Yves Geerts (Université Libre de Bruxelles et Instituts Solvay)

12:05 PM Conservation planning for climate change amid deep uncertainties - Camille PARMESAN (CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research))

12:20 PM From CERN to Industry and Beyond: Digital Twin Applications Powered by AI - Gang Mu (Swiss Applied Mathematical Society)
12:35 PM Lunch break

12:35 PM - 1:45 PM
1:45 PM EURASC Symposium (Session 3)
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

1:45 PM High-power batteries for the e-VTOL field - Guannan Zhu

2:00 PM Ensuring Trustworthy and Sustainable Measurements in the AI Era: Quantifying Uncertainty and Environmental Impact - Leopoldo Angrisani (Dept. of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Napoli Federico II)

2:15 PM How physics fundamentally limits promises of Artificial Intelligences - Eric Suraud

2:30 PM How life experiences influence health across generations: An epigenetic perspective - Isabelle Mansuy

2:45 PM FLOGEN NEW SUSTAINABILITY FRAMEWORK AND THE SOCIETAL IMPACT OF FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE - Florian Kongoli (FLOGEN Technologies Inc)
3:00 PM Coffee break

3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
3:20 PM Symposium: EURASC Symposium (Session 4)
EURASC Symposium (Session 4)
3:20 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

3:20 PM The societal impact of fundamental research and technology sovereignty – two antipodes? The case of advanced materials in Europe - Jürgen Tiedje (EU DG Research)

3:45 PM From a material developed for solar cells applications to innovative helium targets´ fabrication for fundamental nuclear reaction studies. - Asunción Fernández (Materials Science Institute of Seville, CSIC-Univ. Seville, Spain)

4:00 PM Impact of physical properties of nanomaterials in the next generation diagnostic devices - Arben Merkoci (Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology; ICREA - Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avancats)

4:15 PM Wetland’s biogeochemistry: a framework driving from basic research to climate change mitigation - Antonio Camacho (University of Valencia)
4:30 PM Vist ATLAS experiment and the SC

4:30 PM - 7:00 PM

7:30 PM Social Dinner

7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Thursday, December 18, 2025
8:15 AM EURASC Annual Meeting (session 1)
8:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

8:15 AM Next-Gen Skills from Science to Industry empowered by the European Advanced Materials Academy - Didier Zimmermann

8:30 AM Leonardo Da Vinci Award - "Neurodegenerative disorders : are we wrong?" - Yves Agid

9:00 AM Blaise Pascal Medal: Chemistry -"Metals of Life: Sustainability, Therapy and Dynamics" - Peter Sadler

9:30 AM Blaise Pascal Medal: Computational and Information Sciences - "Finite Element Methods for Least-Squares Problems" - Susanne Brenner
10:00 AM Coffee break

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM EURASC Annual Meeting (session 2)
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

10:30 AM Blaise Pascal Medal: Earth and Environmental Sciences - "Hybrid and Causal AI for Earth science" - Gustau Camps-Valls

11:00 AM Blaise Pascal Medal: Engineering - "A Coupled Thermo-Elastoplastic-Damage Model for Nano-Silica Incorporated Concrete" - Jiann-Wen Woody Ju

11:30 AM Blaise Pascal Medal: Mareial Sciences - "Regenerative Engineering: Material Breakthroughs " - Sir Cato T. Laurencin

12:00 PM Blaise Pascal Medal: Maythematics - "Complexity and disorder through the eyes of waves" - Svitlana Mayboroda
12:30 PM Lunch break

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
2:00 PM EURASC Annual Meeting (session 3)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

2:00 PM Blaise Pascal Medal: Medicine and Life Sciences - "Life With Two X Chromosomes" - Edith Heard

2:30 PM Blaise Pascal Medal: Physics - "Re-inventing X-ray Imaging – Still possible more than 125 years after its discovery?" - Franz Pfeiffer

3:00 PM Blaise Pascal Medal - Social Sciences and Humanities - "Rendering the molecular world" - Soraya de Chadarevian
3:30 PM Coffee break

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
4:00 PM EURASC Annual Meeting (session 4)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

4:00 PM Welcome & Diploma to New Members - Rodrigo Martins

4:30 PM Honor for Distinguished Leadership to Prof. Claude Debru and Prof .Sasa Divjak

4:45 PM EURASC 2025 Annual Event closing session - Rodrigo Martins

5:00 PM EURASC General Meeting - Rodrigo Martins