EurASc Annual Symposium 2025

from Tuesday, 16 December 2025 (14:00) to Thursday, 18 December 2025 (20:00)
CERN (500/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
16 Dec 2025
17 Dec 2025
18 Dec 2025
AM
08:30
EurASc Symposium (session 1) - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq (CERN) (until 10:45)
08:30 Welcome from EURASC President - Prof. Rodrigo Martins (EurASc President)  
08:35 Welcome from EURASC Symposium chairman - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq (CERN)  
08:45 Welcom from CERN DG and talk: CERN’s mission and impact on society - Fabiola Gianotti (CERN)  
09:15 Plurality of Worlds, Plurality of Inhabited Worlds? - Prof. Michel Mayor (Geneva University)  
09:45 About the Impact of European Academies of Engineering in European social, economic and technological development - Prof. Sebastiao Feyo de Azevedo (University of Porto)  
10:15 Impact on Society of Fundamental Science - Prof. Tejinder Virdee (Imperial College (GB))  
10:45
Coffee break (until 11:05)
11:05
EURASC Symposium (session 2) - Rodrigo Martins (until 12:35)
11:05 Academia Europaea – contributions to societal impacts of fundamental sciences - Prof. Donald Dingwell (University of Munich)  
11:35 How to Make Science Practically Useful - Prof. Martin Carrier (Bielefeld University)  
11:50 Solvay Institutes: Over a Century of Scientific Excellence & a Bright Future - Yves Geerts (Université Libre de Bruxelles et Instituts Solvay)  
12:05 Conservation planning for climate change amid deep uncertainties - Camille PARMESAN (CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research))  
12:20 From CERN to Industry and Beyond: Digital Twin Applications Powered by AI - Gang Mu (Swiss Applied Mathematical Society)  
08:15
EURASC Annual Meeting (session 1) - Rodrigo Martins (until 10:00)
08:15 Next-Gen Skills from Science to Industry empowered by the European Advanced Materials Academy - Dr Didier Zimmermann  
08:30 Leonardo Da Vinci Award - "Neurodegenerative disorders : are we wrong?" - Prof. Yves Agid  
09:00 Blaise Pascal Medal: Chemistry -"Metals of Life: Sustainability, Therapy and Dynamics" - Prof. Peter Sadler  
09:30 Blaise Pascal Medal: Computational and Information Sciences - "Finite Element Methods for Least-Squares Problems" - Prof. Susanne Brenner  
10:00
Coffee break (until 10:30)
10:30
EURASC Annual Meeting (session 2) - Tejinder Virdee (until 12:30)
10:30 Blaise Pascal Medal: Earth and Environmental Sciences - "Hybrid and Causal AI for Earth science" - Prof. Gustau Camps-Valls  
11:00 Blaise Pascal Medal: Engineering - "A Coupled Thermo-Elastoplastic-Damage Model for Nano-Silica Incorporated Concrete" - Prof. Jiann-Wen Woody Ju  
11:30 Blaise Pascal Medal: Mareial Sciences - "Regenerative Engineering: Material Breakthroughs " - Prof. Sir Cato T. Laurencin  
12:00 Blaise Pascal Medal: Maythematics - "Complexity and disorder through the eyes of waves" - Prof. Svitlana Mayboroda  
PM
14:00 Registration   (building 33)
18:00
Welcome cocktail (until 20:00)
12:35
Lunch break (until 13:45)
13:45
EURASC Symposium (Session 3) - Alain Tressaud (until 15:00)
13:45 High-power batteries for the e-VTOL field - Dr Guannan Zhu  
14:00 Ensuring Trustworthy and Sustainable Measurements in the AI Era: Quantifying Uncertainty and Environmental Impact - Prof. Leopoldo Angrisani (Dept. of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Napoli Federico II)  
14:15 How physics fundamentally limits promises of Artificial Intelligences - Eric Suraud  
14:30 How life experiences influence health across generations: An epigenetic perspective - Isabelle Mansuy  
14:45 FLOGEN NEW SUSTAINABILITY FRAMEWORK AND THE SOCIETAL IMPACT OF FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE - Dr Florian Kongoli (FLOGEN Technologies Inc)  
15:00
Coffee break (until 15:20)
15:20
Symposium - Armando Pombeiro (until 16:30)
15:20 The societal impact of fundamental research and technology sovereignty – two antipodes? The case of advanced materials in Europe - Dr Jürgen Tiedje (EU DG Research)  
15:45 From a material developed for solar cells applications to innovative helium targets´ fabrication for fundamental nuclear reaction studies. - Prof. Asunción Fernández (Materials Science Institute of Seville, CSIC-Univ. Seville, Spain)  
16:00 Impact of physical properties of nanomaterials in the next generation diagnostic devices - Prof. 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)  
16:15 Wetland’s biogeochemistry: a framework driving from basic research to climate change mitigation - Prof. Antonio Camacho (University of Valencia)  
16:30
Vist ATLAS experiment and the SC (until 19:00)
19:30
Social Dinner (until 22:00)
12:30
Lunch break (until 14:00)
14:00
EURASC Annual Meeting (session 3) - Peter Jenni (until 15:30)
14:00 Blaise Pascal Medal: Medicine and Life Sciences - "Life With Two X Chromosomes" - Prof. Edith Heard   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
14:30 Blaise Pascal Medal: Physics - "Re-inventing X-ray Imaging – Still possible more than 125 years after its discovery?" - Prof. Franz Pfeiffer   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
15:00 Blaise Pascal Medal - Social Sciences and Humanities - "Rendering the molecular world" - Soraya de Chadarevian   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
15:30
Coffee break (until 16:00)
16:00
EURASC Annual Meeting (session 4) - Rodrigo Martins (until 18:00)
16:00 Welcome & Diploma to New Members - Prof. Rodrigo Martins   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
16:30 Honor for Distinguished Leadership to Prof. Claude Debru and Prof .Sasa Divjak   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
16:45 EURASC 2025 Annual Event closing session - Rodrigo Martins   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
17:00 EURASC General Meeting - Prof. Rodrigo Martins   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)