EurASc Annual Symposium 2025

from Tuesday, December 16, 2025 (2:00 PM) to Thursday, December 18, 2025 (8:00 PM)
CERN (500/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 16, 2025
Dec 17, 2025
Dec 18, 2025
AM
8:30 AM
EurASc Symposium (session 1) - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq (CERN) (until 10:45 AM)
8:30 AM Welcome from EURASC President - Prof. 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? - Prof. Michel Mayor (Geneva University)  
9:45 AM 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 AM Impact on Society of Fundamental Science - Prof. Tejinder Virdee (Imperial College (GB))  
10:45 AM
Coffee break (until 11:05 AM)
11:05 AM
EURASC Symposium (session 2) - Rodrigo Martins (until 12:35 PM)
11:05 AM Academia Europaea – contributions to societal impacts of fundamental sciences - Prof. Donald Dingwell (University of Munich)  
11:35 AM How to Make Science Practically Useful - Prof. 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)  
8:15 AM
EURASC Annual Meeting (session 1) - Rodrigo Martins (until 10:00 AM)
8:15 AM Next-Gen Skills from Science to Industry empowered by the European Advanced Materials Academy - Dr Didier Zimmermann  
8:30 AM Leonardo Da Vinci Award - "Neurodegenerative disorders : are we wrong?" - Prof. Yves Agid  
9:00 AM Blaise Pascal Medal: Chemistry -"Metals of Life: Sustainability, Therapy and Dynamics" - Prof. Peter Sadler  
9:30 AM Blaise Pascal Medal: Computational and Information Sciences - "Finite Element Methods for Least-Squares Problems" - Prof. Susanne Brenner  
10:00 AM
Coffee break (until 10:30 AM)
10:30 AM
EURASC Annual Meeting (session 2) - Tejinder Virdee (until 12:30 PM)
10:30 AM Blaise Pascal Medal: Earth and Environmental Sciences - "Hybrid and Causal AI for Earth science" - Prof. Gustau Camps-Valls  
11:00 AM Blaise Pascal Medal: Engineering - "A Coupled Thermo-Elastoplastic-Damage Model for Nano-Silica Incorporated Concrete" - Prof. Jiann-Wen Woody Ju  
11:30 AM Blaise Pascal Medal: Mareial Sciences - "Regenerative Engineering: Material Breakthroughs " - Prof. Sir Cato T. Laurencin  
12:00 PM Blaise Pascal Medal: Maythematics - "Complexity and disorder through the eyes of waves" - Prof. Svitlana Mayboroda  
PM
2:00 PM Registration   (building 33)
6:00 PM
Welcome cocktail (until 8:00 PM)
12:35 PM
Lunch break (until 1:45 PM)
1:45 PM
EURASC Symposium (Session 3) - Alain Tressaud (until 3:00 PM)
1:45 PM High-power batteries for the e-VTOL field - Dr Guannan Zhu  
2:00 PM 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)  
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 - Dr Florian Kongoli (FLOGEN Technologies Inc)  
3:00 PM
Coffee break (until 3:20 PM)
3:20 PM
Symposium - Armando Pombeiro (until 4:30 PM)
3:20 PM The societal impact of fundamental research and technology sovereignty – two antipodes? The case of advanced materials in Europe - Dr 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. - Prof. 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 - 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)  
4:15 PM Wetland’s biogeochemistry: a framework driving from basic research to climate change mitigation - Prof. Antonio Camacho (University of Valencia)  
4:30 PM
Vist ATLAS experiment and the SC (until 7:00 PM)
7:30 PM
Social Dinner (until 10:00 PM)
12:30 PM
Lunch break (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM
EURASC Annual Meeting (session 3) - Peter Jenni (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM Blaise Pascal Medal: Medicine and Life Sciences - "Life With Two X Chromosomes" - Prof. Edith Heard   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
2:30 PM 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)
3:00 PM Blaise Pascal Medal - Social Sciences and Humanities - "Rendering the molecular world" - Soraya de Chadarevian   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
3:30 PM
Coffee break (until 4:00 PM)
4:00 PM
EURASC Annual Meeting (session 4) - Rodrigo Martins (until 6:00 PM)
4:00 PM Welcome & Diploma to New Members - Prof. Rodrigo Martins   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
4:30 PM Honor for Distinguished Leadership to Prof. Claude Debru and Prof .Sasa Divjak   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
4:45 PM EURASC 2025 Annual Event closing session - Rodrigo Martins   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
5:00 PM EURASC General Meeting - Prof. Rodrigo Martins   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)