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2023 French/German Adsorption Conference
Held in Strasbourg (France) between Oct. 24, 2023 and Oct. 26, 2023, this first joint, binational meeting on adsorption is organized by the FRA/GER adsorption initiative -- with support from the French and German Adsorption Societies. This city, which is ideally located near the French/German border, provides a great venue for such a scientific conference. The conference will consists of a two-day meeting with both oral and poster presentations. More details on conference organization will be provided later but please already mark the dates in your calendar.
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2022 PhD confernce of the German Adsorption Society
Held in Erlangen (Germany), this PhD seminar on Adsorption is organized by Matthias Thommes' group on September 29th/30th. As part of the FRA/GER initiative efforts, the German Adsorption Society opens this "PhD conference" to French students and non-permanent staff (master/doctoral students, postdocs). This initiative is an excellent opportunity for the non-permanent members of our communities to broaden their perspectives but also to establish links beyond our borders. More information can be found in this PDF
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Young Scientist Exchange
Recently, Jean-Wilfried Vignile Hounfodji, a PhD student from University of Abomey-Calavi (BENIN)/University of Lorraine (FRANCE), joined Prof. Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern for 6 months funded by the MPI guest program (Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik komplexer technischer Systeme). Jean-Wilfried will measure and analyze breakthrough curves in the lab in Magdeburg, Germany. This will be a good preparation for his subsequent PostDoc stay with Prof. Michael Badawi at University of Lorraine.
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Board of the French-German Adsorption Initiative
The board of the French-German Adsorption Initiative has now been appointed. It is composed of 3 German and 3 French researchers active in the field of adsorption science and technology (with one Chair from each country). More details can be found in the people page
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2022 Annual Meeting of the French Adsorption Society (AFA 2022)
Initially planned in Nancy (France), due to the current COVID situation, this meeting was held as a virtual event on Jan. 27-28 using the software Gathertown. Several colleagues from the German adsorption community were invited - including Dieter Bathen, Andreas Seidel-Morgenstern, Matthias Thommes, and Stefan Kaskel. The link to the final program and the AFA website can be accessed by clicking here
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2021 Dechema Adsorption Meeting (2021)
On the occasion of the annual meeting of the German Adsorption Society (Jahrestreffen der ProcessNet-Fachgruppe Adsorption), several colleagues from the French adsorption community were invited - including Benoit Coasne, Cecile Vallieres and Matthieu Vandamme. The link to the conference and the German Adsorption Society can be accessed by clicking here