The 38th International Winterschool on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials (IWEPNM) will take place from February 28 until March 06, 2026 in Kirchberg/Tirol, Austria.

Our mission is to give a broad overview over the physics and chemistry of carbon nanostructures, two-dimensional materials and topological systems through a series of invited talks and contributed poster presentations.

The abstract deadline will be in November 2025. Information about registration and abstract submission will follow with the 1st announcement in early fall.

The Kirchberg Winterschool is organized by the groups of

Stephanie Reich (Freie Universität Berlin, DE)
Sebastian Heeg (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE)
Janina Maultzsch (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE)
Andreas Hirsch (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE)
Christoph Stampfer (RWTH Aachen, DE)

Scope

The scope of the winterschool covers experimental and theoretical work in the following fields:

  • materials science of graphene, nanographene, and carbon nanotubes
  • novel two-dimensional materials
  • optics, electronics, growth, and selection of carbon nanotubes and graphene
  • theory of novel materials
  • applications of novel materials
  • nanostructure spintronics
  • topological materials
  • plasmonic nanostructures
  • single-molecule experiments

Program committee

E. Andrei (US) S. Ilani (IL) K. S. Novoselov (SG)
A. Bachtold (ES) A. Jorio (BR) E. Obraztsova (RU)
C. Backes (DE) R. Krupke (DE) Th. Pichler (AT)
H. M. Cheng (CN) H. Kuzmany (AT) M. Prato (IT)
J. Fink (DE) Y. H. Lee (KR) S. Reich (DE)
O. Frank (CZ) Y. Li (CN) P. Rudolf (NL)
M. Glazov (RU) F. Libisch (AT) C. Stampfer (DE)
R. Gorbachev (UK) X. Ling (US) M. Strano (US)
I. Grigorieva (UK) A. Loiseau (FR) K. Suenaga (JP)
S. Haigh (UK) A. Luican-Mayer (US) A. Swan (US)
S. Heeg (DE) S. Maruyama (JP) C. Voisin (FR)
T. Heine (DE) J. Maultzsch (DE) J. Zaumseil (DE)
T. F. Heinz (US) F. Mauri (IT) A. Zettl (US)
A. Hirsch (DE)