40th anniversary of the Kirchberg Winterschool

2025 marks the 40th anniversary of the Kirchberg Winterschool – International Winterschool on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials (IWEPNM). The first conference in our series took place in February 1985 with polymers as its central theme. Since then, the topics discussed in Kirchberg have continuously evolved – polymers, high-Tc superconductors, fullerenes, nanotubes, organic materials, 2D materials, and many more, but the Kirchberg feeling has remained the same - lively, open minded, and highly spirited.

We want to celebrate this exciting anniversary with you. As always, expect a great scientific program plus an evening of celebration including all former and the present main organizers of Kirchberg.

Important Dates

The winterschool will be conducted from March 8 to March 14, 2025
at the Hotel Sonnalp in Kirchberg in Tirol, Austria. 

If you would like to apply for participation, you will need to create an account on our website. The registration and abstract submission deadline is November 22, 2024. Information about registration and abstract submission will follow with the 1st and 2nd announcements.

The Winterschool lasts from Saturday afternoon, March 8, to Friday morning, March 14. There will be an informal reception party on Saturday, March 8, starting around 9 pm. If you arrive in time you can have dinner at the Hotel Sonnalp before the reception party. The scientific program starts on Sunday (March 9) morning and ends on Thursday (March 13) evening. Departure is on Friday (March 14) after breakfast.

Program Committee

E. Andrei (US) H. Kataura (JP) S. Reich (DE)
A. Bachtold (ES) R. Krupke (DE) J. Robertson (UK)
C. Backes (DE) H. Kuzmany (AT) S. Roth (DE)
H. M. Cheng (CN) Y. H. Lee (KR) P. Rudolf (NL)
J. Fink (DE) Y. Li (CN) C. Schönenberger (CH)
M. Glazov (RU) F. Libisch (AT) P. Sheng (CN)
R. Gorbachev (UK) A. Loiseau (FR) F. Simon (HU)
I. Grigorieva (UK) S. Maruyama (JP) C. Stampfer (DE)
S. Haigh (UK) J. Maultzsch (DE) M. Strano (US)
S. Heeg (DE) F. Mauri (IT) K. Suenaga (JP)
T. Heine (DE) K. S. Novoselov (UK) A. Swan (US)
T. F. Heinz (US) E. Obraztsova (RU) C. Voisin (FR)
A. Hirsch (DE) A. Penicaud (FR) J. Zaumseil (DE)
S. Ilani (IL) Th. Pichler (AT) A. Zettl (US)
A. Jorio (BR) M. Prato (IT)

Invited Speakers

Eva Andrei (Piscataway, US) Philip Kim (Cambridge, US)
Nurit Avraham (Rehovot, IL) Xi Ling (Boston, US)
Ingrid Barcelos (Sao Paulo, BR) Annick Loiseau (Chatillon, FR)
Marc Bockrath (Columbus, US) Steve Louie (Berkeley, US)
Lapo Bogani (Oxford, UK)* Marceo Lozada Hidalgo (Manchester, UK)
Christoph Brabec (Erlangen, DE) Adina Luican-Mayer (Ottawa, CA)
Andres Castellanos-Gomez (Madrid, ES) Dominik Lungerich (Seoul, KR)
Alexey Chernikov (Dresden, DE) Shigeo Maruyama (Tokyo, JP)
Cory Dean (New York, US)* Francesco Mauri (Rome, IT)
Otakar Frank (Prague, CZ) Lukas Novotny (Zurich, CH)
Irina Grigorieva (Manchester, UK) Maurizio Prato (Trieste, IT)
Stefan Hecht (Berlin, DE) Raquel Queiroz (New York, US)
Sebastian Heeg (Berlin, DE) Archana Raja (Berkeley, US)
Tony Heinz (Stanford, US)* Sivan Refaely-Abramson (Rehovot, IL)*
Helen Hölzel (Giessen, DE) Mariana Rossi (Hamburg, DE)
Shahal Ilani (Rehovot, IL) Sunmin Ryu (Pohang, KR)
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (Cambridge, US) Helene Seiler (Berlin, DE)
Ado Jorio (Belo Horizonte, BR) Hadrien Vignaud (Barcelona, ES)
Sabrina Jürgensen (Berlin, DE) Xiaodong Xu (Seattle, US)
Christoph Kastl (Munich, DE) Alex Zettl (Berkeley, US)*
Hiromichi Kataura (Tokyo, JP) Jiong Zhao (Hongkong, CN)

* speakers whose attendance has yet to be confirmed