Day One - Tuesday 24th March 2026 | The Slate
9:00 am - 10:00 am
Registration and morning refreshments
10:00 am - 10:10 am
Welcome | Professor Martin Freer, CEO, Faraday Institution
10:10 am - 10:40 am
Keynote Talk | Dr Emma Palin, Senior Electrochemistry Lead, Vertical Aerospace
10:45 am - 11:15 am
Early Career Researcher Talks
11:15 am - 11:45 am
Break (tea, coffee, refreshments)
11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Early Career Researcher Talks
12:45 pm - 2:15 pm
Lunch & Career Cafe
2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Professional Development Training Workshops (2.5hrs)
Storytelling for Research
Learn how to take your peers on a journey and deliver talks with confidence through training with Duncan Yellowlees.
Optimising Beamtime Proposals
Insider guidance on writing strong proposals for Diamond Light Source and ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, with James Le Houx and Gabriel Perez.
People Skills for Research Environments
A practical exploration of communication strategies that reduce misunderstanding, prevent conflict, and strengthen collaborative research.
Scientific Writing
A practical session on improving the clarity and quality of research outputs, including reports and journal articles, led by Scriptoria.
Fellowship Application Writing
An introduction to the fellowship application process, delivered in partnership with the Postdoc and Fellows Development Centre at Imperial College London.
Intellectual Property & Patents
A crash course on the fundamentals of IP and patents, and how they apply to battery research, with Mewburn Ellis LLP.
Please choose your workshop when you register for the conference. Please note attendees can only choose one workshop each to attend.
Radcliffe Conference Centre Breakout Rooms
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Break / check-in to hotel / free time
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Poster Session & Career Cafe
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Dinner
Day Two - Wednesday 25th March 2026 | The Slate
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Keynote Talk | Professor Greg Offer, Professor in Electrochemical Engineering and Principal Investigator for FI project on Multi-Scale Modelling, Imperial College London
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Panel Discussion: Setting up a research group
Chaired by Dr Ieuan Seymour, Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Aberdeen
Dr Laura Lander, Senior Lecturer in Engineering and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, King’s College London
Dr Phoebe Allan, Associate Professor in Materials Chemistry, University of Birmingham
Dr Xuekun Lu, Senior Lecturer in Green Energy, Queen Mary University London
10:15 am - 11:30 am
Parallel selected 10 minute talks and flashtalks
Radcliffe Conference Centre Breakout Rooms
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Break (tea, coffee, refreshments)
Radcliffe Conference Centre Breakout Rooms
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Parallel selected 10 minute talks and flashtalks
Radcliffe Conference Centre Breakout Rooms
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Lunch & Career Cafe
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Keynote Talk | Professor Tom Scott, Professor in Materials, University of Bristol
Nuclear Batteries – a different approach for micropower application
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Panel Discussion: Impacts of research – supporting the global clean energy transition
Chaired by Dr Gyen Ming Angel, Managing Director, Prosemino
Dr Beatrice Browning, Battery Recycling Technology Lead, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
Dr Laura Allerston, Head of Business Development, Smart Villages
Dr Ismail Sami, CEO and Cofounder, Molyon
Dr Pierre Kubiak, Principal Engineer, NPL (National Physical Laboratory)
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Wrap up and Career Cafe
