Erlangen-Edinburgh School of Adsorption 2025

Prof. Matthias Thommes (Institute of Separation Science and Technology (TVT), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Prof. Stefano Brandani (University of Edinburgh) are pleased to invite you to the Erlangen-Edinburgh School of Adsorption 2025, which will take place from September 2 – 5, 2025 in Erlangen (Germany).

The School is aimed to PhD students, PostDocs and researchers in academia and industry willing to gain a deeper insight of the fundamental aspects of adsorption science and engineering.

The School is based on over 15 years of experience in delivering lectures in adsorption courses at the MEng level. It is structured as an intensive 3.5-day programme including formal lectures, discussion periods and tutorials covering the following main topics:

• Adsorption equilibrium – low and high pressure
• Advanced physisorption characterization of nanoporous materials
• Adsorption kinetics
• Gas storage using adsorption
• Advanced separation processes
• Adsorbent structure and catalysis

The course includes an extended tour of the laboratories to combine theory with practice.

Lecturers:

Prof. Dr. Matthias Thommes (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Prof. Dr. Stefano Brandani (University of Edinburgh)

Prof. Dr. Martin Hartmann (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Dr. Enzo Mangano (University of Edinburgh)

Guest lecturers from industry:

Dr. Federico Brandani (Air Liquide)

Dr. Tim Golden (Air Products)

General Course Information

An overview of the schedule is shown below.

The registration fee includes also: lunches and coffee breaks as well as a dinner on Tuesday and a beer cellar event / dinner on Wednesday.

Venue:

Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Emmy-Noether lecture hall H12

Cauerstraße 11

91058 Erlangen, Germany

Bus stop: Erlangen Technische Fakultät:

From Erlangen train station, you can take the bus 293 (Bruck Bahnhof) or 287 (Erlangen Sebaldussiedlung)

You can find the bus schedule for Erlangen on the VGN page.

Registration and fees

Registration to EESA 2025 is now open: https://www.conftool.com/eesa2025

Early bird registration deadline: 31. July 2025. Registration is possible until 22. August 2025

Registration fees:

Contact in case of questions: eesa2025@conftool.com

Limited discounted prices for PhD students are available. To be selected, the students should send a 0.5 – 1 page statement in support containing details of their research background/topic, why the attendance to the school is relevant for their research and which of the topics covered they would be most interested. Deadline for the application is 31. July 2025. Please send the statement to eesa2025@conftool.com.

Accommodation

Erlangen has a range of hotels to suit all requirements.

Some rooms are reserved for EESA 2025 in the hotels Altstadthotel Grauer Wolf, Zeitwohnhaus Suite Hotel and Holiday Inn Express Erlangen until 04.08.2023. These rooms can be booked here or via e-mail (tourist@etm-er.de) or phone (+49 9131 89510 ) using the code “EESA 2025”.

Additional options can be found in the city center of Erlangen, e.g. Novotel Erlangen, NH Hotel Erlangen

Getting to Erlangen

Air

• Airport Nuremberg – Getting to Erlangen takes approx. 30 min by public transport. You can either take the bus Nr. 30 to Erlangen or the subway U2 to Nuremberg train station followed by the train to Erlangen.
• Frankfurt Airport – Getting to Erlangen takes approx. 3 h by public transport. You can take the train via Nürnberg train station to Erlangen.
• Munich Airport – Getting to Erlangen takes approx. 2.5 – 3h by public transport. You can take the train S8 to Munich train station. From there, you can take the train to Erlangen via Nürnberg train station.

Train

Erlangen has a good train connection to Nuremberg, which has connections to many German cities. You can find more information here.

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