Monday 7 – Friday 11 April 2025
Protea Hotel Walvis Bay in Pelican Bay, Namibia
The Chem4Energy community has grown out of a number of collaborative UK-Africa consortium programmes and 2025 will see the fourth in this series of annual meetings, which focus in particular on:
- Highlighting the synergy between experiment and computation
- Offering opportunities for early career researchers to disseminate their work in oral and poster presentations – often their first conference talk!
- Allowing plenty of opportunity for discussion of the research presentations
The Chem4Energy conferences aim to bring together local academic and industrial researchers and developers from Namibia with colleagues from Europe, the USA and further afield, to discuss the latest developments in sustainable energy materials and processes, build new collaborations, and influence and support future directions in the field of sustainable energy research.
Although contributions in all areas within the Chem4Energy remit are welcome, core themes of the 2025 meeting include:
• Homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis for clean energy production;
• CO2 capture and utilisation;
• Materials for solar energy devices;
• Nuclear energy;
• Hydrogen production, storage and transport;
• High-performance computing in energy research.
Key dates & information
- Call for abstracts and registration opens: Monday 22 July 2024
- Abstract submission deadline for oral or poster presentation: Friday 1 November 2024
- Bursary applications: Friday 8 November 2024
- Abstract acceptance notification (oral or poster): Friday 22 November 2024
- Registration deadline for presenting authors: Friday 17 January 2025
- Registration closes and final payments: Friday 14 February 2025
Bursaries
Chem4Energy will be able to award one student with a bursary to include the registration fee, accommodation and travel expenses. This bursary is kindly sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Each applicant needs to submit a research statement (up to half a page) and presentation abstract (half page), with no less than 2cm margins and font size of at least Calibri 10 or similar, as well as a full CV. Applicants are usually studying for a PhD research degree and need to be within 10 years of obtaining their undergraduate degree to be eligible for a bursary. Please note, the bursary will not be paid directly to the awardee.
Applications should be submitted to [email protected] by Friday 8 November 2024.