Two full day workshop to discuss both computational and experimental challenges in the research area of materials for energy at the Burleigh Court Conference Centre in Loughborough, 4th-5th March 2026

Speakers include: Robert Weatherup (Oxford), Ieuan Seymour (Aberdeen), Emma Kendrick (Birmingham), Clotilde Cucinotta (Imperial), James Dawson (Newcastle), Frank De Groot (Utrecht).

Registration fee of £150 (including evening meal) or £125 (no evening meal) should be paid following the event booking link above (registration opens soon).

We do not organise accommodation, but you can contact Burleigh Court Conference Centre if you want to try to book a room at the conference centre.

(When registering, if a member of the MCC please provide your three letter MCC group code or enter “FI” if a member of the Faraday Institution and not an MCC member. If you are not an MCC member nor a member of the Faraday Institution then please insert none)

We encourage participants to present their work. Abstract submission: please use our 2026 abstract template and email to organisers at

klmc.mcc@ucl.ac.uk

before 16th February 4pm.

Expected attendance is ~40 delegates, with a maximum of 50, and we will distribute tickets on the first come first served system.

Organisers:

FI: James Gaade, Martin Freer, Chris Skylaris

MCC: Richard Catlow, Aron Walsh, Ben Morgan, Scott Woodley, Alexey Sokol

Local hosts (MCC): Pooja Goddard, Jamie Christie

The workshop programme and talk abstracts will be made available on this webpage soon.