Energy materials for net zero: what can modelling do for you?

One of a series of 3 workshops organised by Cambridge Zero throughout March, focussed on a broad common theme of materials and the transition to net-zero. These in-person workshops are supported by the Natural Environment Research Council as part of their Cross-disciplinary Research for Discovery Science activities. These workshops are targeted at an internal Cambridge University academic audience. Early Career Postdoctoral Researchers are also very welcome to attend.

This event is co-organised with the Department of Materials Science, the Energy IRC and the Henry Royce Institute.

Aim: To showcase work and increase interdisciplinary collaboration and dialogue between experimental and modelling communities working on energy materials for Net Zero across departments in Cambridge. This participatory workshop will highlight applications across the field and lay the groundwork for collaborative research bids around pre-defined breakout topic areas.

Format: The workshop will consist of a series of short presentations from colleagues emphasising their work in this area, and in particular across the theory-experiment divide, followed by time for facilitated breakout discussions on several pre-defined topics. The breakout discussions will be structured around a template for a £10M Grand Challenge research proposal. Outcomes from the workshop discussions will be used to shape the development of new cross-disciplinary research funding proposals. There will be the opportunity to network afterwards in the W Café & Bar.

Draft Workshop Programme:

12.00-13.00 [Optional] Light Sandwich Lunch

13.00-13.10 Welcome and Introduction from Cambridge Zero

13.10-14.30 Short presentations by the following panel of speakers:

• Dr Bartomeu Monserrat, Assistant Professor in Computational Materials Science
• Prof Manish Chhowalla, Professor of Materials Science
• Dr Kara Fong, Research Associate in Chemistry
• Dr Jenny Zhang, Research Fellow in Chemistry
• More Speakers TBC soon

14.30-15.00 Q&A with speaker panel

15.00-15.30 Tea/Coffee Break

15.30-16.30 Facilitated breakout group discussions on the following topics:

• Modelling as a means to understand experiment
• Modelling as a means to guide experiment
• Creating a joint theory-experiment platform across Cambridge to share data

16.30-17.00 Plenary Discussion: feedback from breakout groups, actions and next steps

17.00 onwards [Optional] Drinks in W Café & Bar

Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/energy-materials-for-net-zero-what-can-modelling-do-for-you-tickets-525457356097

Other workshops in this series:

• Circular economy and waste, 13.00-18.00 Monday 13 March, Maxwell Centre, JJ Thompson Avenue
• Environmental, social and ethical dimensions of materials for net zero, 12.00-15.00 Friday 24 March, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering

If you have any questions, please contact Alison at Alison.Holroyd@admin.cam.ac.uk