Programme – Nordbatt 2026

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Day 1: Tuesday September 22^nd
Time	What	Presenter	Title
9:00	Registration
9:20	Conference opening	Olli Sorsa, VTT, Finland	Welcome to NordBatt 2026
	Session 1 Chair Olli Sorsa
9:40	Invited	Samson Yuxiu Lai, IFE Institute for Energy Technology, Norway	Smart Batteries: Sensing and Self-Healing Progress and Challenges from the SALAMANDER Project
10:10	Industry	Lotta Gustavsson, Skeleton Technologies, Finland	Making high-power batteries through aqueous electrode production
10:20	Coffee Break
	Session 2: Chair
10:40	Industry
10:50	Oral	Yury Ivanov, LUT University, Finland	Machine learning-based State-of-Health estimation of Lithium-Ion batteries from narrow voltage intervals
11:10	Oral	Ekta Singh Shrinet, University of Agder, Norway	A Multi-Scale Framework for Holistic Prismatic Battery Thermal Management: Coupling Internal Dynamics with External Regulation
11:30	Oral	Georg Roeder, Fraunhofer IISB, Germany	A dual-head temporal convolutional network approach for cloud-based battery state-of-health prognostics in a digital twin
11:50	Industry	, Ioncor, Finland
12:00	Lunch
	Session 3 Chair Wessel van Ekeren
13:00	Invited	Prof. Arghya Bhowmik, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark	Towards Differentiable, Machine-Learning-Accelerated Battery Simulations Across Scales
13:30	Oral	Johannes Bakkelund, University of Agder, Norway	Electrolyte motion induced solid-phase lithium inhomogeneity in lithium-ion batteries
13:50	Oral	Amber Mace, Uppsala University, Sweden	Modeling Ion Transport in Solid-State Electrolytes: From the Perspective of Potential Energy Surfaces
14:10	Oral	Doniyor Urishov, VTT, Finland	Multi-scale degradation modelling of lithium-ion batteries
14:30	Industry	Simon Steensen, PhaseTree A/S, Denmark	Accelerating Battery Innovation through Multiscale Modeling: PhaseTree’s Integrated Approach
14:40	Coffee Break
	Session 4 Chair Prof. Johannes Landesfeind
15:10	Invited	Prof. David Hall, University of Stavanger, Norway	Entropy Sinks the Convex Hull in Sodiated Black Phosphorus
15:40	Oral	Yaqi Li, Aalborg University, Denmark	In situ monitoring of Lithium-ion Battery Health Using Acoustic Emissions
16:00	Oral	Mahla Bakhshi, University of Agder, Norway	Novel quantification techniques for electrolyte motion induced salt inhomogeneity in aged battery electrodes
16:20	Oral	Ulriika Mattinen, University of Turku, Finland	Harvesting chemical aging data from batteries with gas sensors
16:40	Industry	Prof. Eric Logan, TA Instruments, Sweden	Isothermal microcalorimetry techniques for assessing battery degradation: Theory and application
16:50
17:00	Poster Session

Day 2: Wednesday September 23^rd
Time	What	Presenter	Title
	Session 5 Chair
9:00	Plenary	Prof. Corsin Battaglia, Empa, ETH, EPFL, Switzerland	Understanding and Controlling Solid Electrolyte Interphase Formation in Lithium-Ion Batteries
9:40	Oral	Deobrat Singh, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden	Li₃OCl\|Li Interfaces for Solid‑State Batteries: A Defect‑Engineering Study
10:00	Oral	Jiaqi Huang, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden	Nano-confinement engineered glassy MOF electrolytes for high-performance lithium metal batteries
10:20	Coffee Break
	Session 6 Chair
10:40	Invited	Prof. Claudio Gerbaldi, Politecnico Torino, Italy	Polymer-based electrolytes for solid-state batteries, addressing energy density, safety and sustainability
11:10	Oral	Isabelle Abbas, NTNU, Norway	Synthesis of asymmetric sodium spiroborate monomers for single-ion sodium conducting polymer electrolytes
11:30	Oral	Hazzalea Elyse Reyes, Åbo Akademi, Finland	Nanocellulose Fibril-Templated Preparation of Na1+xZr2SixP3-xO12 (NZSP) NASICON Electrolytes
11:50	Industry	William Brant, Altris Ab, Sweden	Sodium-ion batteries designed for energy resilience
12:00	Lunch
	Session 7 Chair
13:00	Plenary	Prof. Magda Titirici, Imperial College London, United Kingdom	Beyond Li: Na, K and Al based batteries-progress, challenges and prospects
13:40	Oral	Anders Gaarud, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden	Insights into the electrochemical performance of hard carbon from wood in Na-ion battery negative electrodes
14:00	Oral	Alireza Rahmani, University of Eastern Finland, Finland	ALD Al2O3 artificial SEI for improved stability of porous silicon anodes
14:20	Oral	Prof. Patrik Johansson, Uppsala University, Sweden	Entropy, Electrolytes and Electrodes
14:40	Coffee Break
	Session 8 Chair
15:10	Invited	Prof. Kerstin Forsberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden	Understanding the impact of solid impurities in battery recycling
15:40	Oral	Jere Leinonen, Oulu University, Finland	Effect of Calcination on Full-Cell Performance of P2-NaxFe1/2Mn1/2O2 Cathode
16:00	Oral	Mohamad Khoshkalam, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark	Layered Oxide Cathodes with Ambient Processing for Potassium-Ion Batteries
16:20	Oral	Marie Uth, Aarhus University, Denmark	Developing zwitterionic binder systems for water-processable lithium-ion battery cathodes with high voltage stability
16:40	Oral	Prof. Pekka Peljo, Aalto University, Finland	Improving the performance of solid boosters in flow batteries
17:00
19:00	Conference Dinner at Dipoli

Day 3: Thursday September 24^th
Time	What	Presenter	Title
	Session 9 Chair
9:00	Invited	Prof. Linas Vilčiauskas, FTMC, Lithuania	Design and Advanced Characterization of Aqueous Na- and Zn-Ion Battery Materials
9:30	Oral	Wessel Van Ekeren, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark	Automated development of PFAS-free aqueous electrolytes for Na-ion batteries
9:50	Oral	Nils Peter Wagner, Sintef, Norway	Revisiting spiroborate salts beyond bis(oxalate) borate as fluorine free electrolytes for sodium ion batteries
10:10	Industry	Samuli Räsänen, Hycamite, Finland	From methane to battery-grade graphite: production, properties and electrochemical performance
10:20	Coffee Break
	Session 10 Chair Tuomas van der Meer
10:40	Invited	Prof. Mari Lundström, Aalto University, Finland	The role of electrified hydrometallurgical unit processes in Li-battery recycling
11:10	Oral	Gulsah Tas, Aalto University, Finland	An investigation on the pyrolysis, flotation and leaching for the recycling of spent lithium-ion batteries
11:30	Oral	Simon Duda, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden	Insights into the pre-treatment of spent LFP (LiFePO4) EV batteries for direct recycling purposes
11:50	Industry	Martta Ääri, Fortum, Finland	Enabling Industrial-Scale Battery Recycling: Insights from an Innovation Fund Project
12:00	Lunch
	Session 11 Chair
13:00	Oral	Zelalem Bitew Deress, NTNU, Norway	Transport Numbers of Ion-Exchange Membranes in Divalent Sulfate Electrolytes for Lithium- Ion Battery Recycling Applications
13:20	Oral	Kasper Westman, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden	The secret life of e-scooter batteries
13:40	Oral	Fride Vullum-Bruer, Sintef Energi, Norway	Analysis of optimization strategies for utilization of second life BESS to achieve maximum savings
14:00	Conference closing	Olli Sorsa, VTT, Finland	Closure + NordBatt 2028