International Metasoft Summer School: pre-registrations are open!

The Metasoft Matter Major research programme is organizing a summer school on soft matter and interfaces, from May 30 to June 4, 2027, at the Roscoff Biological Station (France).

Lectures from researchers with complementary expertise in soft matter, interfaces and materials science will give participants a broad overview of the fundamentals of soft matter research. The programme will also include sessions on machine learning for physics and chemistry, publishing ethics, and deep tech and industrial R&D, as well as two poster sessions where participants can present their work and exchange ideas with fellow attendees and lecturers.

Lecturers:

• Catherine Barentin, Professor at Lyon 1 University - institut Lumière Matière (iLM)
• Ilies Belayachi, CEO and founder of Kyneon, a deep-tech company
• Anne-Laure Biance, CNRS research director - institut Lumière Matière (iLM)
• Julien Bras, Professor at Grenoble INP, Grenoble Alpes Université - Laboratory of process engineering for biorefinery, bio-based materials and functional printing (LGP2)
• Pierre-Thomas Brun, Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium
• Élisabeth Charlaix, Professor at Grenoble Alpes Université - Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Physics (LIPhy)
• Jérôme Crassous, Professor at Rennes University - Institute of Physics of Rennes (IPR)
• Christian George, CNRS Research Director - Institute of Research on Catalysis and Environment of Lyon (IRCELYON)
• Frédéric Kanoufi, CNRS Research Director - Interfaces, Treatments, Organization and Dynamics of Systems (ITODYS)
• Marie Lamblet, Deputy Innovation on Circularity in Saint-Gobain Research
• Sophie Marbach, Mistral AI
• Julien Scheibert, CNRS Research Director - Tribology and Systems Dynamics Laboratory (LTDS)
• Martin Van Hecke, Professor at Leiden University, Netherlands

Details on the programme and organization can be found here: https://ecole-metasoft.sciencesconf.org/

To pre-register, use the “Registration” tab and fill in the form, including an abstract for the poster presentation and a few lines of text describing your motivation to attend the school. Pre-registrations close on December 1. As the number of places is limited, the organizing committee reserves the right, depending on the number of applications, to select participants based on how well their profiles fit the themes of the school. Selected participants will be notified during January and invited to confirm their place by paying the registration fee.

Registration fee: €550 per participant. No payment is required at this stage.
The fee covers accommodation in a shared room for the duration of the summer school, all meals from Monday morning to Friday morning (except the dinner on Wednesday evening), coffee breaks, and the shuttle transfer between Morlaix train station and the Roscoff Biological Station on the arrival and departure days. Dinner on Sunday evening (arrival day) is not included.
Travel to Morlaix, by train or by car, is not included and remains the responsibility of the participants. Only the shuttle from Morlaix to Roscoff is covered by the registration fee.