We are organizing a minicolloquium (MC) during the 30th general conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society to be held in Milan (Italy) on September 4-8, 2023, jointly organized with FisMat, the biennial conference of the Italian community of condensed matter physics, optics, liquids and soft matter. (see https://eventi.cnism.it/cmd30-fismat)

The topic of the MC is “Soft Matter and Environmental Challenges” (https://eventi.cnism.it/cmd30-fismat/minicolloquia). This MC aims at bringing together all scientists who belong to the broad soft condensed matter community and its interfaces and whose research contributes to a rational understanding and design of approaches, tools and materials for the development of a more sustainable future. We anticipate that the minicolloquium will be the occasion to make a rather exhaustive inventory of the research conducted in the field of soft matter in relation to the environmental challenges that the world is currently facing.

Confirmed invited speakers: E. Del Gado and M. Corredig.

Abstract submissions for both poster and oral presentations are open until April the 15th.

We also kindly ask you to distribute this announcement among your potentially interested colleagues and students.

Thanks and regards

Laurence Ramos, on behalf of the Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics section of the CMD: Mikko Alava (Aalto University,Finland), Nuno Araujo, Secretary (Lisbon University, Portugal), Daniela Kraft (Leiden University, The Netherlands), Catherine O’Sullivan (Imperial College London, UK), Laurence Ramos, Chair (CNRS&Montpellier University, France), Anna Stradner (Lund University, Sweden), Dimitris Vlassopoulos (Forth, Crete, Greece), Emanuela Zaccarelli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy).