ISHA seminar
ISHA seminar is an online seminar series operated by ISHA members. The seminar series began in April 2022 and has provided inspiring research discussions.
The purpose of the ISHA seminar is to have active academic interactions in the solvothermal/hydrothermal research field, including widely various researchers from different countries at different career stages.
The ISHA seminar consists of only invited talks. This seminar series particularly encourages early-career-stage researchers.
Anyone who is interested can join without a participation fee.
ISHA seminar series 2026Monthly seminar is organized by the following team with 12 researchers over the world. January, Saskia SCHIMMEL, FAU, GermanyFebruary,
Adrián Sanz ARJONA, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkMarch, Danilo CANTERO, University of Valladolid, SpainApril, Fatih GULEC, University of Nottingham, UKMay, Zhendong LIU, Tsinghua University, ChinaJune, Tae Jun YOON, Seoul National University, KoreaJuly, Silke BEHRENS, KIT, GermanyAugust,
Thomas CHAMBERLAIN, University of Leeds, UKSeptember,
Gilles PHILIPPOT, University of Bordeaux, France
October,
Miriam UNTERLASS, Fraunhofer Institute, GermanyNovember,
Akira YOKO, Tohoku University, JapanDecember,
Peter DUNNE, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Upcoming eventISHA seminar 2026-3 [25th March 2026]Date: 25th March, Wednesday, 2026Time 20:00-22:00 (JST), 12:00-14:00 (CET), 07:00-09:00 (EST)Free to participateOnline (Link will be sent after registration)Registration: Register in advance for this meeting:After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with a meeting link.
Chairperson: Dr. Danilo Cantero, University of Valladolid, SpainProgram 12:00 (CET) Enkeledo MenallaDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology, University of Valladolid, Spain “Continuous Hydrothermal Hydrolysis of Glycerides and Biopolyesters: Linking Reaction Engineering and Selectivity Control with Product Development and Process Integration”
13:00 (CET) Dharani PrasadDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, USA“Integrated Systems Approach for Valorizing Agricultural Wastes in a Sustainable Circular Bioeconomy with Energy and Nutrient Recovery”
Finished events in 2026Date: 17th February, Tuesday, 2026Chairperson: Dr. Adrián Sanz Arjona, University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Denmark (DTU), DenmarkProgram 12:00 (CET) Dr. Laura Glei GraversenDepartment of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark “Elucidating the Structure of Ultrasmall Multimetallic Oxides” 13:00 (CET) Dr. Andreas Dueholm BertelsenDepartment of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark“Using In Situ Solvothermal Experiments to Rationalize and Accelerate Lab-Scale Synthesis”
Date: 26th January, Monday, 2026Chairperson: Dr. Saskia Schimmel, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), GermanyProgram➢ 12:00 (CET) Dr. Tomasz SochackiInstitute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw,Poland“Ammonothermal Growth of GaN Crystals: From Fundamentals to the Stateof the Art”➢ 13:00 (CET) Dr. Marek ZakInstitute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland“Insights into Ammonothermal GaN Crystallization: ComputationalModeling, Process Optimization, and Future Technology Scaling”
Finished events in 2022~2024The 1st ISHA-ISSF seminar [2024 June 25th] Dr. Giulia IschiaMax Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany “Hydrothermal processes to valorize residual biomass”
*****************************************************************************The 9th ISHA seminar
[2023 March 31nd] Dr. Gilles PHILIPPOTCondensed Matter Chemistry of Bordeaux – CNRS, University of Bordeaux, France“Custom synthesis of zirconia nanocrystals in supercritical fluid media: from monoclinic to tetragonal structure” Dr. Jonathan De ROODepartment of Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland “The mechanism of ZrO2 nanocrystal synthesis in presence of surfactant”
The 8th ISHA seminar
[2023 February 22nd] Dr. Taehyun KIMDepartment of Chemistry, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea “Hydrothermal Synthesis of Redox-active Polyimide-based Materials for Lithium-ion Battery Electrodes” Dr. Peter DUNNESchool of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland “The solvothermal synthesis of soluble, surface modified metal oxide nanoparticles”
The 7th ISHA seminar
[2023 January 30th] Dr. Alexandru TANASEDepartment of Chemistry, The University of Warwick, UK “Hydrothermal synthesis of multiple cation-doped ceria materials for catalysis and battery applications”
The 6th ISHA seminar
[2022 November 28th] Dr. Fatih GULEC Faculty of Engineering, The University of Nottingham, UK “Hydrothermal conversion of biomass to X – Process conditions and feedstocks” Mr. Hanifrahmawan SUDIBYOSmith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, US “Sustainable Resource Recovery from Agricultural and Food Wastes using Hydrothermal Liquefaction and Struvite Crystallization”
The 5th ISHA seminar
[2022 September 21th] Dr. Kathryn E. KNOWLES Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, US“Chemical Strategies to Control Formation of Transition Metal Oxide Nanocrystals under Solvothermal Reaction Conditions” Ms. Lauren WALTERSDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, US“Building Density Functional Theory Based Thermodynamic Models for Hydrothermal Synthesis-by-Design”
The 4th ISHA seminar
[2022 August 25th] Dr. Lucy GLOAGSchool of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Australia“Solution synthesis of branched and decorated nanoparticles for electrocatalysis” Dr. Heng ZHONGSchool of Environmental Science & Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China“Hydrothermal conversion of wasted carbon sources into value-added chemicals”
The 3rd ISHA seminar
[2022 July 14th] Professor Dr. Kirill KOVNIRIowa State University Department of Chemistry, United States“Intercalation, Oxidation, and Bond Formation in 1D and 2D Iron Chalcogenides”
The 2nd ISHA seminar
[2022 June 13th] Dr. Marion LOUVELCNRS Campus Orléans: Orleans, Centre, France“Hydrothermal speciation of REE by in-situ XAS” Dr. Florentina MAXIM"Ilie Murgulescu" Institute of Physical Chemistry, Romania“Water phase changes in the supercritical domain”
The 1st ISHA seminar
[2022 April 28th] Mr. Lukas GROTEUniversity of Hamburg, Germany“In situ HERFD-XANES and X-ray scattering studies on the non-classical formation of CoO nano-assemblies” Dr. Ken YOSHIDATokushima University, Japan“Adsorption and Film-Formation of Corrosion-Protective Aliphatic Amines on Metal Surface in Hot Water”
January, Saskia SCHIMMEL, FAU, GermanyFebruary, Adrián Sanz ARJONA, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkMarch, Danilo CANTERO, University of Valladolid, SpainApril, Fatih GULEC, University of Nottingham, UKMay, Zhendong LIU, Tsinghua University, ChinaJune, Tae Jun YOON, Seoul National University, KoreaJuly, Silke BEHRENS, KIT, GermanyAugust, Thomas CHAMBERLAIN, University of Leeds, UKSeptember, Gilles PHILIPPOT, University of Bordeaux, France
October, Miriam UNTERLASS, Fraunhofer Institute, GermanyNovember, Akira YOKO, Tohoku University, JapanDecember, Peter DUNNE, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland