20th International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering

AUGUST 31 – SEPTEMBER 3, 2026
TRADE FAIR ERFURT / CONGRESS CENTER
ERFURT, GERMANY

Committees

Chair

European Joint Committee on Plasma and Ion Surface Engineering (EJC / PISE)

Michael Thomas (Chairman)
Fraunhofer Institut für Schicht- und Oberflächentechnik IST,
Bienroder Weg 54 e
38108 Braunschweig
Germany

Contact

Team of PSE2026

PSE2026 Chairwoman

Prof. Sandra Carvalho
Universities of Minho, Portugal

PSE2026 Co-Chairman

Dr. Ulf Seyfert
VON ARDENNE GmbH, Germany

PSE2026 Co-Chairman Asia

Prof. Masafumi Ito
Meijo University, Japan

PSE2026 Partner Country Iberia

Dr. Ramón Escobar Galindo
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

Scientific Program

Prof. Sandra Carvalho
University of Minho, Department of Physics, Campus de Gualtar
Portugel

Contact

International Program Committee IPC

Farzaneh Arefi-Khonsari, Paris (F)
Pavel Baroch, Plzen (CZ)
Sandra Carvalho, Coimbra (P)
Ramón Escobar Galindo, Sevilla (E)
Gloria Gottardi, Trento Povo (I)
Daniel Lundin, Linköping (S)
Tomas Polcar, Prague (CZ)
Helmut Riedl, Wien (AU)
Juan Carlos Sanchez-Lopez, Sevilla (E)
Ulf Seyfert, Dresden (D)
Sebastian Siol, Dübendorf (CH)
Rony Snyders, Mons (B)
Michael Thomas, Braunschweig (D)

European Joint Committee on Plasma Surface Engineering

Austria
Thomas Müller
Belgium
Prof. Rony Snyders
Czech Republic
Prof. Petr Zeman
Prof. Hynek Biederman
Denmark
Dr. Klaus Pagh Almtoft
Finland
Prof. Elbahri Madi
Prof. Jari Koskinen
France
Prof. Thierry Czerwiec
Prof. Farzaneh Arefi-Khonsari
Germany
Prof. Michael Thomas
Prof. Holger Kersten
Italy
Prof. Matteo Gherardi
Prof. Pietro Favia
The Netherlands
Dr. Philipp Immich
Poland
Prof. Krzysztof Zdunek
Portugal
Prof. Albano Cavaleiro
Prof. Sandra Carvalho
Russian Federation
Prof. Evgeny A. Levashov
Slovenia
Prof. Miha Cekada
Spain
Inigo Braceras
Dr. Marta Brizuela Parra
Sweden
Prof. Daniel Lundin
Dr. Tomas Nyberg
Switzerland
Dr. Edmund Schüngel
Ukraine
Prof. Alexander Pogrebnjak
United Kingdom
Prof. Allan Matthews
Prof. Arutiun P. Ehiasarian

Advisory Board

Peter Awakowicz, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Hana Barankova, University Uppsala, Sweden
Marcela Bilek, The University of Sydney, Australia
Annemie Bogaerts, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
Rony Brandenburg, Leibniz INP, Germany
Wonho Choe, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Uros Cvelbar, Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Diederik Depla, University Ghent, Belgium
Gheorghe Dinescu, National Institute for Laser, Romania
Rémi Dussart, GREMI Université d´Orléans, France
Filipe Fernandes, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
Carlos Figueroa, Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brazil
Evangelos Gogolides, National Technical University, Greece
Jón Tómas Guðmundsson, University of Iceland, Iceland
Dirk Hegemann, Empa, Switzerland
Maciej Jaroszewski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Vincent Jouseaume, CEA, France
Peter Kelly, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Jyh-Wei Lee, Ming Chi University of Technology, Taiwan
M. K. Lei, Dalian University of Technology, China
Ludvik Martinu, Université de Montréal, Canada
Paul Mayrhofer, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Christian Mitterer, Montan Universität Leoben, Austria
Rino Morent, Ghent University, Belgium
Tomohiro Nozaki, Tokyo Instiute of Technology, Japan
Tamás Ollár, HUN-REN, Hungary
Fabio Palumbo, CNR NANOTEC, Italy
Ivan Petrov, University of Illinois, USA
Yi-Kang Pu, Tsingua University, China
Sandra Rudil, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Jolanta-Ewa Saphieha, Université de Montréal, Canada
Yuzo Shigesato, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
Ric P. Shimshock, MLD Technologies LLC, USA
Eugen Stamate, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Philippe Steyer, MatéIS, France
Vítězslav Straňák, University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Jacek Tyczkowski, Technical University Lodz, USA
Achim von Keudell, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Erik Wagenaars, University of York, United Kingdom
Lenka Zajickova, CEITEC & Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Management

Europäische Forschungsgesellschaft Dünne Schichten e.V.
European Society of Thin Films
Gostritzer Str. 63, 01217 Dresden, Germany