Montpellier - France

18th International Conference
on Inorganic Membranes

June 29th – July 3rd 2026
icim202618th international conference on inorganic membranes

Confirmed Invited Speakers

Dr. Catherine MARICHY | University Claude Bernard, Lyon 1- UCB - LMI - Villeurbanne (FRANCE)
TITLE: Controlled modification of the surface properties of ceramic membranes for water filtration
Dr. David Alfredo PACHECO TANAKA | TECNALIA Research & Innovation, Basque Research & Technology Alliance, San Sebastián (SPAIN)
TITLE: Carbon molecular sieve membranes for gas separation and membrane reactors
Dr. Elisa MERCADELLI | Institute of Science, Technology and Sustainability for Ceramics - CNR-ISSMC, Faenza (ITALY)
TITLE: Ceramic Composite Membranes: Integrating Manufacturing, Reliability, and Sustainability
Dr. Francisco R. GARCIA GARCIA | School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh (UNITED KINGDOM)
TITLE: Re-engineering on-board hydrogen production: hollow fibre-based reactors for ammonia cracking
Dr. Marie-Alix PIZZOCCARO-ZILAMY | Institute of Energy Materials and Devices- Forschungszentrum Jülich (GERMANY) & Inorganic Membrane Group- University of Twente (NETHERLANDS)
TITLE: Alkylphosphonic Acid-Grafting a PFAS-Free strategy to produce hydrophobic ceramic membranes
Dr. Marie-Laure BOCQUET | École Normale Supérieure, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, Paris (FRANCE)
TITLE: Interfacial Reactivity of Hydrophilic 2D Membranes: Ab Initio Insights into Water/h‑BN and Water/GO Systems
Dr.-Ing. Hannes RICHTER | Fraunhofer-Institut für Keramische Technologien und Systeme - IKTS, Hermsdorf (GERMANY)
TITLE: Carbon and Zeolite Membranes in the H2 Economy
Prof. Canghai MA | State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Dalian University of Technology, Liaoning - Dalian (CHINA)
TITLE: Precision Engineering of Carbon Molecular Sieve Membranes for Challenging Gas Separations
Prof. James VAUGHAN | School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Queensland - Brisbane (AUSTRALIA)
TITLE: Recent advances and steps toward commercialisation of membrane percrystallisation
Prof. Louis WINNUBST | University of Twente, Enschede (THE NETHELANDS)
TITLE: Fabrication of asymmetric ceramic membranes in one step via phase inversion tape casting
Prof. Murielle RABILLER-BAUDRY | University of Rennes - Institute of Chemical Sciences (ICSR) - Rennes (FRANCE)
TITLE: Comparative Fouling Behavior of MF/UF Membranes with Skim Milk: Inorganic vs. Polymeric Materials
Prof. Olivier JOUBERT | University of Nantes, Institut des Matériaux de Jean Rouxel - IMN - Nantes (FRANCE)
TITLE: Materials development for proton and oxygen ceramic electrochemical cells
Prof. Wei-Song HUNG | National Taiwan University of Science and Technology - NTUST - Taipei (TAIWAN)
TITLE: Piezoelectric-responsive graphene membranes for simultaneous water production and electricity generation
Prof. Xuehong GU | State Key Lab of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University - Nanjing (CHINA)
TITLE: Preparation and Gas Separation of Hollow Fiber Supported Zeolite Membranes
Prof. Xuerui WANG | State Key Lab of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Tech University - Nanjing (CHINA)
TITLE: High-Silica CHA Zeolite Membranes with Ultrahigh Kr/CF4 Selectivity for High-Purity Krypton Purification