Agenda

Day 1 - 10th September 2025

Time	Programm
08:00 am	Registration
09:30 am	Welcome address and opening statements
10:15 am	Coffee break
10:30 am - 12:45 pm	Welcome address and opening statements
12:45 pm	Lunch
	Thermochemical Conversion	Bioenergy System Analysis
01:45 pm	Simon Fridolfsson \| Aarhus University "Upgrading Biocrude from Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Sewage Sludge to Support Plasma Torch Splitting of CO2"	Fatou Balleh Jobe \| University of Rostock "Quantitative Assessment of CO₂ Emissions and the Potential for Carbon Capture, Storage, and Utilization in Biogas Plants of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Denmark"
02:15 pm	Mariana Campos Fraga \| Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Catalysis Research and Technology "Catalytic hydrodeoxygenation of ethanol-quenched fast-pyrolysis bio-oils from sugarcane bagasse and straw "	Mohammad Sadr \| Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ "Quantifying the role of natural sinks in Germany’s Carbon Dioxide Removal portfolio: A comprehensive Techno-Economic modeling analysis"
02:45 pm	Madhumita Gogoi Saikia \| Free University of Bozen Bolzano "Predictive Modelling: Oxy-Steam Gasification of Biomass for Enabling Renewable Hydrogen Integration in Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Synthesis"	Lars Bippus \| University of Stuttgart "Prospective Life Cycle Assessment as a Tool for Enhancing Sustainability in Biomanufacturing Processes"
03:15 pm	Gabriel Batista \| University of Hohenheim "Phytotoxicity assessment of hydrochar obtained from hydrothermal liquefaction"	Niloufar Hasanpour Seyedlar \| University College Cork "Building Trust and Trade-Offs: Public Preferences for Anaerobic Digestion Plants in Ireland"
03:45 pm	Group Picture & Break
	Get in touch Session
06:30 pm	Dinner and Networking

Day 2 - 11th September 2025

Time	Programm
09:00 am	Welcome
09:15 am	Keynote Speech
10:00 am	Coffee Break
	Sustainable resource base	Biorefineries & Biofuels
10:30 am	Anna Kerschbaum \| Technical University of Munich "Spatially Resolved Determination of the Renewable Carbon Potential from Biogenic Residues in Germany"	Samira Reuscher \| University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt "Optimization of a microalgae production process combined with wastewater treatment"
11:00 am	Elisa Cerza \| University of Perugia "Sustainable valorization of biomass waste: hydrochars for catalysis and environmental remediation"	Leiddi Leal \| University of Hohenheim "Biomass valorization and phosphate recovery via hydrothermal carbonization within integrated biorefinery processes"
11:30 am	Christoph Siol \| Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum "Assessing Sustainable Straw Utilization: Balancing Field Retention, Industrial Applications, and Circular Resource Flows"	Simon Krake \| Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB "Process optimization of microaerobic hydrogen production by purple bacteria - When waste becomes the fuel of the future"
12:00 pm	Ankush Halba \| Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee "Digital Twin based Integrated GIS-Supply Chain Modeling for Sustainable Pine Needle Biomass Utilization in Uttarakhand, India"	Ahmed Al-Dubai \| Aalborg University "Effect of Microalgal Feedstock Composition on Upgrading Efficiency During Hydrotreatment of Biocrude from Continuous Hydrothermal Liquefaction"
12:30 pm	Lunch break
01:30 pm	Interactive Poster Session
	Biochemical Conversion	6th Session
02:00 pm	Benjamin Friedl \| Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum "Hybrid feature selection for model predictive control based on non-stationary informer"	tbd
02:30 pm	Birk Achenbach \| University of Stuttgart "Process development for the production of terpolymeric polyhydroxyalkanoates"	tbd
03:00 pm	Alberto Meola \| Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum "Multi-step modelling of unstable anaerobic digestion processes with hybrid models for process control"	tbd
03:30 pm	Simon Hellmann \| Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum "A framework for fully automated, demand-oriented biogas plant operation: aspects of a model-based monitoring and control architecture"	tbd
04:15 pm	Award Ceremony
	End of the event