Deadline for Abstracts Submission:

The Organizing Committee would like to announce the postponement of the deadline for abstracts submission: March 31, 2017.

Plenary Lectures:

The Organizing Committee is glad to announce that the Plenary Lectures are now fully confirmed. More details in the page Speakers.

Conference Best
Presentation Awards:

The International Society of Electrochemistry will award the Best Oral and Best Poster presentations given by PhD students and young researchers up to the age of 30. More details in the page Conference Awards.

Conference Accommodation Grants:

The Hyceltec 2017 Organizing Committee will offer some accommodation grants to a number of presenting PhD students up to the age of 30. More details in the page Conference Awards.

Dr. Paulo Ferreira is currently Robert & Jane Mitchell Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Engineering and Full Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is also the Director of the Electron Microscopy facility at the Texas Materials Institute. He has a Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois, USA, and has done his Post-doctoral work at MIT in Materials Science and Engineering. He concentrates his scientific research in the areas of Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology and Electron Microscopy applied to Alternative Energy Technologies.
At the educational level, he teaches graduate courses in Nanotechnology, Structures and Electron Microscopy and is the Assistant Advisor to the Graduate Program in Materials Science at the University of Texas at Austin. In parallel, he has been involved in initiatives with various American and Portuguese institutions in the areas of Education and Higher Education, Systems of Innovation, and Science and Technology.
He is co-author of three books, namely “Materials 2000”, IST Press, 2003; “Investing in the Future: University-Industry Collaborations in USA and Portugal”; and “Nanotechnology for Architects, Designers and Engineers” with co-authors D. Schodek (Harvard University) and Michael Ashby (University of Cambridge, UK). He is also the author of more than 160 papers scientific articles published in international journals and conference proceedings. In addition, Prof. Ferreira is part of the Editorial Board of Review of “Metallurgical and Materials Transactions”. Prof. Ferreira has also acted as a special advisor to the Minister of Economics and Innovation, Portugal, on Government Strategy for Science & Technology.

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Important Dates

October 18^th, 2016
First Circular, Conference Announcement

December 31^st, 2016
Second Circular, Website Opening

January 16^th, 2017
Registration and Abstracts Submission Opening

March 3^rd, 2017
Deadline for Abstracts Submission

March 31^st, 2017
Extended Deadline for Abstract Submission

April 24^th, 2017
Abstracts Acceptance Notification

May 12^th, 2017
Deadline for Early Bird Registration

May 31^st, 2017
Deadline for Late Abstracts Submission (only for poster presentation)

June 1^st, 2017
Opening for Manuscripts Submission for the Special Issue in IJHE

June 24^th, 2017
Opening for Manuscripts Submission for the Special Issue in Electrochimica Acta

September 15^th, 2017
Extended Deadline for Manuscripts Submission for the Special Issue in IJHE

October 8^th, 2017
Deadline for Manuscripts Submission for the Special Issue in Electrochimica Acta