Advanced Battery Power:
Conference language is English
Advanced Battery Power 2026 – Agenda Day 1
First day of the 18th International Battery Conference in Münster, Germany. Parallel sessions focusing on battery safety, solid-state batteries and sodium-ion technology.
The conference language is English.
Day 1 // April 14, 2026
Session chairs: Prof. Dr. Martin Winter, Prof. Dr. Dirk Uwe Sauer
12:00 – 13:00
Registration
13:00 – 13:20
Welcome
Prof. Dr. Martin Winter
Universität Münster | MEET & FZ Jülich | Helmholtz Institut Münster
Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels
President of the University of Münster
Mona Neubaur
Ministerin für Wirtschaft, Industrie, Klimaschutz und Energie des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Prof. Dr. Werner Klaffke
HDT (Haus der Technik e.V.)
Location: Plenary hall
Plenary Lectures // Keynote Speaker
Session chairs: Prof. Dr. Dirk Uwe Sauer, Prof. Dr. Martin Winter
13:20 – 13:55
Can batteries live forever?
Prof. Maitane Berecibar
VUB – Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Location: Plenary hall
13:55 – 14:30
Thermal safety of lithium batteries and beyond – Can we balance high risk/high gain and low risk/low return?
Dr. Markus Börner
MEET Battery Research Center
Location: Plenary hall
Poster Session and Exhibition
14:30 – 15:30
Poster Session 1 (even poster numbers) and Exhibition
15:15 – 15:35
Coffee break and exhibition
Parallel Session 1
15:35 – 16:55
Session 1A
Life Cycle 2: LCA & LCC
Session chairs:
Dipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Heiner Hans Heimes, RWTH Aachen
Dr. Eberhard Meißner
Location: Red Room
| 15:35 | Design Matters: How Cell Architecture Shapes the Per- formance, Cost, and Environmental Impact of Battery Technologies | Nicolas Kaiser Duc Minh Nguyen Co-Autoren: Florian Hölting, Martin Florian Börner, Mark Junker, Moritz Fabian Schütte, Florian Ringbeck, Dirk Uwe Sauer | CARL, RWTH Aachen University |
| 15:55 | Cradle-to-Use Life Cycle Assessment of Sodium-ion Batteries: The Role of Electricity Mix and Regional Production and Usage | Aya Rageh Co-Autoren: Alastair Hales, Jemma Rowlandson, Marie Pinochet | University of Bristol |
| 16:15 | Sustainable Energy Concepts For Battery Cell Production In North America | Philipp Sanders Co-Autoren: Tarek Lichtenfeldt; Prof. Dr. Simon Lux | Fraunhofer FFB |
| 16:35 | Power play: A multi-criteria analysis of present and future battery technologies. | PhD Evangelos Kallitsis Co-Autoren: Aditya Anindito Widayat, Gregory J. Offer, Jacqueline S. Edge | Imperial College London |
| 15:35 | 14.04.2026 Session 1A 15:35 Uhr Nicolas Kaiser Duc Minh Nguyen Co-Autoren: Florian Hölting, Martin Florian Börner, Mark Junker, Moritz Fabian Schütte, Florian Ringbeck, Dirk Uwe Sauer CARL, RWTH Aachen University Design Matters: How Cell Architecture Shapes the Per- formance, Cost, and Environmental Impact of Battery Technologies |
| 15:55 | 14.04.2026 Session 1A 15:55 Uhr Aya Rageh Co-Autoren: Alastair Hales, Jemma Rowlandson, Marie Pinochet University of Bristol Cradle-to-Use Life Cycle Assessment of Sodium-ion Batteries: The Role of Electricity Mix and Regional Production and Usage |
| 16:15 | 14.04.2026 Session 1A 16:15 Uhr Philipp Sanders Co-Autoren: Tarek Lichtenfeldt; Prof. Dr. Simon Lux Fraunhofer FFB Sustainable Energy Concepts For Battery Cell Production In North America |
| 16:35 | 14.04.2026 Session 1A 16:35 Uhr PhD Evangelos Kallitsis Co-Autoren: Aditya Anindito Widayat, Gregory J. Offer, Jacqueline S. Edge Imperial College London Power play: A multi-criteria analysis of present and future battery technologies. |
15:35 – 16:55
Session 1B
Pack Level 2: Diagnostic & Battery Management
Session chairs:
Prof. Dr. Egbert Figgemeier, Helmholtz-Institut Münster, RWTH Aachen Universität
Prof. Maitane Berecibar, VUB – Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Location: Plenary hall
| 15:35 | Cyclic Lifetime of a Nickel-Rich NMC Pouch Cell Doubled by Quasi-Isobar Operation Using Compression Pads | Hendrik Laufen Co-Autoren: Sascha Berg, Christiane Rahe, Dirk Uwe Sauer | CARL, RWTH Aachen University |
| 15:55 | OCV-ICA: Online diagnostics on reconstructed OCV curves from operational data | PhD Preben J. S. Vie Co-Autoren: Julia Wind | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| 16:15 | Operando diagnostics of the open-circuit voltage curve of batteries with voltage-controlled models | Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bessler Co-Autoren: Jonas Braun | Offenburg University of Applied Sciences |
| 16:35 | From risk analysis to advanced diagnostics: a global approach for lithium-ion battery pack safety | Aurélia Ditto | CEA |
| 15:35 | 14.04.2026 Session 1B 15:35 Uhr Hendrik Laufen Co-Autoren: Sascha Berg, Christiane Rahe, Dirk Uwe Sauer CARL, RWTH Aachen University Cyclic Lifetime of a Nickel-Rich NMC Pouch Cell Doubled by Quasi-Isobar Operation Using Compression Pads |
| 15:55 | 14.04.2026 Session 1B 15:55 Uhr PhD Preben J. S. Vie Co-Autoren: Julia Wind NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology OCV-ICA: Online diagnostics on reconstructed OCV curves from operational data |
| 16:15 | 14.04.2026 Session 1B 16:15 Uhr Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bessler Co-Autoren: Jonas Braun Offenburg University of Applied Sciences Operando diagnostics of the open-circuit voltage curve of batteries with voltage-controlled models |
| 16:35 | 14.04.2026 Session 1B 16:35 Uhr Aurélia Ditto CEA From risk analysis to advanced diagnostics: a global approach for lithium-ion battery pack safety |
15:35 – 16:55
Session 1C:
Cell Level 2: Thermal Safety
Session chairs:
Dr. Falko Schappacher, Meet Battery Research Center
Dr. Markus Börner, MEET Battery Research Center
Location: Green Room
| 15:35 | Vibration Monitoring of Lithium-Ion Batteries for Early Failure Prediction | Dr. rer. nat. Axel Kramer Co-Autoren: Minglong He, Daniel Landmann, Pirmin Tröndle, Andreas Port | ABB Switzerland |
| 15:55 | Kinetic Analysis of crosstalk and gas evolution during thermal abuse of Li-ion batteries | Jorge Roberto Valenzuela García de León Co-Autoren: Leon Schmidt und Ulrike Krewer | Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) |
| 16:15 | Thermal-mechanical-electrochemical coupling in high-rate performance of large Li-ion cells | PhD Tihana Stefanic Co-Autoren: Charles Monroe, David Howey | University of Oxford |
| 16:35 | Linking Fast-Discharging Dynamics to Gas Evolution and Safety in Lithium-Ion Batteries | PhD Jingwen Wendy Weng Co-Autoren: Carlos Garcia, Zixuan Gai, Gregory James Offer | Imperial College |
| 15:35 | 14.04.2026 Session 1C 15:35 Uhr Dr. rer. nat. Axel Kramer Co-Autoren: Minglong He, Daniel Landmann, Pirmin Tröndle, Andreas Port ABB Switzerland Vibration Monitoring of Lithium-Ion Batteries for Early Failure Prediction |
| 15:55 | 14.04.2026 Session 1C 15:55 Uhr Jorge Roberto Valenzuela García de León Co-Autoren: Leon Schmidt und Ulrike Krewer Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) Kinetic Analysis of crosstalk and gas evolution during thermal abuse of Li-ion batteries |
| 16:15 | 14.04.2026 Session 1C 16:15 Uhr PhD Tihana Stefanic Co-Autoren: Charles Monroe, David Howey University of Oxford Thermal-mechanical-electrochemical coupling in high-rate performance of large Li-ion cells |
| 16:35 | 14.04.2026 Session 1C 16:35 Uhr PhD Jingwen Wendy Weng Co-Autoren: Carlos Garcia, Zixuan Gai, Gregory James Offer Imperial College Linking Fast-Discharging Dynamics to Gas Evolution and Safety in Lithium-Ion Batteries |
Lightning Talks
16:55 – 17:50
Lightning Talks
Session chair:
Prof. Dr. Martin Winter, Universität Münster | MEET & FZ Jülich | Helmholtz Institut Münster
Location: Plenary hall
| P1-037 | Taylored anolyte design for enhanced cycling stability in a semi-solid lithium sulfur battery cell design with fully separated anolyte and catholyte | M.Sc. Maria Semmler Co-Autoren: Sebastian Kirchhoff, Magdalena Fiedler, Arthur Dupuy, Paul Härtel, Felix Hippauf, Susanne Dörfler, Benjamin Schumm, Thomas Abendroth, Holger Althues, Stefan Kaskel | Fraunhofer Institut für Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik (IWS) | |
| P1-071 | Polyvinylene carbonate in anodes as strategy to form a stable artificial SEI in Lithium-Ion-Batteries | Nina Philipp Co-Autoren: Jakob Schlenkrich, Sebastian Melzig, Sabrina Zellmer | TU Braunschweig - Institut für Partikeltechnik | |
| P1-081 | From material stoichiometry screening to kg-scale synthesis: NaxFe0.1MgyMn0.6-zNi0.3-y+zO2 layered oxide cathode material for sodium ion batteries | Timo Werner Co-Autoren: Timm Müller, Marco Hebel, Lukas Pfeiffer, Peter Axmann | Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) | |
| P1-095 | Novel Polysaccharide Binder for N-Methyl-2-Pyrrolidone-Based Electrode Processing of Ni-rich Layered Oxide Cathodes | Laurin Profanter Co-Autoren: Aleksei Kolesnikov, Hyuck Hur, Simon Albers, Johanna Kauling, Martin Winter, Johannes Kasnatscheew | MEET Battery Research Center, University of Münster | |
| P2-019 | From Pixels to Plating: A Vision Pipeline for Decoding Lithium Plating | Thorsten Tegetmeyer-Kleine Co-Autoren: Heinrich Ditler, Dirk Uwe Sauer, Weihan Li | CARL, RWTH Aachen University | |
| P2-098 | POLIDEMO: A Physics-based Degradation Model For Capacity Loss and Irreversible Swelling Prediction | Assistant Professor Davide Clerici Co-Autoren: Francesca Pistorio, Aurelio Somà | Politecnico di Torino | |
| P2-107 | Comparative study on NMP- vs. water-based pH-controlled Na4Fe3(PO4)2(P2O7)/C cathode manufacturing for long-term cycling Na-ion batteries | Florian Mückan Co-Autoren: T. Boenke, F. Hoffmann, T. Abendroth, H. Althues, S. Kaskel | Fraunhofer Institut für Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik IWS | |
| P3-022 | Development of SoC Algorithms for NMC and Na-ion Batteries by Transfer Learning and Recurrent Networks | Dr. Josu Olmos Amondarain Co-Autoren: M. Azkue, M. Usabiaga, I. Gandiaga | IKERLAN Technology Research Centre | |
| P4-023 | Implementation of a real-time state-observer for Li-Ion cells using a thermo-electrochemical model and Extended Kalman Filter | Marie Göhring Co-Autoren: Frédéric Justus Kauffmann, Nadja Lang, Hendrik Pegel, Dominik Wycisk, Ernst Richter, Kajetan Nürnberger, Thomas Danner, Alexander Fill, Kai Peter Birke | Mercedes-Benz AG | |
| P5-011 | Remodification of Recycled Graphite with Amorphous Carbon from Organic Precursors: A Simple Route to Enhanced Particle Characteristics and Battery Performance | Felix Frobart Co-Autoren: Peter Michalowski, Arno Kwade | Technische Universität Braunschweig |
| P1-037 Lightning-Talk M.Sc. Maria Semmler Co-Autoren: Sebastian Kirchhoff, Magdalena Fiedler, Arthur Dupuy, Paul Härtel, Felix Hippauf, Susanne Dörfler, Benjamin Schumm, Thomas Abendroth, Holger Althues, Stefan Kaskel Fraunhofer Institut für Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik (IWS) Taylored anolyte design for enhanced cycling stability in a semi-solid lithium sulfur battery cell design with fully separated anolyte and catholyte |
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| P1-071 Lightning-Talk Nina Philipp Co-Autoren: Jakob Schlenkrich, Sebastian Melzig, Sabrina Zellmer TU Braunschweig - Institut für Partikeltechnik Polyvinylene carbonate in anodes as strategy to form a stable artificial SEI in Lithium-Ion-Batteries |
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| P1-081 Lightning-Talk Timo Werner Co-Autoren: Timm Müller, Marco Hebel, Lukas Pfeiffer, Peter Axmann Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) From material stoichiometry screening to kg-scale synthesis: NaxFe0.1MgyMn0.6-zNi0.3-y+zO2 layered oxide cathode material for sodium ion batteries |
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| P1-095 Lightning-Talk Laurin Profanter Co-Autoren: Aleksei Kolesnikov, Hyuck Hur, Simon Albers, Johanna Kauling, Martin Winter, Johannes Kasnatscheew MEET Battery Research Center, University of Münster Novel Polysaccharide Binder for N-Methyl-2-Pyrrolidone-Based Electrode Processing of Ni-rich Layered Oxide Cathodes |
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| P2-019 Lightning-Talk Thorsten Tegetmeyer-Kleine Co-Autoren: Heinrich Ditler, Dirk Uwe Sauer, Weihan Li CARL, RWTH Aachen University From Pixels to Plating: A Vision Pipeline for Decoding Lithium Plating |
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| P2-098 Lightning-Talk Assistant Professor Davide Clerici Co-Autoren: Francesca Pistorio, Aurelio Somà Politecnico di Torino POLIDEMO: A Physics-based Degradation Model For Capacity Loss and Irreversible Swelling Prediction |
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| P2-107 Lightning-Talk Florian Mückan Co-Autoren: T. Boenke, F. Hoffmann, T. Abendroth, H. Althues, S. Kaskel Fraunhofer Institut für Werkstoff- und Strahltechnik IWS Comparative study on NMP- vs. water-based pH-controlled Na4Fe3(PO4)2(P2O7)/C cathode manufacturing for long-term cycling Na-ion batteries |
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| P3-022 Lightning-Talk Dr. Josu Olmos Amondarain Co-Autoren: M. Azkue, M. Usabiaga, I. Gandiaga IKERLAN Technology Research Centre Development of SoC Algorithms for NMC and Na-ion Batteries by Transfer Learning and Recurrent Networks |
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| P4-023 Lightning-Talk Marie Göhring Co-Autoren: Frédéric Justus Kauffmann, Nadja Lang, Hendrik Pegel, Dominik Wycisk, Ernst Richter, Kajetan Nürnberger, Thomas Danner, Alexander Fill, Kai Peter Birke Mercedes-Benz AG Implementation of a real-time state-observer for Li-Ion cells using a thermo-electrochemical model and Extended Kalman Filter |
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| P5-011 Lightning-Talk Felix Frobart Co-Autoren: Peter Michalowski, Arno Kwade Technische Universität Braunschweig Remodification of Recycled Graphite with Amorphous Carbon from Organic Precursors: A Simple Route to Enhanced Particle Characteristics and Battery Performance |
17:50
End of the First Day
ab 18:30
18:15 Bus transfer
in front of the Congress Center
Lab tour of the MEET battery research centre
Exclusively for participants.
Participation is limited.
Online registration (free of charge) is required.
University of Münster
MEET Battery Research Center
Corrensstr. 46
48149 Münster
ab 19:00
18:15 Bus transfer
in front of the Congress Center
Guided tour of the FFB PreFab battery cell factory
Exclusively for participants.
Participation is limited.
Online registration (free of charge) is required.
Fraunhofer FFB
PreFab
Lübecker Str. 36
48163 Münster
ca. 20:15-20:30
Return of the Buses