International Conference on Martensitic Transformations



Dear Colleagues, 

We are pleased to announce that the International Conference on Martensitic Transformations ICOMAT 2025 will take place in Prague on September 7-12, and we would like to cordially invite you all to joint this event. Nearly 50 years after the first ICOMAT conference, which was hosted by Kobe, Japan, in May
1976, the alluring city of Prague with all its historic landmarks is looking forward to welcoming the continuously growing and flourishing ICOMAT community.

The conference will be held in ​OREA Hotel Pyramida Prague, situated within a comfortable walking distance from the Prague Castle, the Lesser Town, or the
Břevnov Monastery.  The conference venue is easily accessible from the airport as well as from the city center.

The conference program of ICOMAT 2025 will cover all branches of research in the field of martensitic transitions and phase-transforming materials, ranging from the latest theoretical, technological and characterization advancements to the state-of-art engineering applications, bringing together experts from all over the globe. The conference program will include six plenary talks by distinguished speakers, whose names will be announced in the second circular, and numerous invited talks, that will be selected from the submitted abstracts. The plenary and invited talks will be complemented by regular oral and poster
sessions, both with enough space for questions, comments and discussions.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Prague.

Oleg Heczko, Chairman
Petr Šittner, Hanuš Seiner, Vice-chairmen

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Prof. Francisca G. Caballero
Prof. Ms. Francisca G. Caballero is Research Professor at the Spanish National Centre for Metals Research (CENIM-CSIC) since 2018. She obtained her Ph.D. in Physics from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1999 for studying solid-solid phase transformations in steels during reheating. From 1997 to 2000, she worked as a research associate at the University of Cambridge in UK on the design of carbide-free bainitic steels. She has held a visiting scientist position at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge-TN-USA since 2004. Additionally, between 2013 and 2014 she has been the Deputy Director of Science at CENIM, and Vice-Rector for Postgraduate Studies and Research at Menendez Pelayo International University between 2014 and 2018. From 2018 to 2021 she has worked for Elsevier Inc as Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Materials: Metals and Alloys published in 2021. Prof. Caballero’s current research objective is to understand the relationship among the steel processing, its structure and its mechanical properties. In this regard, she investigates the transformation mechanisms, characterize the structure of the material from the micro to the nano-scale describing the physics and chemistry that govern the processes of transformation of steel and its properties under real conditions of use.
Francisca G. Caballero

Head of the Materalia Group,
CENIM-CSIC, ES

Sebastian Fähler

Group Leader
“Ferroic materials, films and devices” HZDR, DE

David Srolovitz

Dean of Engineering
University of Hong Kong, HK

Qingping  Sun

Director of
Center of Integrated Micro Systems, HKUST, HK

Hideki Hosoda

Vice director of Institute of Integrated Research,
ISCT, JP

Aaron Stebner

Associate Professor and Head
Stebner Lab, MSE – GATECH, US

Venue

​OREA Hotel Pyramida

Bělohorská 24
169 00 Praha 6 
Czech Republic

ICOMAT2025 organiser:

FZU – Institute of Physics of the CAS
Na Slovance 1999/2
182 00 Prague 8
Czech Republic

ICOMAT2025 Administrator: 

Splendid Production, s.r.o. 
Cíglerova 1082/16 
198 00  Prague 9 
Czech Republic
VAT No.: CZ24246719