Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee, it is my great pleasure to invite you to join us at the 20th Israel Materials Engineering Conference (IMEC2025), to be held at the Haifa Congress Center on February 25–26, 2025. This internationally recognized conference is part of an ongoing series that begun in 1981. It is the central conference for the materials community in Israel, combining fundamental and applied research. The persistent growth in the number of IMEC attendees over the years reflects an increased prominence of materials-related research in the Israeli academic landscape. IMEC brings together academia, research institutes, industry, investors, non-government organizations, and government representatives to exchange information, consolidate joint research programs, and discuss commercial endeavors and future opportunities.
The conference will cover both classical Materials Engineering topics and recent breakthroughs in the field, including nanomaterials, quantum materials, two-dimensional materials, materials for energy storage and conversion, materials-related issues in additive manufacturing, materials for theranostics in medicine, among others.
We hope that the wide range of materials-related topics covered by the conference will attract broad interdisciplinary audience, including engineers, chemists and physicists, professionals in life sciences and medicine, archeologists, and more. This event will provide a suitable platform for disseminating research results and facilitating the synergistic exchange of ideas. The plenary and invited talks will be given by internationally renowned scholars and we will make the utmost effort to attract distinguished guest speakers from abroad. A special symposium on Physical Metallurgy, honoring the late Prof. Elazar Gutmanas will feature invited lectures from his colleagues and former students.
The commercial exhibition will showcase the latest equipment, materials, and services available in Israel. To encourage the attendance of early-career researchers, we decided to subsidize the registration fee for students. Exhibitors and Sponsors are invited to contact me or the conference secretariat in order to learn more about possible contributions to the conference.
We invite you to join us in this important scientific event and hope to have the honor of welcoming you to IMEC2025.
Sincerely yours,
Eugen Rabkin
Chairman
erabkin@technion.ac.il
Alejandro Sosnik and Elad Koren
Local Organizing Committee
