Focus on automation and artificial intelligence
Automation and AI are the current focus topics that the PARTEC Scientific Advisory Board has reformulated for 2025. "A lot of research is currently being carried out in these areas and new applications are also being developed," says Chairman Professor Lutz Mädler, explaining the decision. "New communities are emerging here that we want to network with." His institute at the University of Bremen - the Department of Mechanical Process Engineering - is also taking part in the congress, with topics including particle synthesis, particle formulation, multiphase processes and material data. "An important topic will be the German Research Foundation's priority program on heteroaggregation, which we are coordinating here in Bremen," adds Mädler.
"Personally, I am hoping for new impetus for my own research," says the Chairman with a view to PARTEC 2025. The physicist and process engineer is particularly eager to find answers to the question of how innovation and efficiency can be further increased in the face of limited resources - and in this context, what influence AI will have on particle simulation in the future. With a view to future topics, the congress therefore also specifically addresses young scientists. "We all urgently need them for our community," warns Mädler.
Particles Empowering Tomorrow: Innovations for our Global World - this is the motto that Mädler and the scientific advisory board have chosen for PARTEC 2025. It expresses: Particles come first. And they are important building blocks, both today and on the way to a sustainable future. Particles are essential for future processes, whether it's energy, recycling, value creation or new production technologies.
Scientific exchange across national borders
"I believe in a global world and hope that PARTEC will also reflect this," says Mädler, referring to the international nature of the congress. In 2023, participants from 25 countries traveled to Nuremberg to attend the latest edition of PARTEC - a figure that is traditionally high. Professor Arno Kwade will also be back in 2025. As Head of the Institute of Particle Technology at TU Braunschweig, Kwade was Chairman of PARTEC 2023. "In recent years, PARTEC has always proven its ability to present cutting-edge international research from all areas of particle technology, from basic to industrial application research," says Mädler's predecessor about the congress. He also expects many contributions next year that will showcase the latest innovations in process technology, analytics and products and answer exciting research questions, particularly in terms of sustainability.
Kwade is not traveling to Nuremberg alone, but together with other representatives of the Institute for Particle Technology, which he heads. "We will once again be submitting numerous presentations and posters for 2025 in order to once again contribute to the success of PARTEC from our side," says Kwade. Different main topics of the conference will be addressed according to the six research areas. "This includes, for example, contributions from the field of pharmaceutical process engineering on ring layer granulation or the filling behavior of industrial rotary tablet presses. Without a precise understanding of such processes, it is hardly possible to optimize them in a targeted manner, which is essential in view of the high quality requirements for medicines while demand continues to rise," explains the scientist.
