SIMS Europe 2025

The next SIMS Europe Conference will take place from 7 to 9 September 2025 at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. 

We look forward to welcoming you to Giessen in September for a fruitful and lively scientific exchange at SIMS Europe 2025! 

Your local organising committee

Anja Henss, Manuela Kilian, Michael Dürr and Marcus Rohnke

Answers to frequently asked questions can be found below.

Registration 
All speakers and poster presenters must be registered. Please register as soon as possible, if you have not done yet! On-site-registration is in general not excluded but not welcome for organizational reasons. If you registered for the reduced student fee, please bring a documentation with you that you can present at the registration desk (student ID, letter of supervisor, etc.). 

Welcome Reception 
Everyone is welcome to attend the welcome reception in the Chemistry Building on Sunday evening from 5:30 p.m. There will be free food, drinks and live music. Spend a lovely evening with us. 

Conference Food 
The conference fee includes food and drinks during the conference. Food will be served in the form of buffets. These will also include vegetarian and vegan options. If you have any further dietary restrictions, please contact sims-europe@uni-giessen.de at least one week in advance. We will then try to find a solution with the caterer, but we may not be able to offer something for every special case. 

SIMS School – For Registered Participants 
The SIMS School will take place on Sunday, 7 September, exclusively for registered attendees. Lunch will be provided for school participants at the venue. 

Dynamic SIMS Session – Open to All Participants 
In parallel to the SIMS school there will be two talks given by Jan Leitner (MPIC, Germany) and Carina Gill (LSA, UK) introducing Dynamic SIMS and highlighting two important applications. These are free of charge for all participants and available without further registration. This event will take place before the welcome reception at 4 p.m. in Lecture Hall C1. 

Oral presentations 
You can bring your own PC. We will provide you with HDMI and USB-C connectivity. There also windows conference PCs available with newest Powerpoint 365 version. Please copy your file to the conference PC during the break before the session at the latest and check it. Please make sure that your talk meets time restrictions: 

Normal contribution: 12 min. talk + 3 min. discussion 
Keynote lectures: 25 min. talk + 5 min. discussion 
Plenary lectures: 40 min. talk + 10 min. discussion 

Poster presentations 
The poster format is DIN A0 in portrait style. We will provide pins for fixation. The poster session will take place on Monday 5 p.m. Please mount your poster already during the lunch break or the afternoon coffee break. The poster session takes place in the physics lecture hall building. We will have to groups for presentation. Even numbers: 5-6 p.m., odd numbers: 7-8 p.m. 
All posters will hang the whole time. There will be an evaluation for the best posters in different categories for junior researchers. Attractive poster prizes will be awarded during the closing ceremony.   

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