Women in Renewable Energy and Sustainability (WiRES) 2026

Conference Chair: Zakya H. Kafafi, Lehigh University (United States)

Conference Co-Chairs: Ana Claudia Arias, University of California at Berkeley (United States) and Anna Maria Pappa, Khalifa University (United Arab Emirates).

Local Conference Chair: Ana Flavia Noguiera, University of Campina (Brazil)

Confirmed Invited and Plenary Speakers

• Maria Antonietta Loi (University of Groningen), The Netherlands
• Natalie Banerji (University of Bern), Switzerland
• Dimitra Georgiadou (Southampton University), United Kingdom
• Giovana Machado (Center for Strategic Technologies of the Northeast, CETENE), Brazil
• Kyriaki Polychronopoulou (Khalifa University), United Arab Emirates
• Selina Olthof (University Wuppertal), Germany
• Roisin Owens (Cambridge University), United Kingdom
• Natalie Stingelin (Georgia Tech), USA
• Susana Torresi (University of São Paulo), Brazil
• Luisa Torsi (University of Bari), Italy
• Daniela Zanchet (UNICAMP), Brazil

In celebration of Women in Renewable Energy and Sustainability, the Sixth Conference on Women in Renewable Energy and Sustainability (WiRES) will be held on July 21-22, 2026, (1.5-day event) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and will be part of the 27th International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Electronic Materials (ICSM 2026) which will be taking place the week of July 19-24, 2026. This Call for Papers is open to all applicants, men and women, who are interested in submitting abstracts for poster presentations that cover the latest research findings from the last few years. The theme of this conference will be on key trends in renewable energy and sustainability research. Focus will center on novel concepts, materials, devices, and architectures for renewable energy as well as for advancing sustainability through topics such as circular economy principles, green manufacturing, green materials, recycling and upcycling approaches to reduce the environmental footprint of emerging technologies, with transformative future global utilization. The scope will cover, but is not limited to, the following general areas:

• Conversion of solar light into electricity, thermal energy, chemical energy and fuel generation
• Energy storage including batteries and capacitors
• Fuel cells, ferroic materials (piezo, ferro, flexo)
• Thermoelectrics – materials, methods, and devices
• Circular economy aspects of renewable energy-harvesting and storage platforms
• Sustainable devices and novel applications (e.g. self-powered devices, wearables and sensors)
• Green synthesis, processing, manufacturing, green materials, recycling and upcycling approaches
• Sustainable electronics (Flexible & Printed electronics, recyclable electronics, sustainable bioelectronics)
• Sustainable electronic material solutions for interfacing with biology
• Energy-Efficient Computing and Edge Devices
• The role of artificial intelligence in accelerating material development and enabling technologies