Keynote Speakers

Renowned experts from academia and industry will share their latest insights and research findings in keynote lectures throughout the ICAA 20 conference. Covering a broad spectrum of topics relevant to aluminum alloys – from fundamental materials science to advanced processing and emerging technologies – these talks will provide valuable perspectives and set the stage for in-depth discussions across the scientific program.

  • Prof.

    Mark Easton

    RMIT University, AU

    “Crossing the manufacturing spectrum with Al alloys”

  • Prof.

    Randi Holmestad

    Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NO

    Hardening precipitates in aluminium alloys studied by advanced TEM

  • Dr.

    Helmut Kaufmann

    AMAG Austria Metall AG, AT

    Technological and regulatory challenges for the aluminium recycling industry

  • Prof. Dr.

    Dierk Raabe

    Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials, DE

    “Artificial Intelligence as a Gateway towards Advanced Metallurgy and Alloy Design”

  • Dr.

    Timothy Warner

    Constellium, FR

    Reducing the aluminium transformation industry’s carbon footprint: priorities, recent progress and current scientific and technological challenges

  • Giulia Forgnone

    European Aluminium

    “Aluminium Action Plan”

Highlight Speakers

  • Dr.-Ing.

    Hanka Becker

    Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, DE

    Options for microstructural design of intermetallic phases in Fe-containing secondary Al-Si alloys

  • Alcoa Distinguished Prof.

    Christopher Hutchinson

    Monash University, AU

    Precipitate nucleation in Al alloys

  • Prof. Dr.-Ing.

    Benjamin Klusemann

    Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, DE

    “t.b.a.”

  • Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.

    Ernst Kozeschnik

    TU Wien, AT

    “Thermal and athermal nucleation of clusters in highly supersaturated alloys”

  • Dr.

    Johannes Österreicher

    AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, AT

    “Calorimetry without calorimeters: Whole-furnace calorimetry reveals phase transformations in aluminium alloys”

  • Asst Prof.

    Mami Mihara-Narita

    Nagoya Institute of Technology, JP

    “Quench Sensitivity of Al-Zn-Mg Alloys: Characteristic age-hardening and precipitation behavior after slow cooling”

ICAA 20 in 2026
13 - 17 September 2026 | Hybrid Conference in Berlin (Germany) & Online

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