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77th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry

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Sydney, Australia 6 to 11 September 2026 Electrochemistry for the New World
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Sydney, Australia – Electrochemistry for the New World

You are warmly invited to the 77th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry which will be held in Sydney, Australia from 6 to 11 September 2026.

Sydney is a vibrant multicultural city with extraordinary natural beauty with its deep water harbour set within a yellow sandstone basin, historic convict precincts, skyscapers designed by world renowned architects and stunning beaches with the weather to match. All this is closely integrated with the city centre where the meeting will be held. The meeting venue is the brand new International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney) situated on the water at the Darling Harbour restaurant precinct where Wildlife Zoo Sydney and the Sydney Aquarium are also located. Just a short walk or ferry ride away is the iconic Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge. Slightly further afield is the Botanic Gardens, harbour and ocean beaches, and national parks within the city including the hikers heaven of the Blue Mountains and Royal National Park (the world’s second National park). A little over an hours flight are other major cities including Melbourne and Adelaide – where satellite meetings are planned – and the Tasmanian World Heritage wilderness.

Sydney is a technology leader, being the 7th top digital city in the world, the home of major technology based companies such as the hearing implant pioneer Cochlear and the sleep company ResMed. Sydney also has the top ranked start-up ecosystem in the southern hemisphere. The conference is held within 6 km from three of the world’s top ranked universities with world leading programs in solar cell technology, quantum computing and medical technologies to ensure the local scientific community is keen to engage with our ISE visitors. We welcome to Sydney in 2026!

Darling Harbour, Sydney Photo James Horan

Venue and Location

The meeting will be held at the International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney), a new major conference center in Darling Harbour, Sydney Australia – https://iccsydney.com.au.
It is located in the city center directly on Sydney Harbour and is a restaurant and tourist precinct. Many hotels can be easily reached by a short walk. The conference centre is only a 10 minute walk from both Central and Townhall stations. There is also a huge car park at the conference center.

Exhibition Centre Externals and Precinct

Climate

The conference will be held during spring in Sydney with the temperature rather mild being between a typical minimum of 11°C at night and a maximum of 21°C during the day.

Transportation

Airport: Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD) is the largest international
hub of air traffic in Australia which is reached nonstop from the west coast of the Americas, Asia, Middle East and Africa and with one stop from Europe.
Sydney Airport connects to 43 international destinations and 46 domestic destinations. The airport is just 11 minutes from Central Station by train and 24 minutes by taxi.

Important Dates

  • Opening date for abstract submission: 1 December 2025
  • Opening date for registration: 10 March 2026
  • Deadline for abstract submission: 28 March 2026
  • Abstract submission ends: 28 May 2026
  • (All presenting authors of accepted abstracts are expected to register. Abstracts without a registered presenting author will be withdrawn from the event on 29 May 2026)
  • Conference begins: 6 September 2026

Organizing Committee

Justin Gooding (Sydney – Co-Chair)
Debbie Silvester-Dean (Perth – Co-Chair)
Zaiping Guo (Adelaide)
Nick Birbilis (Melbourne)
Ruth Knibbe (Brisbane)
Katharina Krischer (Munich)
Plamen Atanassov (Irvine)
Taek Dong Chung (Seoul)
Monica Santamaria (Palermo)
Francesca Soavi (Bologna)

Local Organizing Committee
Zaiping Guo (Adelaide)
Ruth Knibbe (Brisbane)
Kaye Kang (Sydney)
Cameron Bentley (Melbourne)
Saimon Silva (Melbourne)

Scientific Program

The scientific program offers Pleanary Lectures, Symposis, Tutorials related to the following fields of electrochemistry:

  • Electroanalytical chemistry
  • Electrocatalysis
  • Batteries
  • Fuel cells
  • Corrosion
  • Single entity electrochemistry (molecular, analytical, physical)
  • Scanning Probe Electrochemical Microscopy
  • Energy
  • Ammonia Synthesis
  • Hydrogen generation
  • Electrochemiluminescence
  • Photoelectrocatalysis
  • Minerals electrochemistry
  • Ionic liquid electrochemistry
  • Liquid/liquid electrochemistry
  • Solar cells
  • Microbial electrochemical systems
  • Electrochemistry for medicine/point of care
  • Devices/manufacturing
  • Wearables

Plenary Lecturers

Maria Forsyth, Deakin University, Australia. Maria Forsyth AM ATSE (Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering), FAA (Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences), is a visiting Professor and Deakin Distinguished Professor at Deakin University and an Ikerbasque Professorial Fellow at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. Professor Forsyth has worked at the forefront of energy materials research and has consistently made breakthrough discoveries in novel electrolytes. Her research has focused on understanding the phenomenon of charge transport within these materials and at metal/electrolyte interfaces present in all electrochemical applications. She has supervised over 100 PhD students and is a co-author of more than 880 journal and conference publications. Professor Forsyth is a director at TMPR Consulting and co-founder/director of DyNati Energie, a recent energy technology startup.

Shana Kelley, Northwestern University, USA. Dr. Shana Kelley is the President of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago and the Neena B. Schwartz Professor at Northwestern University in the Departments of Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics. The Kelley research group has pioneered new methods for tracking molecular and cellular analytes with unprecedented sensitivity. Dr. Kelley’s work has been recognized with the ACS Inorganic Nanoscience Award, the Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award, the Steacie Prize, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a Dreyfus New Faculty Award, and she was also named a “Top 100 Innovator” by MIT’s Technology Review. Kelley is also a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and the American Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Inventors. Her work is extensively cited, with over 80 papers cited more than 80 times. Kelley is an inventor on more than 50 patents issued worldwide. She is the founder of four life sciences companies: GeneOhm Sciences (acquired by Becton Dickinson in 2005), Xagenic Inc. (acquired by General Atomics in 2017), CTRL Therapeutics (founded in 2019), and Arma Biosciences (founded in 2021).

Yi-Tao Long, Nanjing University, China.
Yi-Tao Long is a Professor at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University. He earned a B.Sc. (1989) from Shangdong University and a Ph.D. (1998) from Nanjing University. After two years of postdoctoral study at Heidelberg University, he worked as a Research Associate at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Alberta in Canada, and as an Associate Specialist at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned to Nanjing University in 2019 after spending 12 years as a full professor at East China University of Science and Technology.
His main research focuses on electrochemistry at nanoconfinement, including nanopore electrochemistry for single-molecule analysis, nanospectroelectrochemistry for biointerphase studies, and nanoelectrochemical instruments for life sciences. Professor Long has published over 400 peer-reviewed scientific journal papers, 5 books or chapters, and 4 PCT patents. He has authored more than 400 articles in journals such as Nat. Nanotechnol., Nat. Chem., Nat. Protoc., Nat. Methods, and others, with over 20,000 citations and an H-index of 84. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Chemical Science and as a member of the editorial or advisory boards for Chemical Reviews, ChemElectroChem, Research, Theranostics, and Microchimica Acta. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the Chinese Chemical Society (CCS), and the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE). He was an honorary visiting professor at the University of Birmingham (2014-2020) and a visiting professor at the University of Bath (2011-2016). He received the CCS Liang Shuquan Award for Fundamental Research in Analytical Chemistry (2018) and the RSC Faraday Medal (2023). He serves on the RSC Faraday Council committee and has cochaired several RSC Faraday Discussions on Electrochemistry (2018, 2021, and 2024).

Beatriz Roldán Cuenya, Fritz Haber Institute, Germany.
Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya is currently the director of the Interface Science Department and interim director of the Inorganic Chemistry Department at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, Germany. She began her academic career by earning her MSc in Physics in Spain in 1998 and her PhD in Physics in Germany in 2001. Her postdoctoral research took her to the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. In 2004, she joined the Department of Physics at the University of Central Florida as an assistant professor and became a full professor in 2012. In 2013, she moved back to Germany and became a chair professor of Solid State Physics at Ruhr-University Bochum. She then joined the FHI in 2017.
Prof. Dr. Beatriz Roldan Cuenya has authored 250 peer-reviewed publications, six book chapters, and six patents. She has supervised 77 postdoctoral researchers and 37 PhD students. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Catalysis and Chemical Reviews. She is a member of the Academia Europaea and the Germany National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Recently, she received the ACES – Margarita Salas Award from the Association of Spanish Researchers in Sweden and the Margarita Salas Foundation. She was awarded the Manchot Research Professorship from TU Munich (2023), the 2022 Paul H. Emmet Award from the North American Catalysis Society, the Röntgen Medal (2022), the Faraday Medal from The Electrochemistry Division of the UK Royal Society of Chemistry (2022), the AVS Fellow Award (2021), and the International Society of Electrochemistry-Elsevier Prize for Experimental Electrochemistry (2021).

Jan Rossmeisl, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Jan Rossmeisl is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen. He joined the university in 2015 from a position as an associate professor at the Danish Technical University. Since 2020, he has been heading a Danish National Research Foundation, Center of Excellence, the Center for High Entropy Alloy Catalysis, and in 2024, he received an ERC synergy grant along with three others. Jan is coauthor of more than 250 papers and is listed among the Clarivate highly cited researchers. Jan Rossmeisl is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
His research focuses on how theory and simulations can provide real and valuable insights into electrochemical reactions. Jan has a close and integrated collaboration with experimentalists, sometimes in a supporting role and sometimes in a leading role. He was an early adopter of quantum mechanical simulations in electrocatalysis. He co-developed the computational hydrogen electrode in 2003, a method that includes the potential by referencing protons and electrons to hydrogen molecules. Despite its simplicity, it has become a staple in the field. His contributions extend to studying vital electrocatalytic systems, including the oxygen evolution reaction crucial for water electrolysis and oxygen reduction. His early papers on oxide catalysts and the universal picture of the reaction have set the benchmark for researchers in the field. Notably, Jan’s exploration of scaling relations in electrocatalysis has provided a lasting framework for understanding catalytic activity trends among different surfaces. This fundamental contribution helps calculate the efficiency limits of catalytic reactions. In 2020, Jan and co-workers won a Danish National Research Foundation center of excellence, the Center for High Entropy Alloy Catalysis, based on the idea of utilizing high entropy alloys as catalysts. High Entropy Alloys represent a paradigm shift in catalysis, yielding not only intriguing catalyst materials but also profound insights into catalysis.

Abstract Submission

Abstract submission opens on 1 December 2025.
Please return to this page after that date to submit your abstract.

Event registration for participants

Registration opens on 10 March 2026.
Please return to this page after that date to register.

Accommodation

Being a large city, Sydney has over 40,000 hotel rooms with all major hotel chains represented. AirBnB also operates extensively within Australia. Within a
10-minute walk of the Convention Centre are 43 hotels with 5 hotels directly within Darling Harbour including Novotel, Sofitel, a couple of boutique hotels and a hostel.

Summary of Symposia

Table of Contents

Symposium 1: Electrochemistry at the interface: From liquid-liquid to point-of-care devices

Sponsored by: Division 1: Analytical Electrochemistry

The symposium will focus on recent developments in electrochemical methods using biphasic systems, such as potentiometric ion-selective electrodes and polarised liquid-liquid interfaces, with applications in analytical, environmental, physical, pharmaceutical, and biomedical research. It will address current research, technological progress, and future challenges in the field. As electrochemistry at the polarised liquid-liquid interface is typically confined to the laboratory, we aim to incorporate single-use sensors and point-of-care devices, providing a platform for new ideas that bridge the two fields. While traditional electroanalytical methods continue to advance, there is an increasing demand for single-use sensors and point-of-care diagnostics that can function autonomously for extended periods with minimal sample handling and maintenance.

KEYWORDS: Electrochemistry at the liquid-liquid interface, ITIES, Ion transfer voltammetry • Biomembrane-mimic interfaces • Potentiometric ion-selective electrodes • Smart and low-cost sensors, 3D-printed sensors, sensor arrays, and wearable technologies • Electroanalysis for Point-of-Care Applications.

Symposium Organizers: Emilia Witkowska Nery, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland; Micheál D. Scanlon, University of Limerick, Ireland; Damien Arrigan, Curtin University, Australia; Yang Liu, James Cook University, Australia; Jeffrey Dick, Purdue University, USA.

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Symposium 2: Electrochemical biosensors: The new world technology

Sponsored by: Division 1: Analytical Electrochemistry & Division 2: Bioelectrochemistry

Biosensors utilise the superior recognition capabilities of biological systems and combine them with a wide range of physicochemical transducers to enable simple and user-friendly diagnostic systems for an increasingly diverse range of applications, enhancing our daily lives. The symposium focuses on the latest advances in electrochemical biosensors, aiming to provide practical solutions to the challenges of the modern world. From environmental analysis to healthcare, electrochemical biosensors can …

KEYWORDS: New biorecognition strategies in electrochemical detection • Nanomaterials, novel transducers, sustainable and affordable biosensors • Cell analysis and cancer-cell detection • Lab-on-a-chip, multiplexed and implantable devices • Biosensors for environmental, agro-food, security, forensic, and healthcare applications • AI and machine learning in biosensors • Translation and commercialisation of biosensors

Symposium Organizers: Saimon Moraes Silva, La Trobe University, Australia; Gabriel Negrão Meloni, University of São Paolo, Brazil; Felipe Conzuelo, Nova University Lisbon, Portugal; Ilaria Palchetti, University of Florence, Italy

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Symposium 3: Bioelectrochemistry: Scientific discoveries and applications

Sponsored by: Division 2: Bioelectrochemistry

This symposium explores a broad spectrum of bioelectrochemistry discoveries, ranging from fundamental research to impactful real-world applications, and pushes the boundaries of knowledge to foster sustainable futures for all. Understanding bioelectrochemical mechanisms, reactions, and processes is crucial for developing improved technologies and applications. Sitting at the intersection of multiple disciplines, bioelectrochemical technologies are set to play a key role in promoting healthy living for everyone, as well as supporting smart society initiatives such as chemical monitoring and analysis, environmental and waste remediation and valorisation, chemical transformations for energy production or creating added-value products, and the development of sustainable materials. Topics include, but are not limited to: Single biomolecule studies; In-vivo and in-situ bioelectrochemistry; Bioelectrochemistry of model systems that mimic in vivo environments; Microbial electrochemistry (general) and impacts on corrosion; Biofuel cells and bioenergetics; Bioelectrosynthesis for value-added products; Bioelectrochemistry principles: methods, models and approaches; Photobioelectrochemistry; Environmental bioelectrochemistry.

KEYWORDS: Biosensors • Bioelectrocatalysis • Bioelectrochemical transformations for value-added materials • In-vivo bioelectrochemistry • Microbial electrochemistry • Biomolecular electron transfer • Photobioelectrochemistry • Experimental and theoretical approaches in bioelectrochemistry • Sustainable futures.

Symposium Organizers: Dónal Leech, School of Biological & Chemical Sciences, University of Galway, Ireland; Janice Limson, Biotechnology Innovation Centre, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa; Yang Liu, James Cook University, Australia.

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Symposium 4: Understanding reaction mechanisms and degradation of electrocatalysts for Power-to-X

Sponsored by: Division 3: Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage, Division 2: Bioelectrochemistry & Division 4: Electrochemical Materials Science

Electrochemical technologies are crucial for producing highly valuable chemicals, including fuels and added-value compounds such as hydrocarbons, alcohols, and ammonia. Developing efficient (bio)electrocatalysts for these reactions is a complex process that involves design, synthesis, characterisation, and optimisation. In this context, both experimental and theoretical methods support the identification of promising materials and help understand the evolution and degradation of the synthesised electrocatalysts. This symposium will bring together academic and industrial researchers to share the latest advancements in electrocatalysis. Topics include, but are not limited to: Small molecules conversion (CO₂, urea, ammonia, nitrogen, etc.); Electrocatalytic hydrogenation (ECH); Electrocatalytic biomass conversion; Electrode processes and interfacial electrochemistry; Advanced modelling and diagnostics; Computational and Data-driven approaches to electrocatalysis; Understanding nanoscale phenomena in electrocatalysis.

KEYWORDS: Small molecules conversion (CO₂, urea, ammonia, nitrogen, etc.) • Electrocatalytic hydrogenation (ECH) • Electrocatalytic biomass conversion • Electrode processes and interfacial electrochemistry • Advanced modelling and diagnostics • Computational and Data-driven approaches to electrocatalysis • Understanding nanoscale phenomena in electrocatalysis

Symposium Organizers: Magda Titirici, Imperial College London, UK; Paolo Bollella, University of Bari, Italy; Fengwang Li, University of Sydney, Australia; Yu Katayama, Osaka University, Japan.

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Symposium 5: Aqueous-based batteries and high-power devices

Sponsored by: Division 3: Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage

This symposium will focus on the latest research related to energy storage systems based on aqueous electrolytes, as well as fast storage processes in both aqueous and organic electrolytes, and their application in real-world scenarios. Topics include, but are not limited to: Aqueous metal-ion batteries; Metal-air batteries; Capacitive and pseudocapacitive materials; Water-in salt electrolytes for energy storage devices; Electrode/electrolyte interface; In-situ and operando investigations; Redox flow …

KEYWORDS: Aqueous-based batteries • Metal-air batteries • Zn-ion batteries • Supercapacitors • High-power devices • Hybrid devices • Pseudocapacitive materials • Simulation/modelling.

Symposium Organizers: Yuki Yamada, Osaka University, Japan; Ho Seok Park, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea; Guoxiu Wang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia; Fabio La Mantia, University of Bremen, Germany.

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