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CRYSPOM 2025

The crystallization in porous media is found in a large number of natural and industrial processes and it occurs involving a wide variety of materials.

The CRYSPOM 2025 workshop will give the opportunity to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the processes of precipitation and dissolution of crystals in porous media, as well as their consequences and final applications. These include, for instance, the damage induced by crystal growth to natural and artificial materials, or the use of crystallization for the manufacturing of new elements. The workshop will join together participants from different disciplines, such as geosciences, geoengineering, geology, physics, chemistry, geochemistry, mechanics, building materials, construction engineering, civil works, conservation, Heritage, bioengineering, medical and pharmaceutics.

One of the main objectives of the workshop is to promote practical and scientific discussions between researchers, practitioners and PhD students. It will allow to share experiences and advances in theoretical, numerical and experimental developments.

The biannual international workshop on Crystallization in Porous Media (CRYSPOM) has a long-standing tradition. Prof. Noushine Shahidzadeh founded the workshop in 2008 in Paris, and subsequent editions were celebrated in Brienz (Switzerland, 2010), Tróia (Portugal, 2012), Amsterdam (The Netherlands, 2014), Toulouse (France, 2016), Hamburg (Germany, 2018), Pau (France, 2021) and Ghent (Belgium, 2023). The next edition will be held in Barcelona (Spain) from September 17th to 19th, 2025. In the forthcoming Barcelona edition, an effort has been made to add some new additional topics of interest in the field of crystallization.

Topics covered (but not limited to)

  • Fundamentals of salt and ice crystallization in porous or confined media
  • Imaging of crystallization in porous media
  • Coupled problems involving crystallization
  • Crystal growth in energy applications
  • Damage mechanisms induced by crystallization
  • Preventive and protective treatments against salt weathering
  • Crystal growth in concrete and other construction materials
  • Crystallization in geology
  • Crystallization in civil works
  • Crystallization in Heritage monuments and buildings and Arts
  • Applications of crystallization to bio-engineering
  • Crystallization in medical applications

Organising committee

  • Eduardo Alonso (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC, Spain)
  • Anna Ramon (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC, Spain)

Scientific committee

  • Noushine Shahidzadeh (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
  • Esperança Tauler (Universitat de Barcelona - UB, Spain)
  • Encarnación Ruiz (Universidad de Granada - UGR, Spain)
  • Miriam Martín (CEDEX, Spain)
  • Hannelore Derluyn (CNRS, France)
  • Rosa Espinosa-Marzal (University of Illinois, USA)
  • Teresa Diaz-Goncalves (Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil - LNEC, Portugal)
  • Marc Prat (Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse - IMFT, France)
  • Barbara Lubelli (Delft University of Technology - TU Delft, the Netherlands)
  • Michael Steiger (Universität Hamburg - UHH, Germany)
  • Veerle Cnudde (UGhent, Belgium)

Key dates

  • June 25th: Abstract submission deadline
  • June 28th: Notification of acceptance
  • June 30th: Early-bird registration ends
  • September 12th: Registration ends
  • September 17-19th: CRYSPOM 2025 in Barcelona

Registration fees

Registrations paid before June 30th will benefit from early-bird fees.

General fee
  • Early-bird: 325€
  • Standard: 375€
Student fee
  • Early-bird: 225€
  • Standard: 275€

The registration fee includes coffee breaks, on-site lunches, the workshop dinner and social activities, and will not be reimbursed.

Gallery

Gypsum crystal growth in a rock crack
Gypsum crystal growth in a rock crack
Gypsum crystal growth in a rock crack (close-up)
Gypsum crystal growth in a rock crack (close-up)
Growth of gypsum crystals on the surface of a rock discontinuity
Growth of gypsum crystals on the surface of a rock discontinuity
SEM photograph of thaumasite and ettringite crystals in a cement treated compacted soil affected by sulphate attack
SEM photograph of thaumasite and ettringite crystals in a cement treated compacted soil affected by sulphate attack
Fractured clay matrix surrounded by grey idiomorphic gypsum crystals, geometric in form (long prismatic crystals) and showing white anhydrite inclusions
Courtesy of Dr. Esperança Tauler (UB): Fractured clay matrix surrounded by grey idiomorphic gypsum crystals, geometric in form (long prismatic crystals) and showing white anhydrite inclusions.

Contact & location

Barcelona School of Civil Engineering

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Campus Diagonal Nord
Building C2.
C. Jordi Girona, 1-3
E-08034 Barcelona

Please contact cryspom.2025@event.upc.edu for further information.

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The workshop has benefited from the financial support given by the grant PID2021-122733OB-I00 funded by the Spanish MCIN/AEI/10. 13039/ 50110 0011033 and by “ERDF (FEDER), EU.