5th TACO PhD 2026

The fifth iteration of the TACO PhD Meeting will be held from April 8 to 10 in Reichenau/Rax at the Gasthof Flackl.

The SOC of the TACO PhD Meeting, consisting of Faith Lewis (P04), Susanne Gross (P08), and Tobias Dickbreder (P12), invited the following keynote speakers:

  • Andrea Auer, University of Innsbruck
  • Sara Blomberg, Lund University
  • Rachael Farber, University of Kansas
  • Bernhard R. Reischl, University of Helsinki
  • Erin Iski, University of Tulsa
  • Zbigniew Sojka, Jagiellonian University Krakow

Program

A PDF of the program can be downloaded here.

Contributed Posters

Gustavo Alves (P10)
CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol Enabled by a MoS2-Support Interaction

Silvio Bellomi (P10)
Low-Temperature Alcohol Oxidation in Cobalt-Based Catalysis: Transient Acetate Blocking and Redox States

Florian Buchner (P09)
Evolutionary Search for Pt Clusters on α-Fe2O3(1-102)

Florian Dörr (P02)
Cu2O: The Bad and the Ugly

Susanne Gross (P08)
Structural Evolution of La-Co Mixed Oxides: A Surface Science Study

Alice Kern (P04)
Surface Structure of Cu₂O(110)

Alex Kortstee (P07)
Machine-Learning Force Fields for Predicting the Raman Spectrum of KTaO3

David Kugler (P04)
Atomically Resolved Imaging of the Gypsum (010) Surface

Luca Leoni (P07)
Study of Polaron Dynamics in TiO2 using the LEOPOLD Potential

Sita Schönbauer
Using QNEP and Δ-Learning to include Long-Range Forces for Coupled Cluster Level Lattice Dynamics

Parinya Tangpakonsab (P08)
Partial Oxidation of Methane on the Active Pd–PdO Interface

Adam Vavrecka (P04)
Altering Chemistry with Light-Matter Interactions: Computational Approaches to Polaritonic and Plasmonic Catalysis

Ralf Wanzenböck (P09)
Finest Tuning: Minimal Data Adaptation of Foundation Models for Complex Oxide Surfaces

Sophie Zeilinger (P11)
Mechanistic Studies of Aldol Condensation & Hydrogenation at Catalytic Oxide Interfaces using SFG Spectroscopy

Moritz Zelenka (P11)
Lord of the Oxides: The two (or more) Hydroxyls

A PDF list of the posters can be downloaded here.