Droplets 2025 Proceedings & Programme

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference.

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Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 2nd Sept 2025, 07:19:27pm CEST

 
 
Session Overview
Date: Tuesday, 01/July/2025
8:00am
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9:30am
Registration & Welcome coffee
Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus)
9:30am
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9:45am
Opening Speech
Location: Room 604
Chair: Stéphane Dorbolo, ULiège, Belgium
Opening speech by the Conference Chairs — Prof. Stéphane Dorbolo (ULiège), Prof. Tristan Gilet (ULiège), and Prof. Benoit Scheid (ULB) — followed by a welcome address from Prof. Pierre Duysinx, Vice-Rector for International Relations and Mobility at ULiège
9:45am
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10:30am
Plenary Speech by Emmanuel Villermaux
Location: Room 604
Chair: Benoit Scheid, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Fragmentation with, and without mechanism: Are principles enough?
10:30am
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11:15am
Plenary Speech by Petra S. Dittrich
Location: Room 604
Chair: Benoit Scheid, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Droplets-on-a-plate: High-throughput creation, analyses and applications
11:15am
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12:00pm
Poster Pitches Session 1
Location: Room 604
Chair: Benoit Scheid, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
12:00pm
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1:30pm
Lunch
Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus)
Poster Session 1
Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus) +R.52 + R.53
 
1:30pm
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2:00pm
Keynote Speech by Dominique Legendre
Location: Room 604
Chair: Jacco Snoeijer, University of Twente, Netherlands, The
Droplet lift force peak due to internal 3D flow bifurcation
Keynote Speech by Djamel Lakehal
Location: Room 304
Chair: Elise Lorenceau, CNRS et Université Grenoble Alpes, France
Computational droplet dynamics and heat transfer: from microfluidics and MedTech applications to large-scale energy systems
Keynote Speech by Catherine Barentin
Location: Room 204
Chair: David John Fairhurst, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Wetting of complex fluids
2:00pm
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3:30pm
Oral Session 1 | Droplet Manipulation I
Location: Room 604
Chair: Jacco Snoeijer, University of Twente, Netherlands, The
Oral Session 2 | Leidenfrost
Location: Room 304
Chair: Elise Lorenceau, CNRS et Université Grenoble Alpes, France
Oral Session 3 | Emulsions
Location: Room 204
Chair: David John Fairhurst, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
3:30pm
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4:00pm
Coffee Break
Location: B4 Europe Main Hall (Pas Perdus)
4:00pm
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6:00pm
Oral Session 4 | Droplet Manipulation II
Location: Room 604
Chair: Philippe Bourrianne, ESPCI Paris, France
Oral Session 5 | Wetting I
Location: Room 304
Chair: Burak Eral, TU Delft, Netherlands, The
Oral Session 6 | Coalescence & Break-up I
Location: Room 204
Chair: Suzie Protiere, CNRS - Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert, France
6:00pm
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7:30pm
Welcome Reception
Location: B4 outside place (level -1)