TNNN's 5th annual conference

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The TNNN Conference 2026 will be held 6-8 May in Trondheim. The conference will mainly take place at the campus of Gløshaugen. 

The conference will begin with lunch on Wednesday, May 6, and will end on Friday, May 8, after lunch.

Registration

Sign up for the conference here

Program  

• Invited speakers (see the confirmed invited speakers below)
• Industry presentations
• Lab visits
• Workshops
• Poster session at Lager 11
• Conference dinner at Rockheim Panorama
• And more! 

Accomodation

We have reserved a limited number of rooms at hotel Scandic Lerkendal in Trondheim. 

TNNN will cover the hotel accommodation for PhD members from outside of Trondheim for the two nights during the conference. 

Conference fee

TNNN will also cover the conference fee for PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers who are members of the TNNN Research School.

For other participants, the conference fee will be approximately 2000 NOK (exact amount will be known when the registration opens). Payment link will be sent by email after you have registered.

Confirmed invited speakers

Prof. Dr. Dr. Twan Lammers 

Nanomedicine and drug delivery

Twan Lammers obtained a D.Sc. in Radiation Oncology from Heidelberg University in 2008 and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Technology from UtrechtUniversity in 2009. In the same year, he started the Nanomedicine and Theranostics group at RWTH Aachen University. In 2014, he was promoted to full professor of medicine at RWTH Aachen University Clinic. His group aims to individualize and improve disease treatment by combining drug targeting with imaging. To this end, image-guided (theranostic) drug delivery systems are being developed, as well as materials and methods to monitor tumor growth, angiogenesis, inflammation, fibrosis and metastasis. He has received multiple scholarships and awards, including ERC starting, consolidator and proof-of-concept grants, the CRS Young Investigator Award, the Adritelf International Award, the Belgian Society for Pharmaceu-tical Sciences International Award, and the JNB Trailblazer Award. He has served on the council of the European Society for Molecular Imaging for 10 years and was the president of the Controlled Release Society in 2023-2024. He is a member of the editorial board of 10 journals, and acts as associate editor for JCR, DDTR and MIB. Since 2019, he is included in the Clarivate Analytics list of Highly Cited Researchers.

Prof. Anja Boisen

Technical University of Denmark

Anja Boisen is head of section and professor at the Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark. Her research group focuses on the development and application of nano-sensors, energy harvesting in the body, and ingestible devices for sensing, sampling, and delivery. Anja is a cofounder of several companies and is, among others, a member of the board of the Leo Foundation, the Danish Academy of the Technical Sciences, and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences. She has been awarded the largest research prize in Denmark, the Villum Kann Rasmussen Award, and the Order of Dannebrog by Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jani Kotakoski

University of Vienna

Jani Kotakoski is one of the pioneers in the field of atomic-scale structural manipulation of low-dimensional materials. His research combines electron and ion irradiation, in the context of experimental materials physics, atomic-resolution transmission electron microscopy, and computational physics. Since obtaining his PhD at the University of Helsinki in Finland in 2007, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Germany and Finland, before joining the University of Vienna in Austria in 2011, where he is a full professor since 2022. His current main research aim is creating atomically tailored structures embedded in solid-state matrices to pave the way for the second quantum revolution, and green energy production and storage.

Prof. Balpreet S. Ahluwalia

UiT, The Arctic University of Norway

Balpreet S. Ahluwalia is Professor at the Department of Physics and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Professor-II at the Department of Physics, University of Oslo Norway. He is also affiliated as a Researcher at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Karolinska Institute in Sweden.  Ahluwalia has a PhD in Electrical Engineering (Photonics) in 2007 from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Ahluwalia's cross-disciplinary research group develops multi-modality microscopy and spectroscopy platform and translates its impact in life sciences. Ahluwalia is inventor of several patents, co-founder of university spin-off and has published over 100+ peer-reviewed scientific articles and receipts of several EU/RCN funded projects including several ERC/EIC competitive grants.

Assoc. Prof. Mattias Borg

Lund University of Sweden

received a M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Lund University in 2007, and a Ph.D. in Physics from the same institution in 2012. Between 2012 and 2016, he was with IBM Research – Zürich, as a post-doctoral researcher and then as permanent Research Staff Member, where he invented “template-assisted selective epitaxy” (TASE) a novel approach to III-V nanostructure integration with Si technology. He now leads a research group at Lund University while maintaining ties to industry research - as part-time Master Researcher at Ericsson Research 2022-2024 and founder of the deep-tech start-up Redgrove in 2025. His research focuses on one hand on neuromorphic technology, based on ferroelectric materials, memristor devices and their systems integration. Secondly, he continues to explore monolithic three-dimensional integration of III-V optoelectronic devices into the Si CMOS back-end using selective epitaxy methods.