Organizer

Prof. Luisa F. Cabeza and the GREiA research team at the University of Lleida (Spain)

The most recent trends in such areas as novel storage materials, advanced storage concepts and configurations, TES for renewable energy systems, TES in buildings and industry, use of advanced techniques such as artificial intelligence in TES, and social, environmental, and educational aspects.

Keynotes

Fabrizia Giordano: "Toward a Taxonomy of TES Materials Databases: Insights from the IEA ES TCP Task 48 Thermal Materials Database and AIT slPCMlib"

Fabrizia Giordano is a Research Engineer at the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Vienna. She holds a B.Sc. in Energy Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin and a M.Sc. in Engineering in Sustainable Energy with a specialization in Energy Savings from the Technical University of Denmark.

Her research focuses on the development of sustainable thermal energy systems for the decarbonization of the building sector, with particular emphasis on thermal energy storage technologies, namely sensible and latent heat storage, and their integration with heat pumps.

Prior to joining AIT, she worked at Fraunhofer ISE on the fabrication, characterization, and testing of phase change emulsion (PCME) systems. She is an active contributor to the IEA Energy Storage TCP Task 48, where she supports the development and expansion of the "Thermal Materials Database", designed to deliver high-quality, standards-compliant thermophysical data for PCMs, sorption materials, and TCMs.

In addition, she is curating the numerical database "solid-liquid phase change materials library slPCMlib" from AIT.

Daniel Carbonell: "Grid flexible thermal energy storage for process heat"

Daniel Carbonell is a thermo‑mechanical engineer trained at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), where he also obtained his master's degree and PhD in thermal engineering.

After four years working at a UPC spin‑off, he joined the Institute for Solar Technology SPF, from the University of Applied Sciences in Eastern Switzerland (OST), one of Europe's leading centers in solar thermal energy. There, he led a research team specializing in thermal energy storage and in the integration, modeling, and optimization of renewable‑energy‑based systems.

After 12 years as a researcher at SPF, he returned to Barcelona to found DCarbo Energy Consulting, with the vision of driving the decarbonization of industrial heating and cooling processes through renewable solutions and thermal storage, covering a wide temperature range—from 0 °C to 1000 °C.

More information about the program on the event website.

Participant Information

Registration & fees

Registration

The registration fee includes the attendance to the conference, coffee breaks, three lunches, and two dinners. Each registration allows the submission of two extended abstracts.

The registration includes both conference dinners (13-14 May 2026)
Optional dinner on Tuesday, 12 May 2026 (cost: 40 €).

Type of registration 

• Early registration fee* (until 30 March 2026) 
• Normal fee (from 31 March 2026 to 3 May 2026)

Fees

• Regular *750 € / 900 €
• Student *430 € / 550 €
• Accompanying person 180 €

The online register will be closed on 3 May 2026. If you need to register later please contact directly fundacio@udl.cat

Fabrizia Giordano
E-Mail: fabrizia.giordano@ait.ac.at