European Coatings Symposium 2027

Title: About Drying, Diffusion &  Interdiffusion in Multicomponent Films

Bio: Wilhelm Schabel (KIT) is professor of Thin Film Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His doctoral thesis about Film Drying was awarded with the Carl Freudenberg Prize (Univ. Karlsruhe, 2005) and he early received the Arnold-Eucken (VDI-GVC, 2007) and the Scriven Young Investigator Award (ISCST, 2008). In 2007 he worked in the R&D department for film and coating applications in industry at Lonza Foils in Basel (CH). In 2009, he was appointed to the first professorship in Thin Film Technology in Germany, funded within the KIT Elite Concept I together with BASF, BAYER, and ROCHE (3 Mio Euro). In 2014 he declined a full Professorship (W3) offer from the new Excellence University TU Dresden, and continued his research career at KIT. Schabel received many international most prestigious awards in the  field of Drying & Coating Science.

Title: Skin formation during the drying of polymer solutions

Bio: Laurence Talini is a senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). Her recent work explores transfer phenomena and interfacial flows in situations where they are driven by small-scale physico-chemical properties. She conducts her research at the Surface du Verre et Interfaces laboratory, a joint unit between CNRS and Saint-Gobain, where the scientific questions she addresses are often linked to industrial issues.

Title: Cracking in Drying Colloidal Films

Bio: Mahesh S Tirumkudulu is the Larsen & Toubro Chair Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in Mumbai. He obtained his Bachelor's in Technology degree from IIT Madras in 1995 and his PhD from the City University of New York, USA, in 2001. He joined IIT Bombay in 2003 after working at Princeton University as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Prof Tirumkudulu works in the area of fluid mechanics and colloids & interfaces with a focus on research problems  related to paints & coatings, atomization
with applications to combustion and sprays, and Biomedical devices. He is the co-founder of Rheoheme Pvt Ltd, a company that specialises in biomedical devices.