The SFB 1313 is organising a three-day lunch-to-lunch "Salt Workshop" from 7 to 9 October 2026 at the University of Stuttgart. More details and the program will be published as soon as possible.
This three-day workshop will be a great opportunity to exchange ideas in the field of salt precipitation/dissolution and biomineralisation in porous media. On the basis of salt research within the SFB 1313, the goal of the workshop is to discuss together with international experts in this field current challenges and the possible theoretical, experimental and numerical approaches to tackle them.
Event: SFB 1313 Salt Workshop
Dates: 7 to 9 October 2026
Venue: Tagungszentrum Gültstein GmbH, Schlossstraße 31, 71083 Herrenberg
Contact person: Samaneh Vahid Dastjerdi
Program
| Invited Speakers | Institution | Talk |
| Uri Nachshon | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) | "Soil Salinization and Remediation: Scaling Salt Dynamics from Pore Network Properties to Field Observations" |
| Milad Aminzadeh | TUHH (Germany) | tba |
| Bo Guo | University of Arizona (USA) | "Direct observation of the interplay between evaporation and salt precipitation in a free-flow/porous-media microfluidic system" |
| Aroua Mannai | LMHE–ENIT–UTM (Tunisia) | “Physico-chemical and mechanical study of building weathering processes due to salts crystallization: experimental investigations and modeling. Real- field application to the ruins of the Antoninus Baths in Carthage, Tunisia” |
| Hans van Duijn | TU Eindhofen (The Netherlands) | "Maas (2007) problem revisited: Rigorous derivation and extension of the elliptical interface between fresh recharge water and upward seeping saline water" |
| Carina Bringedal | Western Norway University of Applied Science (Norway) | "Linear stability analysis of evaporation-driven density instabilities" |
| Alexander Schlaich et al. | TUHH (Germany) | tba |
| Vahid Niasar | University of Manchester (United Kingdom) | “Kinetics of salt precipitation in and growth in porous media during CO2 injection”. |
| Antoine Naillon | Université Grenoble Alpes (France) | "Salt precipitation in model porous media : from nucleation to the growth of subflorescence" |
| Ronny Kürsteiner | ETH Zürich (Switzerland) | “Salt-Enabled Functional Design of Wood-Based Materials” |
| Robin Gerlach | Montana State University (USA) | tba |
| Patrick Huber | TUHH (Germany) | "Spontaneous Imbibition of Salt Solutions in Nanoporous Media" |
| Kevin Paine | University of Bath (United Kingdom) | “Biomineralisation by non‑ureolytic bacteria in infrastructure materials: From self‑healing concrete to microfluidic insights” |
Call for participation
The SFB 1313 team is offering four doctoral students the opportunity to present a poster during the workshop.
For applying, send your title and abstract vis e-mail to Samaneh Vahid Dastjerdi until 30 August 2026.
Samaneh Vahid Dastjerdi
Dr.-Ing.Postdoctoral Researcher, Management, Project MGK, Central Project Z, Research Project Z02