Welcome to SMC 2026

The 2nd Workshop on Soft Matter will take place at the Bellairs Research Institute - a McGill University Facility located in Barbados, from May 3-8, 2026.


The goal of this meeting, which builds off a previous workshop on the Galapagos Islands, is to bring together a small group of leading experts in research areas across the field of Soft Matter to present their latest findings and to engage in lively discussions.

Conference Organizers

Frank Alexis - Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Matthew J. Harrington - McGill University

Alejandro Marangoni - University of Guelph

Raffaele Mezzenga - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (ETHZ)

Ali Miserez - Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

Conference Speakers

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Speaker Institution
Alejandro Acevedo Fani
Massey University
Tosh Chilkoti
Duke University
Maya Davidovich Pinhas
Technion
Patricia Dankers
Eindhoven University of Technology
Juan De Pablo
New York University (NYU)
Leila Deravi
Northeastern University
Zvonimir Dogic
University of Califorinia, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Laura Fabris
Polytechnic University of Turin
Peter Fratzl
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Tony Guiseppi-Eli
Chapman University
Niels Holten-Andersen
Lehigh University
Sebastien Lecommandoux
University of Bordeaux
Enzo Martinelli
University of Salerno
Gareth McKinley
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Pierangelo Metrangolo
Politecnico di Milano
Phil Messersmith
University of California, Berkeley
Javier Montenegro
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Monica Olveira de la Cruz
Northwestern University
Adam Quotb
National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse
Anna Rising
Karolinska Institutet
Patrick Ruehs
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich (ETHZ)
Elke Scholten
Wageningen University
Hanadi Sleiman
McGill University
Francesco Stellacci
Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL)
Regine von Klitzing
TU Darmstadt
Carsten Werner
Leibniz Institue of Polymer Research
Yin Yang
University of Nevada, Reno
Lam Yeng Ming
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Bruno Zappone
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche