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The Functional Molecular Photoswitches for Energy Storage and Beyond conference was held in Barcelona, Spain, from 23 to 26 April 2024. This conference discussed the latest developments in photoswitches for various applications (sensors, synthetic anion transport, among others) with a focus on energy storage.

Established and emerging researchers were invited to present their work for this conference through oral and poster presentations. In fact, 51 oral presentations (15 invited and 36 contributed), half of them by young researchers:

• Holger Bettinger (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, DE)
• Jonathon Beves (University of New South Wales, AU)
• Aisha Bismillah (Univesrity of York, UK)
• Luciano Boesel (Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, CH)
• Franco Castro (Universidad de la República - Facultad de Química, UR)
• Léa Chocron (ENS Paris-Saclay, PPSM Laboratory, FR)
• Chloé Courdurié (Institut des Sciences Moléculaires - UMR5255 CNRS - Université de Bordeaux, FR)
• Mathias Dowds (University of Copenhagen, DK)
• Yiyu Feng (Tianjin University, CN)
• Matthew Fuchter (Imperial College London, UK)
• Verena Gortz (Lancaster University, UK)
• Monika Gupta ( Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, IN)
• Grace Han (Brandeis University, US)
• Zhiyu Hu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CN
• Beatrice E. Jones (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Jörg Libuda (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE)
• Marcin Lindner (Institute of Organic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, PL)
• Franziska Lissel (IPF Dresden, DE)
• Dominik Lungerich (Institute for Basic Science, KOR)
• Dario Maggiolo (Chalmers University of Technology, SE)
• Kurt Mikkelsen (University of Kopenhagen, DK)
• Francesca Moresco (TU Dresden, DE)
• Michael Pittelkow (University of Copenhagen, DK)
• Arii Primägi (Tampere University, FIN)
• Claudio Roscini (Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, ES)
• Diego Sampedro (University of La Rioja, ES)
• Robin Schulte (University of Siegen, DE)
• David Siniscalco (Institut des Molécules et Matériaux du Mans, BEL)
• Anne Staubitz (Universität Kiel, DE)
• Irene Vettori (CFM - Materials Physics Center, ES)
• Marc Vilabona Pedemonte (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ES)
• Chaoxia Wang (Jiangnan University, CN)
• Zhihang Wang (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Hermann Wegner (Justus Liebig University, DE)
• Xingtang Xu (Taiyuan University of Technology, CN)
• Wiebke Zika (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE)

In addition, 61 poster presentations were given during the four days of the event. This edition was attended by 131 participants from 19 countries in Europe, Asia and America.

This conference was organised by members of Kasper Moth-Poulsen's research group with funding from three research projects (MOST - European Union's Horizon 2020 Framework Programme Grant Agreement No. 951801; ForMOST - German Research Foundation (DFG) - Project Number 496207555; and ESIM - European Innovation Council (EIC) Grant Agreement No. 101046364), two publishers (RSC and Elsevier) and two companies (Vapourtec and Buchi).

Industry representatives from various fields were also present at the event and ESiM consortium members seized the chance to discuss their future project outcomes with them.