Eight of our PhD students had the opportunity to attend this year’s Graphene Conference 2025 in San Sebastián – Europe’s leading event in the field of graphene and 2D materials.

The conference brings together top researchers, early-career scientists, and industry professionals from around the world to present and discuss the latest advances in research, technology, and applications of 2D materials.

Our group contributed with exciting presentations and posters, and took full advantage of the chance to engage in scientific exchange and connect with the international 2D materials community.

Leon Daniel: Mechanism of Oleic Acid-Mediated Sulfur Vacancy Healing in monolayer WS2 (Talk)

Yasaman Jarrahi Zadeh: Microscopic, Optical, and Electrical Characterization of Graphene Films Fabricated from Graphene Dispersion (Poster)

Umut Kaya: Graphene growth on different sapphire crystal planes: A combined low-temperature PECVD and DFT study (Talk)

Jochen Konieczny: Mixed-Flake 2D Heterostructures via Langmuir Deposition for Tunable Optoelectronic Thin Films (Poster)

Marko Kriegel Competing Processes as a Quality Limitation: New Insights into Microscopic Growth Mechanisms of Single-Layer Hexagonal Boron Nitride on Ir(111) (Poster)

Ornel Padilla: Understanding graphene inception and growth by investigating early stage particle formation (Talk)

Dedi Sutarma: Understanding the Role of Defects in WS2 layer in contact with ZnO substrate (Talk)

Jun Wang: Towards Quantifying Defect Density in Molybdenum Disulfide via Optical Emission Spectroscopy (Poster)