REACT Conference

1st International Conference on

Responsible Electronics
and Circular Technologies "REACT"

11-12 November 2025
Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC), Glasgow

Exhibition

Opportunities for showcasing your

technology and research in the breaks and poster sessions are available.

Email react@gla.ac.uk

Registration (opens in late August)

Proceedings author*: £100

Delegate rate: £50

Student delegate: £30

*One author registration is required per paper.

Best Paper Prizes Sponsored by:

Open Access
Proceedings:

Join academic and industry experts as they showcase the state-of-the-art in sustainable ICT, from materials to systems, spanning from fundamental technologies to high-TRL solutions.

You can expect invited keynotes, industry collaboration pitches, panel discussions, and an exhibition from leading research groups.

Call for Papers: present your work to an inter-disciplinary audience and through open-access proceedings. We welcome oral and poster papers in all areas of sustainable and green electronics, including:

Degradable and low-waste electronic materials
Electronic packaging and PCB technologies for sustainability
Additive manufacturing in electronics
Advanced materials/metamaterials in sustainable electronics and photonics
E-waste recycling and material chemistry
Sustainable devices and systems in computing, wireless, and IoT applications.
Organic electronics and solution-processed devices
Sustainability in semiconductor materials & manufacturing
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of modern electronics
Emerging applications in healthcare, energy, and sensing
IoT and Digital Twin solutions for sustainability

Indexed Proceedings papers (3-4 pages) due after acceptance, and will be published in Engineering Proceedings. Extended work can be submitted to a Focus Issue, in IOP Sustainability Science and Technology.

Call for Papers Key Dates

Paper Abstract Submission Deadline: 29 June 2025 (23:00 BST)

Decisions to authors: 15 August 2025

Full Proceedings paper due: November 2025

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Submission to react@gla.ac.uk

Late-News Call for Papers - Deadline

Paper Abstract Submission Deadline: 27 July 2025 (23:00 BST)

Papers will go through the standard review process and will be published in the proceedings

Plenary Talk

"Computing after Carbon"

Professor Melissa Gregg

Sustainability Strategy Advisor, Meta Reality Labs

Professor of Digital Futures, University of Bristol

Melissa Gregg is an author, ethnographer and sustainability consultant focused on design and engineering initiatives to address climate change. Her research provides guidance on carbon emissions reduction, circular economy, nature-based thinking and Green UX. She is an advisor on sustainability strategy at Meta Reality Labs Research and Professor of Digital Futures at the University of Bristol. She is also active in land and bird conservation in her home state of lutruwita/Tasmania.

Plenary Talk

TBD

Professor Matt Boyle

Director of Electrification, NMIS; Chair, North East Automotive Alliance; Visiting Professor, Newcastle University, Professor of Practice, Strathclyde University

Professor Matt Boyle is an accomplished engineering leader and entrepreneur in the field of power electronics, machines and drives, which is critical to the widespread programme of electrification needed to meet net zero targets. He led the growth of a pioneering business in automotive electrification in the UK, Sevcon, until its acquisition by BorgWarner in 2017. Subsequently, he established and led the ‘Driving the Electric Revolution Challenge’ for UK Research and Innovation and continues to work with high-growth electrification businesses. In 2018 Matt was awarded an OBE for his contribution to engineering and skills.

Invited Speakers
More speakers to be added soon

Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Leicester

Andrew Abbott

Professor Andrew Abbott, FRSC, interests are firmly based around green chemistry, with a particular emphasis on material processing. Active in developing novel solvent systems with industrial applications such as metal deposition and dissolution, Professor Abbott also collaborates strongly with industry.

Professor Abbott is currently a partner in the Faraday Institution project ReLiB recycling lithium ion batteries where his research and work has been instrumental in a new process for delaminating battery materials with Birmingham University. This is currently being scaled up for use at battery manufacturing plants around the UK.

Talk: TBC - WEEE Recycling Focus

Professor of Chemical Engineering, University College London (UCL)

Panagiota Angeli

Prof Panagiota Angeli, FIChemE, is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL, Deputy Head ED&I, and leads the ThAMeS Multiphase group. She obtained a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and a PhD on Multiphase Flows at Imperial College London, UK. Prof Angeli’s work has been supported by substantial UK Research Council and European Union grants and by industry. She has been awarded a RAEng/Leverhulme Trust Fellowship, and has participated and chaired UK EPSRC and international (Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Belgium) research funding review panels. She co-chairs the Multiphase Flows Special Interest Group of the EPSRC funded UK Fluids Network and has published over 250 journal papers.

Talk: Digitally-enabled metals recycling for circular economies

Head of Packaging, CSA Catapult;

Visiting Professor, University of Bristol and University of Strathclyde.

Jayakrishnan Chandrappan

Dr Jayakrishnan Chandrappan is a recognised expert in semiconductor material engineering and has held leadership and technology roles at organizations including Global Foundries Inc. (US), the Institute of Microelectronics (IME) at A*STAR Singapore, and the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology in India.

A co-founder of two startups, he has been awarded Europe’s prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship and the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Emerging Technology Showcase Award.

He serves as an external advisory board member for the University of Bristol and the University of Leeds, UK and is a Board of Studies member at Cochin University of Science & Technology (CUSAT) in India.

Talk: Advanced Packaging in Photonics/Electronics (Details TBC)

Senior Policy Researcher Global Chip Dynamics, interface

Julia Hess

Julia Hess is Senior Policy Researcher for "Global Chip Dynamics". Her focus is on the strategic relevance of semiconductors for Europe and the analysis of the global, interdependent value chain - factoring in both its high ecological footprint and dynamic geopolitical realities. Recently, Julia presented her work at the New York Climate Week and to the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy in the European Parliament.

Julia has been working at interface since 2019, initially conducting research at the intersection of AI and foreign policy with a focus on AI governance. In 2021, she was a fellow at the Gesellschaft für Informatik's AI Camp.

She studied media culture and sociology at the University of Cologne and completed her master's degree in social and business communication at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Talk: Updates on the Global Semiconductor Emission Explorer

President, European Institute of Printed Circuits; Strategist, JIVA Materials

Alun Morgan

Alun is a materials scientist who started his career at the Institute of Physics’ Fulmer Research Institute. After serving as Technical Manager of a leading UK PCB manufacturer he joined the PCB materials industry with the Isola Group and in a 40-year international career has had operational/engineering responsibility for many PCB materials manufacturing sites in Europe, USA and Asia along with product and business roles.

Alun is the President of the European Institute of Printed Circuits (EIPC), the UK PCB Materials expert serving on IEC TC91 WG4 Industrial Standards Committee and a Member of Underwriters Laboratories Standards Technical Committee. He is Tech Ambassador for Ventec International Group, a global PCB materials science company and Product Strategist for Jiva Materials, inventor of the world’s first fully recyclable PCB.

Talk: Printed Circuit (PCB) Materials, market dynamics and the route to sustainability

Manager, Green ICT @ FMD;

Fraunhofer IUK-TECHNOLOGIE

Manuel Thesen

Dr. Manuel Thesen studied Technical Chemistry with a focus on Polymer Chemistry at the Technical University of Nuremberg. He worked for 3 years as a research associate at the Fraunhofer IAP in Potsdam in the 'Polymers and Electronics' department on semiconducting polymers in OFETs, OLEDs and OPVs, followed by a PhD in Colloid and Polymer Chemistry of the University of Potsdam in collaboration with Fraunhofer IAP on the topic of semiconducting terpolymers in OLEDs. He worked for 11 years as a division manager micro resist technology GmbH. Since 2022, he has been working for the Research Fab Microelectronics Germany (FMD) and is primarily responsible for the project 'Green ICT @ FMD'.

Talk: Success models from the Competence Center for Resource-Conscious Information and Comm. Technology, Green ICT @ FMD

REACT Conference

Responsible Electronics and Circular Technologies "REACT"

11-12 November 2025 Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC), Glasgow

Best Paper Prizes Sponsored by:

Open Access Proceedings:

Plenary Talk

Plenary Talk

Invited Speakers More speakers to be added soon

Responsible Electronics
and Circular Technologies "REACT"

11-12 November 2025
Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC), Glasgow

Open Access
Proceedings:

Invited Speakers
More speakers to be added soon