The upcoming SARC Annual Meeting will take place on June 3-4, 2026, Högberga Gård, Lidingö. It will be a lunch-to-lunch event.
Programme
June 3 |
|
| 10:00-12:00 | Steering Committee and Advisory Board meeting |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-13:15 | Welcome & SARC presentation Tomas Grönstedt, Anna Öhrwall Rönnbäck, Ardeshir Hanifi, Svjetlana Stekovic (SARC Management) |
| 13:15-13:30 | Innovair/NRIA/NFFP8 Yvonne Rosmark (Innovair) |
| 13:30-13:50 | Excellence Clusters HYPER-X Prof. Christer Fureby (TH) FLUX Prof. Dan Henningson (KTH) |
| 13:50-14:00 | Short break |
| 14:00-14:10 | Swedish Space Research School (SSRS) Prof. Anna Öhrwall Rönnbäck (LTU) |
| 14:10-14:30 | Autonomous drone swarms (SSF) Mariusz Wzorek (LiU) |
| 14:30-14:50 | SAES (Student Aeronautical Event Sweden) 2026 Martin Stjernkvist (Chalmers), Marcin Kryger (Chalmers), Hicham Benkhalfa (KTH), Niklas Westberg (KTH), Mohamd Amar Chms Aldden (LTU) |
| 14:50-15:00 | Promo – UTES2026 Symposium (Unmanned Technologies for Earth and Space) Patxi Acero (Chalmers) |
| 15:00:15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30-15:50 | Systems-Based Learning and Knowledge Exchange in Aerospace Design Engineering Prof. Timos Kipouros (University of Cambridge) |
| 15:50-16:10 | Digital Aircraft Design for Collaborative Research – Scaling Innovation via a Swedish Platform? Prof. Björn Nagel (DLR) |
| 16:10-16:30 | Challenges in Aerospace Innovation: A view from Portugal Prof. Joana Mendonça (Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon) |
| 16:30-17:15 | PhD student presentations Performance and NOx emission characteristics of intercooled composite cycle aero engines, Adam Johansson (Chalmers) Microstructure Evolution and Analysis of L-PBF Alloy 718: Implications for Gas-Turbine Hot-Section Components Rana Elsayed (LiU) Damaged and Repaired Blade Modelling with In-Situ Experiments Carlo Rotundo (KTH) |
| 18:00-19:30 | Mingle |
| 19.30 | Dinner |
June 4 |
|
| 09:00-09:20 | Thermal Management in Emerging Propulsion Architectures: Opportunities and Design Challenges Prof. Carlos Xisto (Chalmers) |
| 09:20-09:40 | Recent advances in detonation combustion, towards an M250-C40B hydrogen demonstrator Prof. Guillermo Paniagua (Purdue University) |
| 09:40-10:00 | Higher technical competence within the Swedish Armed Forces Christina Ahremark (FM /Swedish Airforce) |
| 10:00-10:20 | The Technical Leadership Challenge in Aerospace Programs: Balancing Mr Brownfield and Mrs Greenfield in Complex Systems Development Johanna Wallén Axehill (Saab Aeronautics) |
| 10:20-10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45-11:15 | PhD Student presentations Which Orbit, Sweden? – Design for Spacecraft Reuse Bernd Weiss (LTU) Alternative jet fuels combustion in aeronautical chambers: a Large-Eddy Simulation approach Pierre Vauquelin (LTH) |
| 11:15-11:35 | Educating Future Aerospace Engineers Through Collaboration: The SARC Conceptual Aircraft Design Course Prof. Petter Krus ( LiU) |
| 11:35:11:55 | Aeronautical Research in Germany: Career Opportunities and Collaboration Pathways Prof. Ingo Staack (Braunschweig University) |
| 11:55-12:10 | Closing notes (Feedback from Advisory board) Prof. Chris Atkin (Univ. East Anglia) |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch |
Download the programme from here.
Registration
Registration is closed!