From May 25–29, 2026, FAIRmat will participate in the annual Spring Meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) at the Strasbourg Convention Centre in France. The Spring Meeting & Exhibit is a major international forum in materials science, featuring 24 parallel symposia with invited speakers, oral and poster presentations, and a plenary session to discuss recent advances in both fundamental research and technological applications.

This year’s exhibition will run from May 26–28, bringing together around 80 international exhibitors showcasing equipment, software, publications, and services of interest to the materials community. Visit us at booth no. 35 to learn more about FAIR data principles and the NOMAD infrastructure, connect with our team, and explore opportunities for collaboration.

FAIRmat will also contribute to the scientific program. Members of our team will participate in Symposium E – Data-based methods and AI for the development and processing of advanced materials, where our spokesperson Claudia Draxl will chair Session E13: Method IV / Experimental workflows.

If you are attending, you can also join the following FAIRmat-related talks:

• From FAIR Data to FAIR Models: Machine Learning Workflows Integrated with Research Data Infrastructures by Hampus Näsström
• NOMAD – a Platform for Accelerating Materials Research by Claudia Draxl

For the third time, FAIRmat is taking part in the Long Night of the Sciences! Join us on June 6 in Berlin-Adlershof, where we'll be presenting our work alongside colleagues from the Center for the Science of Materials Berlin (CSMB).

Get behind-the-scenes access to our research center and explore interactive activities at the FAIRmat booth. Discover what FAIR and digital research data management really mean – learn through play and see how working with data can be as fun as building with LEGO!

You can find us at CSMB, Zum Großen Windkanal 2, 12489 Berlin from 17:00.

Check out our event listing for more details, and visit the LNdW website for the full program and to purchase tickets.

We are happy to announce the workshop on use cases in NFDI, presented by Physical Sciences in NFDI (PSinNFDI).

While different challenges can arise for research data management in different disciplines, FAIR and standardized data are always of great importance. Similar approaches and solutions can be shared and adapted across domains.

This workshop will showcase selected use cases from the physical sciences that demonstrate how FAIR principles can be effectively implemented in practice. The session will highlight innovative tools, software solutions, and services that support sustainable and standardized research data management with fascinating use cases from:

• Dr. Lukas Pielsticker (FAIRmat) – Standardization of experimental data using NeXus
• Dr. Hubert Simma (PUNCH4NFDI) – FAIR data for lattice gauge theory and beyond
• Dr. Alexander Sommer-Behr (NFDI4Cat) – KGLit4Cat: Automated, ontology-based creation of knowledge graphs from literature with NLP

We are pleased to announce the eighth FAIRmat Users Meeting, which will take place at the Center for the Science of Materials Berlin (CSMB) on June 16–17, 2026.

The FAIRmat Users Meeting brings together scientists and data stewards in physics, chemistry, and materials science interested in practical research data management (RDM) and FAIR data practices using NOMAD.

The program will feature an overview of recent FAIRmat developments and new NOMAD features, followed by hands-on sessions focused on practical RDM implementation. The first day will conclude with the Users-Meet-Developers exhibit, an open forum to present your work, exchange ideas, and interact directly with NOMAD developers.

On the second day, NOMAD users will share their experiences and best practices for managing, sharing, and analyzing research data using the NOMAD ecosystem.

Full event information is available on our website.

The entire FAIRmat team gathers twice a year for the internal FAIRmat Project Meeting to focus on project updates, strategic planning, collaboration opportunities, and discussions on future directions.

The final Project Meeting of FAIRmat’s first funding period will take place from June 17 to 19, 2026, at our headquarters in Berlin.