LCN 20th Anniversary Symposium & Celebration
Event details
Event date:
September 9, 2026
Event time:
9:30 am
Join us as we celebrate 20 years of discovery, innovation and collaboration at the London Centre for Nanotechnology.
The LCN brings together researchers from King’s College London, UCL and Imperial College London to tackle major challenges in healthcare, sustainability and transformative technologies.
Over the past two decades, LCN researchers have helped advance discoveries that improve lives, support greener futures and drive innovation.
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This special anniversary symposium will bring together researchers, students, alumni, industry partners, policymakers, supporters and members of the wider community for a day of talks, discussion and celebration.
The programme will explore how nanoscience and nanotechnology are helping to address some of society’s biggest challenges through three themes:
- Healthcare: Life Matter Interface
- Planet Care: Sustainable Futures
- ICT & Quantum: Transforming Technologies
Alongside research talks and panel discussions, the event will showcase the people, partnerships and discoveries that have shaped LCN over the last 20 years, while looking ahead to the opportunities and challenges of the decades to come. The day will conclude with an anniversary drinks reception.
| 09.30-10:00 | Registration, coffee | |
| 10:00-10:20 | Welcome from the LCN Directors & 20 Years of LCN | |
| Theme 1: Healthcare – Life matter interface |
Professor Guillaume Charras – UCL – Probing the strength of molecular interactions linking cells in living tissues | |
| 10:20-11:20 | Professor Alexandra Porter – Imperial College London – Subcellular imaging of healthy and unhealthy interactions of nanoparticles with mitochondria | |
| Professor Maya Thanou – King’s and Apeikon Therapeutics – Activatable nanoparticles | ||
| 11:20-11:40 | Coffee break | |
| 11:40-12:40 | Theme 2: Planet Care – Sutainable future |
Professor Milo Shaffer – Imperial College London & Solena Materials |
| 12:40-13:40 | Lunch, posters and anniversary displays | |
| 13:40-14:40 | Theme 3: ICT & Quantum – Transforming Technologies |
Professor James Millen – King’s – A Levitated Computer: Analogue simulation levitated microparticles |
| Professor John Morton – UCL and Quantum Motion – Could modern silicon ICs provide a complete platform for quantum computing | ||
| 14:40-15:00 | Coffee break | |
| 15:00-15:45 | LCN Alumni: 20 Years of People and Careers | |
| 15:45-16:15 | The Next 20 Years of LCN | |
| 16:15-16:30 | Closing remarks | |
| 16:30-18:30 | Anniversary drinks reception and celebration |