AI4Cat: Artificial intelligence for Catalysis Summer School
7-10 September 2026
Lisbon, Portugal

Learn about the programme

Day​

Schedule​

Module​

Speaker/ Trainer​

Track-record​

Background​

Country​

Mo​n, 7th

9h00-9h30​

Welcome​

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9h30-12h30​

Data and Databases (B1)​

Pedro Mendes​

Professor. Expert in catalysis informatics​

Academic​

Portugal​

14h00-17h30​

Exploratory Data Analysis (B2)​

Bárbara Sequeira​

PhD at IST. Expert on applied ML​

Academic​

Tue​, 8th

9h00-12h30​

Machine Learning Models (B3)​

Victor Costa​

Project leader at IFPEn. ​

Data scientist.

PhD in heterogeneous catalysis​

Industrial​

France​

14h00-17h30​

Machine Learning Models (B3)​

Victor Costa​

Wed​, 9th

9h00-10h30​

Data mining & Large-language models (B4)​

Daniel Costa

PhD at IST. Expert on LLMs​

Academic

Portugal​

11h00-12h30​

The future of AI (B4)​

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14h00-17h30​

Social activity​

Thur​, 10th

9h00-11h00​

AI for catalyst discovery

10h30-12h30​

​AI for mechanistic insights

14h00-15h30​

AI for reaction control

This 1st edition of AI4Cat Summer School builds upon the postgraduate course Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Engineering: Basics, currently in its 4th edition at Técnico. All modules marked with B take place simultaneously with the postgraduate course.