The latest in Artificial Intelligence applied to Advanced Materials is presented in Donostia

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already transforming many areas of knowledge, although experts agree that the real revolution is yet to come. To address the challenges and opportunities posed by AI in the identification of new materials with advanced properties, the Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Materials (AI4AM2025) conference is kicking off today in Donostia/San Sebastian. Over 200 participants from industry and research centres from across the world are gathering for two days at the Kursaal to discuss the latest advances and applications in this emerging field.

The inauguration of the AI4AM2025 conference was attended by Amaia Esquisabel, the Basque Government’s Director of Science Policy, who highlighted the connection of this meeting with the IKUR strategy. “The Basque Government had the vision to commit to supercomputing and artificial intelligence as one of the areas of its IKUR 2030 strategy. One of the priority areas of this strategy is precisely advanced materials, and hosting a meeting of this kind in the Basque Country is proof of our privileged position in this field,” said Amaia Esquisabel.

In this respect, the director of the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and co-organiser of the conference Ricardo Díez-Muiño, stressed that “at the DIPC we are promoting several lines of research into advanced materials and we can see how AI has the potential to generate advances that were previously unimaginable. Identifying new materials with the right properties for a specific application was like looking for a needle in a haystack, but with AI we will be able to speed up that process to surprising levels,” said Díez-Muiño.

The AI4AM2025 is the second edition of this international conference —the first was in Barcelona— which congregates representatives of industry and scientific research centres that use AI to achieve revolutionary advances in materials science and engineering. This discussion forum provides an opportunity to delve deeper into the latest innovations, to discuss practical challenges and to share solutions in specific applications in electronics, composite materials, energy, (bio)medicine, quantum computing and related fields.

The conference is being organised by the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), the Institute for Intelligent Functional Materials of Singapore, the Constructor University of Germany and the Phantoms Foundation.

Further information about the conference is available in English at https://ai4am.net/2025/index.php