Professor Stuart Irvine is the Symposium organiser for Symposium E1.1 “Materials for Energy” of EUROMAT 2015, Warsaw, Poland 20-24 September 2015. He will attend the EUROMAT conference which has been held every two years since 1989, and which have an increased record of bringing together up to 2000 researchers, scientists, trainees, and students from both academia and industry to discuss critical developments and perspectives in the field of materials science and technology and their applications.