Sharing science, celebrating the Institute: an outstanding ELI-Day 2025

The 2025 edition of ELI-Day took place on May 27. And it was a great success.

Many researchers presented their work during a twenty-minute talk. Over 35 posters were also presented.

It was a great opportunity for all ELI scientists to present their research topics to other members of the institute, and to share knowledge and ideas.

The young scientists were accompanied by academics or senior scientists, who were present as chairpersons, keeping an eye on the time and moderating the debates at the end of the presentations.

The work presented was extremely varied, covering a wide range of disciplines in the earth and life sciences.

We are very pleased to host such a diversity of expertise within the Institute, in areas such as hydrology, food safety, citizen science, or climate modelling for instance.

Alongside the exceptional work of its members, the institute was also thrilled to welcome a prestigious guest: Tim Palmer. 

He gave a talk entitled "A CERN for climate change", arguing that to understand climate change at the regional scale (and hence to understand the regional impacts of climate change), we must develop a new generation of more accurate climate models, arguably with much higher resolution than we have today.

Between sessions, there were more informal moments for discussion. An opportunity to share ideas or have a drink with colleagues. 

The discussions during ELI-Day also provided an opportunity for networking: a chance to discover tools and platforms that can be useful in several areas of research.

Alongside ELI-Day, a competition was also organised to reward the best talk and the best poster. 

Congratulations to Baptiste Delhez, who won the prize for best talk, with his presentation "Near-real-time tropical forest loss monitoring with Sentinel-1 data: from threshold-based to deep learning detection". Congratulations to Bruno Gonzalez Nobrega, who won the prize for best poster, entitled "Subnational mapping of food flows in the Brazilian food system". 

And of course big congratulations to all the researchers for their commitment.

Thank you to everyone who took part in this fabulous day. And a special thanks to the ACELI for its impeccable organisation.

The photo album of the 2025 ELI-Day edition is now available here. We recommend that you download the photos you are interested in to your computer, as the OneDrive photo viewer is of lower quality than the internal photo viewer on computers. 

You want to know more about the ELI-Day? Find information about the last edition here.

Article & photos: Emmeline Van den Bosch