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Future Asphalt Symposium 2025

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Future Asphalt Symposium 2025

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2nd International Future Asphalt Symposium
Meet us in Ludwigshafen on November 4 - 5, 2025

Thank You for Joining the 2nd International Future Asphalt Symposium

We sincerely thank all participants – especially our speakers – for making the 2nd International Future Asphalt Symposium in Ludwigshafen a truly successful, constructive, and forward-looking event.

Your contributions turned the symposium into a vibrant platform for exchange and inspiration. It clearly demonstrated: the asphalt industry holds tremendous innovation potential, and the next generation is ready to help shape it. But unlocking this potential requires courage, structure, and collaboration.

The recommendations developed during the event offer a  roadmap for turning ideas into action. What matters now is shared responsibility – across research, industry, authorities, and each individual.

Let’s take the next step and begin forming innovation communities, as Maren Urner so compellingly proposed.

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Yours sincerely, 

Mario Šandor
Head of Business Management Asphalt Performance EMEA
BASF SE, Germany

Impressions of 2nd Future Asphalt Symposium 2025

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Presentations and Lectures

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Research Insights on "Mechanical Response of Styrene-Butadiene-Rubber Modified Bitumen for Sustainable Pavement in Tropical Regions"

 
Adesola Olayide Afolabi, Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja
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Research Insights on
"The chemomechanical paradigm of lignin and waste cooking oil towards greener asphalt roads"


 

Danai Kalama, University of Antwerp, Belgium
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Research Insights on "Accelerated laboratory simulation of field aging for paving binders using hydrogen peroxide and UV light: UV-Peroxide Aging (UPA)"

 
Sadaf Khalighi, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 
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Research Insights on
"Improving Bitumen Analysis with ATR-FTIR: The Role of Refractive Index in Quantification Studies"

 

Lucas Mortier, TU Vienna, Austria
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Research Insights on "Mechanism of Action of Surfactant-Based Additives in Warm Mix Asphalt Technology"

 



Salvatore Procopio, University of Calabria, Italy 
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Research Insights on "Technology Concept for Bio-Asphalt Mixtures"

 






Stefan Trifunovic, TU Braunschweig, Germany 
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Our Speakers

Get to know our exciting speakers here.

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Adesola Olayide Afolabi
Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute, Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria 
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Danai Kalama
University of Antwerp, Belgium
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Lucas Mortier
Institute of Materials Chemistry, TU Vienna, Austria 
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Prof. Dr. Maren Urner
FH Münster, Germany 
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Marianna Evenstein
Moderation 2nd International Future Asphalt Symposium
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Dr. Robert Heger
Vice President, Business Management Dispersions EMEA for Construction & Architectural Coatings
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Salvatore Procopio
University of Calabria, Italy
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Sadaf Khalighi
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
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Stefan Trifunovic
Institute for Road Engineering, TU Braunschweig, Germany 
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