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Welcome to MolMod 2026

The Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University invites you to the 11th edition of MolMod – Molecular Modeling in Chemistry and Biochemistry -, to take place in Cluj-Napoca, from Thursday 18th to Saturday 20th of June 2026.
The conference covers theoretical methods (molecular mechanics and quantum methods) as applied in organic, organometallic and coordination chemistry, structure and bonding, biochemistry, bioinorganic chemistry.
This year MolMOD 2026 will be a satellite to
https://isqbp2026.com/
Location – INSPIRE platform and the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering 11, Arany Janos str, Cluj-Napoca
MolMOD 2026 is listed to ccl.net

Scientific Committee
Paul G. MEZEY, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, University of Budapest, Hungary and Babes-Bolyai University
Radu SILAGHI-DUMITRESCU, Babes-Bolyai University
Alexandru LUPAN, Babes-Bolyai University
Gabriela NEMEȘ, Babes-Bolyai University
Dragos HORVATH, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
Valera VERYAZOV, Lund University, Sweden
Henning HENSCHEL, Uppsala University, Sweden
Ionel HUMELNICU, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania
Ramona CURPAN, “Coriolan Drăgulescu” Institute of Chemistry of the Romanian Academy, Timișoara, Romania
Vlad COJOCARU, Babes-Bolyai University
Organizing Committee
Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu, Chairman
Paul G. Mezey, Co-Chairman
Alexandru Lupan – secretary
Vlad Cojocaru
Raluca Septelean
Dan Porumb
Amr. A.A. Attia
Adrian Branzanic
Maria Lehene
Raul Cosma
Theodor Danescu

Registration
In order to register please fill the Registration form and send to alexandru.lupan@ubbcluj.ro.

Abstract submission
Please use the provided template and send your abstract to alexandru.lupan@ubbcluj.ro by June 5th, 2026.
Available types of presentation are Keynote presentations (30 minutes including Q&A), Oral presentations (15 minutes including Q&A), and Posters.

Fees and payment
The registration fee for Academics is 150 EUR (or 750 RON if payed directly in local currency) and covers conference materials, coffee breaks and the conference dinner. It does not cover accomodation.
For accompanying persons the registration fee is 50 EUR (or 250 RON if payed directly in local currency).
Undergraduate students are not required to pay a registration fee (free).

Paul G. Mezey, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Felix Plasser, Loughborough University, United Kingdom

Jean-Didier Marechal, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

Ionuț Trancă, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

Valera Veryazov, Lund University, Sweden

Paul Nicu, Babes-Bolyai University

Luca de Vico, University of Siena, Italy

Dumitru-Claudiu Sergentu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania

Ramona Curpăn, Coriolan Dragulescu Institute of Chemistry, Timisoara, Romania

Erik Donovan Hedegård, University of Southern Denmark, Odense

Dragos Horvath, University of Strasbourg, France

Vlad Cojocaru, Babes-Bolyai University

Joaquin Barroso-Flores, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Hanoch Senderowitz, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Octav Căldăraru, Zealand Pharma, Copenhagen, Denmark

The program is subject to modification at any time, with or without notice.
We kindly invite you to check the program on a regular basis.

Conference program

18.06.2026
14:00-15:30

Registration and welcome

18.06.2026
15:30-15:45

Gabriela Nemes, Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu, Paul G. Mezey, Vlad Cojocaru

Opening remarks

18.06.2026
15:45-16:30

Paul G. Mezey (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)

TBA

18.06.2026
16:30-18:00

16.30-17.00 Paul Nicu (Provitam Foundation and UBB, Romania)
The Digital Chiroscope — Beyond AI: Exploring Structural (Un)Certainty in Molecular Spectroscopy Through Nonlinear Multi-Spectroscopic Inverse Problems

17.00-17.30 Ramona Curpăn (Coriolan Drăgulescu Institute of Chemistry, Romania)
TBA

17.30-18.00 Valera Veryazov (Lund University, Sweden)
The Mystery of High Oxidation States in Bioinorganic Chemistry

19.06.2026
09.00-10.30

09.00-09.30 Vlad Cojocaru (UBB)
TBA

09.30-10.00 Jean-Didier Maréchal (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)
TBA

10.00-10.30 Felix Plasser (Loughborough University, UK)
TBA

19.06.2026
10.30-11.00

Coffee break and posters

19.06.2026
11.00-13.00

11.00-11.30 Dumitru-Claudiu Sergentu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania)
TBA

11:30 – 12:00 Erik Donovan Hedegård (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
TBA

12:00 – 12:30 Luca De Vico (Siena University, Italy)
TBA

12:30 – 13:00 Dragos Horvath (University of Strasbourg, France)
TBA

19.06.2026
13.00-14.30

Lunch

19.06.2026
14.30-16.00

14.30-15.00 Joaquín Barroso Flores (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)
TBA

15.30-15.45 Gabriel L. S. Rodrigues (University of Southern Denmark)
Variational MC-PDFT including Range-Separation: Strong Correlation? Not so Strong Anymore

15.45-16.00 Valentin Gradisteanu (OneAngstrom / National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology, France)
Understanding pKa Shifts Through Local Environment Analysis

19.06.2026
16.00-16.30

Coffee break and posters

19.06.2026
16.30-17.30

16.30-16.45 Attila Bende (National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies INCDTIM, Romania)
The nature of weak metal-ligand interactions in different metalloporphyrin ⋯hydrogen cyanide complexes: Limitations of DFT exchange-correlation functionals

16.45- TBA

19.06.2026
17.30-18.30

Poster session

19.06.2026
19.00-

Conference dinner

20.06.2026
09.00-10.30

Lectures
09:00 – 09:30 Hanoch Senderowitz (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
The chemical space for green energy harvesting and storage: population, visualization, and navigation

09:30 – 10:00 Ionuț Tranca (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 
Belgium)
TBA

10:00 – 10:30 Octav Caldăraru (Zealand Pharma, Denmark)
Computational Design of Peptide Therapeutics in the Era of AI

20.06.2026
10.30-11.00

Coffee break and posters

20.06.2026
11.00-13.00

11.00-11.30 Adrian M.V. Brânzanic (UBB)
TBA

11.30-TBA

20.06.2026
13.00-13.15

Closing remarks

Event location: INSPIRE platform and the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering 11, Arany Janos str, Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA
Contact: Alexandru Lupan – alexandru.lupan@ubbcluj.ro

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