IR-EMPOWER is the community workshop dedicated specifically to infrared emissivity measurement: techniques and protocols, intercomparisons and databases, modelling and simulation, and thermophysical metrology and its applications. Where the field’s larger conferences treat emissivity as one topic among many, IR-EMPOWER is the meeting where it is the only topic — the laboratories of the research map in one room.
The series was founded in 2024 by the Thermomat / HAIRL group at the University of the Basque Country (EHU) in Bilbao, and continues with editions hosted by member laboratories of the network — the second at the Center for Applied Energy Research (CAE) in Würzburg in 2026. It is one of the community’s research networks.
| Edition | Status | Dates | Venue | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IR-EMPOWER 2026 | Programme publishedIn progressArchive | 28–29 September 2026 | CAE, Würzburg, Germany | Center for Applied Energy Research |
| IR-EMPOWER 2024 | Archive | 5–6 September 2024 | Bizkaia Aretoa, Bilbao, Spain | Thermomat / HAIRL, EHU |
The 2026 programme lists all 21 talks; the 2024 archive keeps the first edition’s programme, speakers and committees.
IR-EMPOWER contributions are among the public evidence used by the research map’s methodology to document which institutions are active in emissivity measurement. Announcements for upcoming editions appear in News and on the conference calendar.