IMA2026 Nanjing meeting report

IMA Meetings

IMA2026 meeting in Nanjing successfully concluded

We are pleased to announce that the IMA2026 Nanjing has successfully concluded.
The meeting brought together 789 participants from 29 countries around the world and provided a valuable opportunity for scientific discussion and interaction. The scientific program featured 540 oral presentations and 151 poster displays, covering a wide spectrum of topics including deep-Earth, deep-space, deep-sea and deep-time mineralogy, critical metal mineralogy, carbon-neutrality mineralogy, planetary mineralogy, and mineral informatics. We are very grateful to all the participants for their active contributions and would also like to express our sincere appreciation to the Local Organizing Committee for their great dedication and support. In addition to a number of focused Scientific Sessions, the meeting also featured lectures by the following colleagues.

Medalist Lecture:
∙ Tetsuo Irifune (2023 IMA Medalist, Ehime University, Japan)
∙ Hailiang Dong (2024 IMA Medalist, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China)
∙ Bjorn Mysen (2025 IMA Medalist, Carnegie Institution in Washington, USA)

Plenary Lecture:
∙ Robert Hazen (Carnegie Institution in Washington, USA)
∙ Rucheng Wang (Nanjing University, China)
∙ Artem Oganov (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia)
∙ Leonid Dubrovinsky (Bayreuth University, Germany)

Technical Progress Report:
∙ Haiyang Xian (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

IMA President Lecture:
∙ Hans-Peter Schertl (IMA President 2022-2024, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
∙ Eiji Ohtani (IMA President 2024-2026, Tohoku University, Japan)

During the meeting, two Business Meetings were held, in which new Council Members, including the 1st Vice President were elected, and a new IMA Council was then constituted with Nancy Ross as the new President. In addition, Vancouver, Canada has been officially selected at the venue of the next IMA meeting. We look forward to seeing you again at IMA 2030 in Vancouver!

Please note that the IMA 2026 website will remain online for at least two more years.
https://ima2026.nju.edu.cn/

All photographs and abstracts will continue to be available for download by participants and interested colleagues during this period. Photos from the meeting can be found here:
https://m.alltuu.com/album/ab7485a8b488a44ec03a673179e8dafc/?from=qrCode&menu=live

Business Meetings at IMA 2026 Nanjing

IMA Meetings

Agendas of IMA Business Meetings at IMA 2026 Nanjing

Two Business Meetings will be held during IMA 2026 Nanjing in a hybrid format. we kindly request the participation of representatives from each national organization. In particular, the second meeting will include elections for new Executive Board and Council Members of IMA (see below). The agendas of the Business Meetings are available below, and the zoom link has been sent to each National Representative by email. (If, for any reason, you have not received that email, please contact the Secretary.)

  • 1st IMA Business Meeting (General assembly)
    Friday, August 21, 13:30-14:30 (GMT+8:00), Room 801
    Agenda
  • 2nd IMA Business Meeting (Election)
    Sunday, August 23, 13:15-14:30 (GMT+8:00), Room 801
    Agenda

2026 IMA Election

Please note that voting for the election of new IMA Officers/Council Members will take place at the 2nd Business Meeting. You can view the candidates nominated to date, together with their CVs, on this password-protected page. The password can be found in the email that was sent to each national representative.

Voting at the 2nd Business Meeting (August 23) will be conducted according to the number of voting rights allocated to each country. If the National Representatives do not attend the meeting, please inform the secretary of the delegate who will cast votes on behalf of their national society. For those who intend to participate online, instructions for electronic voting will be provided by email to the National Representatives.

In addition to the candidates listed, if national delegates wish to nominate someone, the name of the candidate and the names of at least three delegates supporting the candidate must be submitted to the secretary at least 30 hours before the election (see article 11 of the IMA Constitution for detail)

IMA Meetings

IMA Meetings

IMA Meetings

Every four years, IMA general meeting is hosted by one of the national member societies. The meeting provides a forum for mineralogists and related scientists from around the world to:

  • Present and discuss the latest research in mineralogy and related fields.
  • Exchange information and ideas across diverse subfields of mineralogy
  • Conduct business meetings
  • Conduct official meetings for IMA Commissions/Working Groups
  • Participate in specialized, short courses and field excursions.

We are currently seeking bids from national societies to host IMA 2034. The requirements for an IMA meeting and a guide to the process of bidding to host the meeting are set out in the IMA Meetings Guide. Preliminary bids to host IMA-2034 must be delivered to Council by June 2028. Bids will be reviewed by Council when it meets at the EMC in Brest in July 2028.

Next Meeting:

The next IMA general meeting will be held in Vancouver, Canada in August 2030.

Past Meetings:

IMA 2026 Nanjing (China)

IMA 2022 Lyon (France)

  • Program

IMA 2018 Melbourne (Australia)

  • Program

IMA 2014 Johannesburg (Republic of South Africa)

IMA 2010 Budapest (Hungary)

IMA 2006 Kobe (Japan)

IMA 2002 Edinburgh (UK)

IMA 1998 Toronto (Canada)

IMA 1994 Pisa (Italy)

IMA 1990 Beijing (China)

IMA1986 Standrod (USA)

IMA 1982 Varna (Bulgaria)

IMA 1978 Novosibirsk (USSR)

IMA 1974 Berlin & Regensburg (Germany)

IMA 1970 Tokyo & Kyoto (Japan)

IMA 1968 Prague (Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia)

IMA 1966 Cambridge (UK)

IMA 1964 Dehli (India)

IMA 1963 Washington (USA)

IMA 1960 Madrid (Spain)

Report of IMA Meetings at EMC 2024 Dublin

IMA Meetings

Report of IMA Meetings at EMC 2024 Dublin

During EMC 2024 in Dublin on 18-23 August, three IMA Council Meetings and two Business Meetings were held. All the meetings were held in a hybrid format with participants primarily in person and some in remote.

At the 1st Business Meeting, Has-Peter Schertl, IMA President reported the summary of IMA activities for the past two years since IMA 2022 Lyon including the current financial status of IMA, recent updates on commissions/working group and committees and the preparation for the next IMA meeting in Nanjing. In addition, some revisions of the IMA constitution and by-laws proposed by Council and the nominations for the election of Council Members were announced.

At the 2nd Business Meeting, the audit report of IMA’s financial accounts for the last two years was presented. Voting was held to elect new Council Members and Executive Officers, and national delegates who participated in person and online cast their votes (see the minutes of the meeting for the results of the vote). A vote was also taken for the revision of the IMA constitutions and by-laws, and the proposed changes were approved.

At the closing ceremony of the EMC, the IMA medal was presented by President Hans-Peter Schertl to Patricia Dove, 2022 IMA Medalist and then the steering wheel with the names of all the past presidents engraved on it was handed over from Hans-Peter to President-Elect Eiji Ohtani.

President, Hans-Peter Schertl
2022 IMA Medalist, Patricia Dove
IMA Steering Wheel Handover to Eiji Ohtani
After Council Meeting at historical Museum Building