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XVI International School and Symposium on Synchrotron
Radiation in Natural Science

ISSRNS 2025

Szczyrk, Poland, 25-30 May 2025

Timetable


The abstract book of ISSRNS’2025 Conference has been published in the Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society Bulletin: Synchrotron Radiation in Natural Sciences and is available here.

Presentations from lectures made available by: F. Sette, M. Soler-Lopez, M. Jankowski.


SUNDAY, 25 MAY 2025
17:00 - 19:00 Arrival & Registration
19:00 - 22:00 Welcome & Barbecue
MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
9:00 - 9:20 Opening
Unlocking new X-ray Science: ESRF after EBS Upgrade - part I
Chair: Karolina Jurkiewicz
9:20 - 10:20 Francesco Sette, The delivery of the ESRF EBS and its Upgrade Programme - MO_I1
10:20 - 11:00 Montserrat Soler Lopez, Advancements in Biological Sciences at the European Synchrotron - MO_I2
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
Unlocking new X-ray Science: ESRF after EBS Upgrade - part II
Chair: Francesco Sette
11:30 - 12:10 Marine Cotte, Shedding EBS light on artworks to get insight into their creation and to better preserve them - MO_I3
12:10 - 12:50 Catherine Dejoie, Advances in high-resolution powder diffraction for applications in materials chemistry - MO_I4
12:50 - 13:10 Houri S. Rahimi Mosafer, Effect of cationic substitution on structural properties of Ca3(VO4)2 orthovanadates - MO_O1
13:10 - 13:30 Cecilia Zito, Unraveling the mechanism of iron sulfide nanostructures formation: insights from in situ X-ray diffraction and spectroscopy studies - MO_O2
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch
18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
Unlocking new X-ray Science: ESRF after EBS Upgrade - part III
Chair: Ewa Partyka-Jankowska
19:00 - 19:40 Kiril Lomachenko, Operando XAS for catalysis at BM23 and ID24-DCM beamlines of the ESRF - MO_I5
19:40 - 20:00 Lukasz Rogal, Polymorphisms and Early-Stage Crystallization of Zr-Based Glasses Induced by High Pressure - MO_O3
20:00 - 20:20 Karolina Jurkiewicz, Insight into the structure of liquid-crystalline itraconazole drug - MO_O4
20:20 - 20:40 Maciej Jankowski, Advanced Software Tools and Workflows for Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering Analysis at ESRF: A User's Perspective - MO_O5
TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2025
XFEL application to natural science - part I
Chair: Przemysław Nogły
9:00 - 9:40 Thomas Feurer, An introduction to X-ray Science and hard X-ray Free Electron Lasers - TU_I1
9:40 - 10:20 Christopher Milne, Probing dynamics in biology, chemistry and physics using ultrafast X-rays - TU_I2
10:20 - 11:00 Paola Luches, Ultrafast dynamics of photoexcited states in cerium oxide investigated by pump-probe XAS at the EuXFEL - TU_I3
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
Material science, nanotechnology and magnetism- part I
Chair: Dorota Koziej
11:30 - 12:10 Oliver Rader, Angle-resolved photoemission of topological materials - TU_I4
12:10 - 12:50 Esko Kokkonen, Ambient pressure XPS at MAX IV Laboratory and how it is used for atomic layer deposition research - TU_I5
12:50 - 13:10 Elżbieta Guziewicz, Scanning Photoelectron Microscopy (SPEM) of N-doped ZnO films: impact of carbon on the electronic band structure at the nanometer scale - TU_O1
13:10 - 13:30 Romisaa Abdelrahman, Integrating XRF and XCT for Understanding Medieval Ceramic Production from Wawel Royal Castle - TU_O2
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 19:15 Excursion
19:15 - 20:30 Dinner
20:30 - 22:00 Poster session (Hall "Sala Wiosenna", 8. Floor)
WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2025
Material science, nanotechnology and magnetism- part II
Chair: Marcin Sikora
9:00 - 9:40 Magdalena Fitta, Unraveling charge transfer dynamics in switchable molecular magnets through X-ray absorption spectroscopy - WE_I1
9:40 - 10:20 Dorota Koziej, In situ X-Ray Synchrotron Methods for Exploring the Length Scale in Nanostructured Materials and Devices - WE_I2
10:20 - 10:40 Sarah-Alexandra Hussak, Visualizing the Competition between Etching and Sulfurization via in situ X-ray ptychography and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy - WE_O1
10:40 - 11:00 Vitaliy Bilovol, XAS and XMCD studies of spinel-type HEOs - WE_O2
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
XFEL application to natural science - part II
Chair: Christopher Milne
11:30 - 12:10 Henrik Till Lemke, Insights on condensed matter functions by FEL x-ray pulses - WE_I3
12:10 - 12:50 Maciej Lorenc, Ultrafast x-rays reveal new opportunities in nanostructured quantum materials - WE_I4
12:50 - 13:10 Michał Nowakowski, Fs-XES of the NIR-active spin-flip emitters - WE_O3
13:10 - 13:30 Jerzy Antonowicz, Bridging experiment and simulation: X-ray free-electron laser probing of optically induced melting of Palladium - WE_O4
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch
16:30 - 18:00 Ryszard Sobierajski, Polish research at the European XFEL - WE_I5
XFEL - round table
19:00 - 23:00 Conference dinner
THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
Life science, structural biology and chemistry
Chair: Montserrat Soler Lopez
9:00 - 9:40 Zbigniew Kaszkur, In situ nanopowder diffraction- between Bragg and diffuse scattering - TH_I1
9:40 - 10:20 Przemysław Nogły, Time-resolved serial crystallography at synchrotrons and XFELs - TH_I2
10:20 - 10:40 Piotr Guńka, Kinetic studies of the formation of arsenolite inclusion compound with hydrogen - TH_O1
10:40 - 11:00 Pawel Grochulski, The health and life sciences research in the Canadian Light Source - TH_O2
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
X-ray Research for Ecologically Sustainable Society - part I
Chair: Hitoshi Abe
11:30 - 12:10 Michael Knapp, Probing Batteries with X-rays and Neutrons from Cradle to Grave - TH_I3
12:10 - 12:50 Yoshio Takahashi, High energy resolution fluorescence XAFS for the speciation of cesium and rare earth elements in geochemical and environmental samples - TH_I4
12:50 - 13:10 Muhmmad Jamshaid Shabbir, Structural characterization of carbon materials derived from chestnut biomass - TH_O3
13:10 - 13:30 Diana Havryliuk, Electronic structure and chemical segregation process induced by redox conditions in PbHfO3 single crystal - TH_O4
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch
16:00 - 18:00 General meeting of PTPS (Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society)
18:00 - 19:00 Dinner
X-ray Research for Ecologically Sustainable Society - part II
Chair: Ryszard Sobierajski
19:00 - 19:40 Benedikt Lassalle, In situ/operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy coupled to electrocatalysis - TH_I5
New opportunities: ELI, SOLARIS
19:40 - 20:00 Tomas Parkman, Ultrafast laser-driven X-ray sources at ELI Beamlines: From HHG and plasma X-ray to LPA-driven sources - TH_O5
20:00 - 20:20 Henryk Fiedorowicz, Laser-plasma soft X-ray sources based on a gas puff target for application in absorption spectroscopy and coherence tomography - TH_O6
20:20 - 20:40 Katarzyna Sowa, PolyX@SOLARIS – beamline for multimodal microimaging and spectromicroscopy - TH_O7
20:40 - 21:00 Maciej Kozak, Recent Progress in Construction of SMAUG Beamline at SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre - TH_O8
FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
Research at SOLARIS
Chair: Yoshio Takahashi
9:00 - 9:40 Ewa Partyka-Jankowska, SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre: infrastructure for research - FR_I1
9:40 - 10:00 Rafał Fanselow, Unveiling the electronic structure of Zinc Selenide Quantum Dots with X-ray Spectroscopy - FR_O1
10:00 - 10:20 Edyta Piskorska-Hommel, Study of the occupation sites in the lattice crystal by different elements composed of high-entropy alloys - FR_O2
10:20 - 10:40 Aleksandra Drzewiecka-Antonik, Platinum complexes with thiourea derivatives as ligands: looking for their bonding scheme - FR_O3
10:40 - 11:00 Alexey Maximenko, Unveiling ASTRA: A Versatile tender XAS workhorse beamline at SOLARIS Synchrotron - FR_O4
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
PTPS award session
Chair: Agnieszka Witkowska
11:30 - 12:00 Mariusz Jaskólski, Crystal structures of the elusive Rhizobium etli l-asparaginase reveal a peculiar active site - FR_I2
12:00 - 12:30 Ashutosh Wadge, Exploring electronic properties of topological semimetals TaAs2 and NbP: crystal growth, electron transport and ARPES studies - FR_I3
12:30 - 13:00 Mohammad Shakeri, Aternative local melting solidification of suspended nanoparticles for heterostructure formation enabledby pulsed laser irradiation - FR_I4
13:00 - 13:30 Closing
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 Departure of conference bus to Bielsko-Biała