Meeting Agenda (preliminary)
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Morning and lunch: MAX IV User Meeting (The Loop)
13:45 - 14:15 Welcome fika at MAX IV (4th floor)
14:15 - 15:00 Welcome Session
- Welcome and meeting agenda, by Marjolein Thunnissen, PRISMAS Programme Director
- Updates from Study Committee and plan for Summer School 2026, by Lindsay Merte, PRISMAS Director of Studies
- New students - short talks by German Alvarez Carrero, Yazareth Rodriguez, Wan Wei, Sumayyah Khan
15:00 - 15:45 Invited talk, by Patrick Lömker
"High Pressure Photoelectron Spectroscopy at High Brilliance Storage Rings"
15:45 - 16:30 Invited talk, by Rainer Timm
"In situ characterization of advanced semiconductor devices – research examples and introduction to a new LINXS Theme"
16:30 - 17:30 Students' closed meeting
17:30 - 18:30 Poster Session
Thursday, January 22, 2026
CANCELLED 08:30 - 09:15 Invited talk, by Conny Såthe, Group Manager Spectroscopy, Beamline VERITAS
CHANGE
09:15 - 10:00 Invited talk, by Nils Skoglund
“X-rays lighting the path towards understanding multicomponent samples – combining techniques from laboratory to synchrotron”
10:00 - 10:45 Coffee Break and Poster Session
10:45 - 11:30 Invited talk, by Karen Edler
"Oxidised cellulose nanofibers for sustainable formulations"
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:15 Invited talk, by Axel Eriksson, Ergonomics and Aerosol Technology, Lund University
"Aerosol interrogated by photons - in situ XPS and complementary techniques"
13:15 - 15:00 Students’ presentations, Part A
- Antonis Myridakis, The role of fungal decomposition in the mobilization of organic matter and iron in peatlands
- Iason Andronis, Kinetics of crystal formation and melting in acoustically levitated droplets
- Philip Miguel Kofoed, Diffraction anomalous fine structure studies of two-dimensional iron and cobalt oxides
- Julian Marius Ludäscher, Structural studies of DNA glycosylases in DNA repair
- Varun Raj Damerla, XPS investigation of KOH-induced corrosion in FeCrMnCoNi high entropy alloy
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:15 Students’ presentations, Part B
- Daniel Rainer, Towards More Sustainable Rare-Earth-Free Permanent Magnets via Laser Powder Bed Fusion
- Senuri Kumarage, Probing the alignment of nanocelluloses in the presence of MOF during 3D printing- operando scanning SAXS
- Gayathri Yuvaraj, Quantum-refinement for time-resolved crystallography
- Nishant Patel, Synchrotron Scanning Photoelectron Microscopy of Polarization-doped AlGaN/GaN Heterostructures
- Hirad Salari, X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy study of electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution Reaction on $Ni_xFe_{1–x}O_yH_z$ - A Mechanistic Study
18:30 Social Dinner (Kulturens Restaurang)
Friday, January 23, 2026
CHANGE
08:30 - 12:30 Mattias Georgson Petrén, Arkatay
Planning Workshop “Your PhD Project”
(10:00 Coffee Break)
12:30 - 13:30 Goodbye lunch
