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Third Korea/Sweden Advanced X-ray Science Symposium : Science at the diffraction limit : opportunities for Sweden/Korea collaborations
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MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4 (MAX IV Laboratory)
MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX IV Laboratory
MAX IV Laboratory
Fotongatan 2
SE-224 84 Lund
Sweden
Aymeric Robert
(MAX IV Laboratory),
Hyunjung Kim
(Sogang University)
Description
Following the success of the first (Sept 2024) and second (Sept 2025) Korea/Sweden Advanced X-ray Science Symposium, organized in Lund and funded by KNTEC, the third edition will take place on June 4-5, 2026, in Lund.
This time the theme is:
"Science at the diffraction limit: Opportunities for Sweden/Korea Collaborations"
Pictures from the second Korea/Sweden Symposium in 2025
https://indico.maxiv.lu.se/e/Kor-Swe-Xray-symposium-2
Pictures from the first Korea/Sweden Symposium in 2024
We want to thank KNTEC for their financial support.
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Introductions MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX IV Laboratory
MAX IV Laboratory Fotongatan 2 SE-224 84 Lund Sweden-
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Start of the Meeting 5m
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MAX IV Welcome 10mSpeaker: Joachim Schnadt (Division of Synchrotron Radiation Research, Lund University)
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Korea : Welcome 10mSpeaker: Hyunjung Kim (Sogang University)
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KNTEC Welcome 5mSpeaker: Heewoong Park (KNTEC)
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Fika-1 MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
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Introductions MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX IV Laboratory
MAX IV Laboratory Fotongatan 2 SE-224 84 Lund SwedenConvener: Hyunjung Kim (Sogang University)-
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MAX IV and MAX 4U 45mSpeaker: Dr Aymeric Robert (MAX IV Laboratory)
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4GSR Presentation 45mSpeaker: Dr Kyung Tae Ko (4GSR)
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Lunch-1 MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
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MAX IV Laboratory Fotongatan 2 SE-224 84 Lund Sweden -
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Environmental and Health Sciences MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX IV Laboratory
MAX IV Laboratory Fotongatan 2 SE-224 84 Lund SwedenConvener: Kajsa Sigfridsson Clauss-
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Env-1 | Environmental and Earth Sciences with MAX 4U and Balder 30mSpeaker: Kajsa Sigfridsson Clauss (MAX IV Laboratory)
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Env-2 | Multiscale & -modal characterisation of renewable materials 30mSpeaker: Mira Viljanen (MAX IV Laboratory)
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Env 3 - In-flight characterization of aerosols using an aerodynamic lens system 30mSpeaker: Calle Preger (MAX IV & LTH)
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Env-4 : Environmental Science at SoftiMAX 30mSpeaker: Karina Thånell (MAX IV Laboratory)
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Fika-2 MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
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Energy Materials MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX IV Laboratory
MAX IV Laboratory Fotongatan 2 SE-224 84 Lund SwedenConvener: Robert Temperton-
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Energy-1 | MAX 4U, Energy Materials and photoemission at a 4th generation synchrotron 30mSpeaker: Robert Temperton (MAX IV Laboratory)
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Energy-3 : Unveiling Ultrafast Phase-Transition Dynamics in Perovskite Oxides through Time-resolved Bragg Coherent X-ray Diffraction Imaging 30mSpeaker: Hyunjung Kim
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Energy-2: Probing buried interface of heterostructure of transition metal oxides using tender X-ray spectroscopies 30mSpeaker: Prof. Bongjin Simon Mun (GIST)
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Energy-4: Hidden interfaces direct ferroelastic variant selection in BiVO4 nanoparticles 30mSpeaker: Dr Kyuseok Yoon (Sogang University)
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Dinner-2: Symposium Dinner Stäket
Stäket
Stora Södergatan 6 222 23 Lund https://share.google/Jp6Fdwpj7CRWZgdZr
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Energy Materials MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX IV Laboratory
MAX IV Laboratory Fotongatan 2 SE-224 84 Lund SwedenConvener: Robert Temperton-
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Energy-5 : Mechanistic Understanding of Electrocatalyst Degradation via In Situ/Operando Analysis 30mSpeaker: Prof. Heejong Shin (Sogang University)
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Energy-6 | Batteries at DanMAX 20mSpeaker: Thorbjørn Erik Køppen Christensen (MAX IV Laboratory)
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Energy-7 | Accelerating Insights into Complex Material Formation Processes: Multimodal High-Throughput Schemes for Semiconductor Synthesis for Photovoltaics 20mSpeaker: Justus Just (MAX IV Laboratory)
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Energy-8 | RIXS for Battery Materials at MAX IV 20mSpeaker: Surajit Ghosh (MAX IV Laboratory)
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Fika-3 MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
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Advanced Materials MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX IV Laboratory
MAX IV Laboratory Fotongatan 2 SE-224 84 Lund SwedenConvener: Kim Nygård-
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Mat-1 | Advanced materials @ MAX 4U 30mSpeaker: Kim Nygård (MAX IV Laboratory)
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Mat-2: Behavior of the monoclinic order in VO2 thin films near the metal-insulator transition 30mSpeaker: Prof. Do-Young Noh (GIST)
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Mat-3 : Autonomous nanoparticle synthesis at DanMAX 30mSpeaker: Mads Jørgensen (Mads Ry Jørgensen)
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Mat-4 : Building and Proving AI-Ready DAQ Infrastructure for Korea-4GSR 30mSpeaker: Sukjune Choi (KBSI)
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Lunch-2 MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
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Health and Life Sciences MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX IV Laboratory
MAX IV Laboratory Fotongatan 2 SE-224 84 Lund SwedenConvener: Dean Lang-
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Health-1 | Health and Life Sciences at MAX IV 30m
Health and life sciences research represents one of the largest and most diverse user communities at MAX IV. The suite of imaging, diffraction, and spectroscopy techniques allows investigations from the millimetre to Ångstrom scale. The complementarity between x-ray techniques often enables studying the structure, chemical identity, and evolution of living materials with very high precision. Incorporating time further extends measurement to an additional dimension, with potential for microsecond (and lower) resolution. Beyond x-ray measurement, the lab supports various microscopies including IR and cryo-EM, and fragment-based screening, and in the future in vivo tomography.
The proposed MAX4U upgrade [1] to the 3 GeV storage ring promises significant advancement at the forefronts of health and life sciences synchrotron research. High-resolution imaging (tomography and ptychography, and scanning SAXS) and time-resolved techniques (SAXS, MX) which take advantage of the increased coherence and flux densities, albeit with consideration of radiation damage and heating effects, from a more brilliant source.
In this talk, I present an overview of health and life science research at MAX IV. I will emphasize high-impact publications which highlight the capabilities of MAX IV’s today. Further, I will present how health and life science research community can most benefit from MAX4U.
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[1]. A. Robert et al., Eur. Phys. J. Plus 138, 495 (2023)Speaker: Dean Lang (MAX IV Laboratory) -
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Health-2 : Accelerating Drug Development: Current Status and Advancement Plans for PAL MX Beamline 30m
The Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL) at PLS-II operates three macromolecular crystallography (MX) beamlines—5C, 7A, and 11C—supporting protein structure determination and structure-based drug discovery. Beamlines 5C and 11C are equipped with robotic sample mounting systems, enabling efficient high-throughput and remote experiments. In particular, the 5C beamline provides a dedicated Fragment-Based Drug Discovery (FBDD) platform, facilitating early-stage therapeutic development.
The 7A beamline is currently undergoing major upgrades, including the installation of an EIGER2 detector, robotic system, and advanced goniometer to enhance throughput and data quality. The 11C beamline, optimized for microcrystals (<50 µm) and synchrotron serial crystallography (SSX), is being expanded from 90 to 1,332 sample capacity through a high-throughput automation system. In addition, a compound refractive lens (CRL) transfocator will enable flexible beam size control, significantly broadening experimental capabilities.
Furthermore, a novel flip-type fixed-target holder has been developed to address key challenges in SSX, enabling reliable room-temperature data collection.
Together, these developments position PAL’s MX beamlines as advanced platforms for high-throughput structural biology, further accelerating structure-based drug discovery.References
[1] Novel fixed-target serial crystallography flip-holder for macromolecular crystallography beamlines at synchrotron radiation sources. J Synchrotron Radiat. 2025 Mar 1;32(Pt 2):315-320.
[2] BL-11C Micro-MX: a high-flux microfocus macromolecular-crystallography beamline for micrometre-sized protein crystals at Pohang Light Source II. J Synchrotron Radiat. 2021 Jul 1;28(Pt 4):1210-1215.
[3] Upgrade of BL-5C as a highly automated macromolecular crystallography beamline at Pohang Light Source II. J Synchrotron Radiat. 2021 Mar 1;28(Pt 2):602-608.Speaker: Suk-Youl Park (PAL) -
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Health-3 | Macromolecular crystallography at MAX IV: from drug discovery to time-resolved studies 30m
MAX IV Laboratory hosts two beamlines for macromolecular crystallography (MX), BioMAX and MicroMAX, which together with the FragMAX platform provide integrated support for a broad range of structural biology applications, from routine diffraction experiments to time-resolved studies and early-stage drug discovery.
BioMAX was the first operational beamline at MAX IV Laboratory and is a versatile MX instrument offering tunable energy and variable beam sizes for a wide range of crystallographic applications. Equipped for highly automated high-throughput experiments, it is closely integrated with FragMAX, a platform for crystallographic fragment and ligand screening. FragMAX combines high-throughput crystal preparation, fragment libraries, automated data collection at BioMAX, and data-processing pipelines, supporting both academic and industrial users in structure-guided drug discovery and chemical biology.
MicroMAX expands the possibilities of macromolecular crystallography by combining a highly focused X-ray beam with advanced experimental methods for serial crystallography and time-resolved studies. The beamline supports a wide range of sample-delivery systems and sample environments, including light triggering and mixing for time-resolved experiments. Equipped with an X-ray chopper and a Jungfrau integrating detector, MicroMAX enables measurements on sub-100 microsecond timescales. More recently, its capabilities have been extended to include ptychographic imaging of biological samples under cryogenic conditions.
In this talk, we will present the current capabilities and design principles of the MX infrastructure at MAX IV, discuss ongoing developments and experimental opportunities, and outline future challenges and strategic priorities.
References
[1] Ursby, T. et al. BioMAX – the first macromolecular crystallography beamline at MAX IV Laboratory. J Synchrotron Rad 27, (2020).
[2] Gonzalez, A. et al. Status and perspective of protein crystallography at the first multi-bend achromat based synchrotron MAX IV. J Synchrotron Rad 32, 779–791 (2025).
[3] Kanchugal P., S. et al. FragMAX Facility for Crystallographic Fragment and Ligand Screening at MAX IV. Applied Research 4, e202400263 (2025).Speakers: Jie Nan (MAX IV Laboratory), Tobias Krojer (BioMAX) -
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Health-4 | Multimodal Synchrotron Imaging at MAX IV: New Perspectives for Cell and Tissue Research 30mSpeaker: Valeriia Skoryk (Lund University)
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Fika-4 MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
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Quantum Materials MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX IV Laboratory
MAX IV Laboratory Fotongatan 2 SE-224 84 Lund SwedenConvener: Balasubramanian Thiagarajan (MAX IV Laboratory)-
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Quantum-1 | Quantum Materials and Technology with MAX 4U 30mSpeaker: Dr Leonardo Oliveira (MAX IV laboratory)
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Quantum-2 | Altermagnetic research at MAXIV 30mSpeaker: Evangelos Gkolias (MAX IV Laboratory)
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Quantum-3 : Toward In-Operando nanoARPES: Active Control of Electronic Structures in Quantum Materials Devices 30mSpeaker: Sae Hee Ryu (KBSI)
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CANCELLED : Quantum-4 | Quantum Materials research at the Bloch beamline 30mSpeaker: Balasubramanian Thiagarajan (MAX IV Laboratory)
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Conclusion MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX III Meeting Room - Floor 4
MAX IV Laboratory
MAX IV Laboratory Fotongatan 2 SE-224 84 Lund SwedenConveners: Hyunjung Kim (Sogang University), Joachim Schnadt (Division of Synchrotron Radiation Research, Lund University)
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