MAX IV Workshop on Soft X-ray Spectroscopies – from Free Atoms to the Condensed Phases

30 Jun 2026, 08:40 → 1 Jul 2026, 16:30 Europe/Stockholm

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This  workshop is held as a satellite meeting to the VUVX 2026 conference in Uppsala (22–26 June)

Welcome to the MAX IV Workshop on Soft X-ray Spectroscopies – from Free Atoms to the Condensed Phases.

Taking place from June 30th to July 1st, 2026, at the MAX IV Laboratory in Lund, Sweden, this two-day event aims to engage our user community and attract new collaborations to explore the future of our fields. The workshop will focus on recent advancements and future directions in Atomic, Molecular and Optical (AMO) science and Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS).

A key objective of this workshop is to identify the future needs of scientific research to help shape the upcoming MAX IV Soft X-ray Strategy 2037. The program features presentations from invited speakers, a poster session, a dedicated round-table discussion, and guided beamline tours.

If you would like to make a pitch presentation during the workshop, please register for the event and submit a short abstract to LDM@maxiv.lu.se by the 10th May.

Please note that there is no registration fee to attend this workshop.

Please fill out the form below to secure your spot.
We look forward to welcoming you to Lund!

Program

• Invited speaker presentations
• Poster session
• Soft X-ray Science Strategy for MAX IV –2037
• New ideas pitched by the community
• Beamline tour

Topics

• X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS)
• Resonant Inelastic X-ray Spectroscopy (RIXS)
• Photoelectron and Auger electron spectroscopy
• Coincidence spectroscopies
• Instrumentation
• Theory 

 

More information and the detailed schedule will be available soon on maxiv.se and vuvx2026.se

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We gratefully acknowledge financial support for the workshop from Kungliga Fysiografiska Sällskapet in Lund.

 

Tuesday 30 June

08:40 → 10:30 Session 1

Chair: Gunnar Öhrwall

08:40 Welcome & introduction to Soft X-ray Science Strategy

Speaker: Noelle Walsh (MAX IV)

09:00 High-resolution AMO RIXS with varying scattering angle and polarization

Speaker: Jan-Erik Rubensson

09:30 Liquid-Jet Photoelectron Spectroscopy: New Frontiers for Probing Complex Aqueous Interfaces and Chiral Molecules

Speaker: Florian Trinter

10:00 Time-Domain Analysis of Coherent Phonon Dynamics in Graphite: Extracting Electron-Phonon Coupling from High-Resolution RIXS via FFT/IFFT

Speaker: Martin Magnusson

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:20 Session 2

Chair: Anirudha Ghosh

11:00 Ultrahigh-Resolution 2D-RIXS and RIXS Microscopy at NanoTerasu: Achievements and Next Steps

Speaker: Jun Miyawaka

11:30 XPS on Secondary Organic and Miscellaneous other Aerosols @ MAXIV

Speaker: Axel Eriksson

12:00 Soft X-ray Techniques for Buried Interface Chemistry in Solid-State Batteries: Opportunities for In Situ and Operando Studies

Speaker: Abhirup Bhadra

12:20 → 13:20 Lunch

13:20 → 14:40 Session 3

Chair: Takashi Tokushima

13:20 X-ray absorption spectroscopy of ionic species using ion trapping

Speaker: Ville Lindblom

13:50 Prospects for High-resolution Soft X-ray Spectroscopy at the Planned Integrated Research Facility BESSY III in Berlin-Adlershof

Speaker: Jens Viefhaus

14:20 Imaging spectrometer for high through put spectroscopy @ Veritas B branch- pitch

Speaker: Marcus Agåker

14:40 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 16:20 Session 4

Chair: Maxim Tchaplyguine

15:00 X-Ray-Induced Charge-Transfer-Processes In Solution

Speaker: Olle Björneholm

15:30 Using Soft X-ray Spectroscopy in the Development Work for Renewable Carbon Black Production

Speaker: Henrik Wiinikka

16:00 Disentangling soft x-ray induced relaxation mechanisms in atomic clusters using multielectron coincidence spectroscopy

Speaker: Niklas Golchert

17:00 → 18:30 Poster session and mingle

Wednesday 1 July

09:00 → 10:30 Session 5

Chair: Surajit Ghosh

09:00 Operando Soft X-ray Spectroscopy for Photocatalytic PFAS destruction and Noble MAX Phases

Speaker: Shun Kashiwara

09:30 Probing biomolecular functional structures with soft X-rays

Speaker: Sadia Bari

10:00 Probing the Influence of solutes on the Hydrogen-Bond Network of Liquid Water

Speaker: Henrik Vinter Sörensen

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Session 6

Chair: Antti Kivimäki

11:00 Catalysis by microporous zeolites and zeotypes through the lens of Soft X-Ray Spectroscopies and Photoionization Mass-Spectrometry

Speaker: Evgeniy Redekop

11:30 High Resolution RIXS of Liquids

Speaker: Zhong Yin

12:00 Beyond gas-phase – towards multi particle correlation spectroscopy of condensed, transient and negatively charged species

Speaker: Richard Squibb

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:30 Session 7

Chairs: Noelle Walsh/Calle Preger/Conny Såthe

13:30 Round Table Discussion – Soft X-ray Strategy/Future capabilities

14:45 → 15:15 Coffee is served

15:30 → 16:30 Beamline tours