ELIXIR2026
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Europe/Paris
Principal/0-0 - Salle Amphitheatre (Batiment Principal)
Description
The ELIXIR2026 workshop will take place at SOLEIL from March 9 to 11, 2026.
The development of vacuum-compatible liquid sampling sources has enabled the use of ionizing radiation sources (XUV and X-rays) to study a variety of phenomena in solution, such as reaction dynamics, solvation, or interfacial chemistry. This development is constantly evolving with improvements in light sources, such as the relative democratization of laser sources based on high-order harmonic generation, and improvements in liquid targets with for instance the recent development of stable flat liquid jets with sub-micrometer thicknesses.
The spectroscopic tools available are now extremely varied and reflect the diversity of the scientific communities interested in the study of liquid-phase phenomena at the molecular scale. They include time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (femtosecond and even attosecond), highly nonlinear optics via liquid-phase HHG, probes of chirality (circular X-ray dichroism, PECD), RIXS, coincidence measurements (e-,e-), etc.
This workshop will bring together users of these different tools. It will also provide an opportunity to compare and improve theoretical aspects of molecular dynamics in the liquid phase, thanks to the participation, we hope, of European experts in the field.
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08:45
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Registration 45m
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09:30
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Opening
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09:45
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10:25
Keynote: 1
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09:45
Liquid-Jet Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Aqueous Solutions: Recent Breakthroughs and Current Challenges 40mSpeaker: Bernd Winter (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)
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09:45
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Invited talk: 1
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10:25
A Flow-Focused Droplet Train for Investigating Solution Phase Processes with Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy 30mSpeaker: David Starr (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)
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10:25
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10:55
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Coffee break 20m
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11:15
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Invited talk: 2&3
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11:15
Probing Supramolecular Structures in Solution by Resonant Energy Transfer in the X-Ray Range 30mSpeaker: Eric Gloaguen
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11:45
Ultrafast Relaxation in Isolated and Aqueous Nucleobases: Substituent and Solvent Effects 30mSpeaker: Alexie Boyer (Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
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11:15
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12:35
Report: 1
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Real-Time Tracking of the intramolecular vibrational dynamics of liquid water 20mSpeaker: Oliviero Cannelli (CFEL-ATTO, DESY)
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Lunch 1h 25m
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Invited talk: 4&5
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14:00
Femtosecond Fieldoscopy 30mSpeaker: Hanieh Fattahi (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light Staudtstraße 2)
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14:30
Hydrophobic solvation at electrochemical interfaces 30mSpeaker: Simone Pezzotti (CPCV, Département de Chimie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL University, Sorbonne University)
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15:00
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Report: 2
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Practical User Guide of Liquid Sample Delivery Systems for User Facilities and Table-top X-ray Spectroscopy Applications 20mSpeaker: Anna Zymaková (ELI ERIC Beamlines Facility)
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15:00
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Coffee break 30m
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Invited talk: 6&7
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Characterization of non-aqueous solvents using liquid jet photo-electron spectroscopy 30mSpeaker: Hanns Christian Schewe (J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS)
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Report: 3
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Ultrafast Dynamics in Acetone Probed by Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy Using Few-Femtosecond Pulses 20mSpeaker: Kate Robertson (CEA)
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17:15
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Visit: SOLEIL Beamlines (GALAXIES, PLEIADES, TEMPO)
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18:30
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Poster session & Buffet dinner
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08:45
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Keynote: 2
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09:00
Electronic structure and photochemical dynamics of photoactive protein chromophores in aqueous solution 40mSpeaker: Mrs Helen Fielding (Department of Chemistry, University College London, UK)
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Invited talk: 8
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09:40
Investigations of heterogeneous processes at liquid- vapor interfaces 30mSpeaker: Hendrik Bluhm (Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Gesselschaft)
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09:40
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10:10
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10:50
Report: 4&5
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Quantifying Electronic Energetics And Surface Properties Of Aqueous Solutions 20mSpeaker: Stephan Thürmer (Kyoto University)
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10:30
From Gas-phase to Liquid Phase: Probing the Electronic Structure of Amino Acids with X-ray Spectroscopy 20mSpeaker: Juliette Leroux (University of Hamburg)
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10:10
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Coffee break 30m
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Invited talk: 9&10
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Beating Complex Solution Chemistry With The Selectivity Of Soft X-Rays 30mSpeaker: Annette Pietzsch (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)
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Real-time theoretical description of coherent electronic dynamics probed by high-harmonic generation and chiral spectroscopies 30mSpeaker: Eleonora Luppi
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Report: 6
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X-ray natural circular dichroism of chiral molecules in liquids 20mSpeaker: Gabriele Bonano (Elettra Sincrotrone)
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Lunch 1h 5m
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13:45
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Visit: Attolab
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16:00
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16:30
Invited talk: 11
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Relativistic-intensity laser-plasma interaction at kHz repetition rate on a liquid sheet target 30mSpeaker: Stefan Haessler (Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée (LOA), CNRS)
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Report: 7
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High-harmonic generation in liquid crystals using a temperature-controlled flat jet device: Probing mesophase transitions and local order 20mSpeaker: Marta Luisa Murillo Sánchez (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)
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Invited talk: 12
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Shaping Light with Liquids: Attosecond Physics for Tunable EUV Sources 30mSpeaker: ANGANA MONDAL (ARCNL)
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Coffee break 15m
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Invited talk: 13
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X-Ray Induced Intermolecular Decay Of Solvated Ions Investigated By Multi-Electron Coincidence Spectroscopy 30mSpeaker: Andreas Hans (Universität Kassel)
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Report: 8
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Attosecond spectroscopy of decoherence in liquid phase water 20mSpeaker: Gabriele Crippa (CEA Paris Saclay, LCPMR)
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FRSPE
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PEPR LUMMA
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Conference dinner 2h 30m
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Keynote: 3
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Computational Modelling for Liquid-Jet Photoemission Spectroscopy: Electronic Structure and Electron Transport 40mSpeaker: Petr Slavíček (University fo Chemistry and Technology, Prague)
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Invited talk: 14
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Liquid-Jet Velocity-Map Photoelectron Imaging 30mSpeaker: Iain Wilkinson (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie)
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Report: 9&10
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X-Ray-Induced Charge-Transfer-Processes In Solution 20mSpeaker: Prof. Olle Björneholm (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University)
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10:30
Theoretical Description Of High Order Harmonic Generation In Liquids 20mSpeaker: Beatriz Darna (CPCV - École Normale Supérieure)
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Coffee break 30m
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Invited talk: 15&16
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Angle-Resolved Photoemission from Liquid Jets 30mSpeaker: Gunnar Öhrwall (MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University)
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Water dipole orientation, Proton Transfer and Auger electron acceleration in Liquid water probed with Core-Level Spectroscopies 30mSpeaker: Prof. stéphane CARNIATO (LCPMR)
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Report: 11
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Probing Protonation State Dependent Charge Transfer-to-Solvent in L-cysteine via Sulfur Kβ Valence-to-Core Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering 20mSpeaker: Sayantan Sarkar (LCPMR, Sorbonne Université)
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Lunch 50m
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