ELIXIR2026

Europe/Paris
Principal/0-0 - Salle Amphitheatre (Batiment Principal)

Principal/0-0 - Salle Amphitheatre

Batiment Principal

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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.

Book of abstracts
Programme
    • 08:45
      Registration
    • Opening
    • Keynote: 1
      • 1
        Liquid-Jet Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Aqueous Solutions: Recent Breakthroughs and Current Challenges
        Speaker: Bernd Winter (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)
    • Invited talk: 1
      • 2
        A Flow-Focused Droplet Train for Investigating Solution Phase Processes with Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
        Speaker: David Starr (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)
    • 10:55
      Coffee break
    • Invited talk: 2&3
      • 3
        Probing Supramolecular Structures in Solution by Resonant Energy Transfer in the X-Ray Range
        Speaker: Eric Gloaguen
      • 4
        Ultrafast Relaxation in Isolated and Aqueous Nucleobases: Substituent and Solvent Effects
        Speaker: Alexie Boyer (Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University)
    • Report: 1
    • 12:35
      Lunch
    • Invited talk: 4&5
      • 6
        Femtosecond Fieldoscopy
        Speaker: Hanieh Fattahi (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light Staudtstraße 2)
      • 7
        Hydrophobic solvation at electrochemical interfaces
        Speaker: Simone Pezzotti (CPCV, Département de Chimie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL University, Sorbonne University)
    • Report: 2
      • 8
        Practical User Guide of Liquid Sample Delivery Systems for User Facilities and Table-top X-ray Spectroscopy Applications
        Speaker: Anna Zymaková (ELI ERIC Beamlines Facility)
    • 15:20
      Coffee break
    • Invited talk: 6&7
      • 9
        Liquid Sample at EuXFEL
        Speaker: Joana Valerio (EuXFEL)
      • 10
        Characterization of non-aqueous solvents using liquid jet photo-electron spectroscopy
        Speaker: Hanns Christian Schewe (J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS)
    • Report: 3
      • 11
        Ultrafast Dynamics in Acetone Probed by Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy Using Few-Femtosecond Pulses
        Speaker: Kate Robertson (CEA)
    • Visit: SOLEIL Beamlines (GALAXIES, PLEIADES, TEMPO)
    • Poster session & Buffet dinner
    • Keynote: 2
      • 12
        Electronic structure and photochemical dynamics of photoactive protein chromophores in aqueous solution
        Speaker: Mrs Helen Fielding (Department of Chemistry, University College London, UK)
    • Invited talk: 8
      • 13
        Investigations of heterogeneous processes at liquid- vapor interfaces
        Speaker: Hendrik Bluhm (Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Gesselschaft)
    • Report: 4&5
      • 14
        Quantifying Electronic Energetics And Surface Properties Of Aqueous Solutions
        Speaker: Stephan Thürmer (Kyoto University)
      • 15
        From Gas-phase to Liquid Phase: Probing the Electronic Structure of Amino Acids with X-ray Spectroscopy
        Speaker: Juliette Leroux (University of Hamburg)
    • 10:50
      Coffee break
    • Invited talk: 9&10
      • 16
        Beating Complex Solution Chemistry With The Selectivity Of Soft X-Rays
        Speaker: Annette Pietzsch (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)
      • 17
        Real-time theoretical description of coherent electronic dynamics probed by high-harmonic generation and chiral spectroscopies
        Speaker: Eleonora Luppi
    • Report: 6
    • 12:40
      Lunch
    • Visit: Attolab
    • Invited talk: 11
      • 19
        Relativistic-intensity laser-plasma interaction at kHz repetition rate on a liquid sheet target
        Speaker: Stefan Haessler (Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée (LOA), CNRS)
    • Report: 7
      • 20
        High-harmonic generation in liquid crystals using a temperature-controlled flat jet device: Probing mesophase transitions and local order
        Speaker: Marta Luisa Murillo Sánchez (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)
    • Invited talk: 12
      • 21
        Shaping Light with Liquids: Attosecond Physics for Tunable EUV Sources
        Speaker: ANGANA MONDAL (ARCNL)
    • 17:20
      Coffee break
    • Invited talk: 13
      • 22
        X-Ray Induced Intermolecular Decay Of Solvated Ions Investigated By Multi-Electron Coincidence Spectroscopy
        Speaker: Andreas Hans (Universität Kassel)
    • Report: 8
      • 23
        Attosecond spectroscopy of decoherence in liquid phase water
        Speaker: Gabriele Crippa (CEA Paris Saclay, LCPMR)
    • FRSPE
    • PEPR LUMMA
    • 19:30
      Conference dinner
    • Keynote: 3
      • 24
        Computational Modelling for Liquid-Jet Photoemission Spectroscopy: Electronic Structure and Electron Transport
        Speaker: Petr Slavíček (University fo Chemistry and Technology, Prague)
    • Invited talk: 14
    • Report: 9&10
    • 10:50
      Coffee break
    • Invited talk: 15&16
      • 28
        Angle-Resolved Photoemission from Liquid Jets
        Speaker: Gunnar Öhrwall (MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University)
      • 29
        Water dipole orientation, Proton Transfer and Auger electron acceleration in Liquid water probed with Core-Level Spectroscopies
        Speaker: Prof. stéphane CARNIATO (LCPMR)
    • Report: 11
      • 30
        Probing Protonation State Dependent Charge Transfer-to-Solvent in L-cysteine via Sulfur Kβ Valence-to-Core Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering
        Speaker: Sayantan Sarkar (LCPMR, Sorbonne Université)
    • 12:40
      Lunch