5th Science Workshop of the Program MML

Oct 20, 2025, 12:00 PM → Oct 22, 2025, 2:00 PM Europe/Berlin

Johann-Gottfried-Tulla-Hörsaal (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Clemens Heske (IPS and ITCP), Jochen Küpper, Franz X. Kärtner, Jochen Wosnitza, Meytal Landau

The 5th Science Workshop of the Program “From Matter to Materials and Life” (MML) within the Research Field "Helmholtz Matter" will be an in-presence meeting at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). It will take place in the Johann-Gottfried-Tulla-Hörsaal of KIT (Englerstraße 11, 76131 Karlsruhe), October 20-22, 2025.

Tackling key societal challenges by exploring the structure, dynamics, and function of matter, materials, and the basis of life from fundamental science toward application using, developing, and operating large-scale user facilities." This research is performed in close collaboration with users from academia and industry and closely connected to the user operation of a wide range of research infrastructures, encompassing photon, neutron, and ion sources, as well as high-magnetic field facilities and high-power lasers.

The main purpose of the workshop is to discuss forefront science done at our facilities, with the aim to strengthen/establish cooperations between research groups at the participating centers and profit from the complementary possibilities offered by our various probes. Moreover, selected examples for the further development of our large-scale facilities will be presented and information about the latest developments will be provided. 

The scientific program, covering the most recent achievements and highlights, will consist of review and contributed talks, science slams, as well as poster presentations. For the contributed talks, dedicated parallel sessions will provide also the opportunity to discuss our current research with particular focus on cross-center activities. These parallel sessions are organized following our three research topics:

• MML-Matter: Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Control  
• MML-Materials: Fundamentals, Function, and Processes
• MML-Life: Building Blocks of Life – Structure and Function 

Moreover, opportunities will be provided to present and discuss the progress of our cross-cutting activities, which are pursued with colleagues from our neighboring research programs and research fields. Besides the experts in these field, we particularly encourage young scientists to join the workshop and present their results.

Posters_MML_Workshop_2025.pdf

Privacy_Policy_MML_Workshop.pdf

Mon, October 20

12:00 PM → 2:00 PM Registration

2:00 PM → 2:20 PM Welcome and Introduction

2:00 PM Welcome & Introduction

Speaker: Jochen Küpper (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

2:20 PM → 3:50 PM Plenary 1

2:20 PM DESY Photon Science

Speaker: Britta Redlich

2:50 PM rRIXS maps at X-SPEC

Speaker: Lothar Weinhardt (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

3:20 PM Heavy ions in therapy and space: recent progress at GSI

Speaker: Marco Durante (GSI)

Durante_MML.pptx

3:50 PM → 4:20 PM Coffee Break

4:20 PM → 5:50 PM Plenary 2

4:20 PM CMWS – Center for Molecular Water Science

Speaker: Patrick Huber (DESY FS-CIMMS)

4:50 PM Near-Surface Cation Diffusion in Magnetite studied by advanced Synchrotron and Neutron Methods

Speaker: Steffen Tober (DESY FS-PETRA-D)

5:20 PM Teasing out the subtleties of protein dynamics

Speaker: Helen Ginn

5:50 PM → 6:20 PM Science Slam 1

5:50 PM Science Slam 1

Speaker: Selected poster presenters

6:20 PM → 7:50 PM Poster Session 1

6:20 PM Poster Session 1

Tue, October 21

8:30 AM → 10:00 AM Plenary 3

8:30 AM Inertial fusion research with HED-HIBEF at EuXFEL

Speaker: Tom Cowan

9:00 AM Focussed Ions for Materials Design

Speaker: Nico Klingner

Abstract_Klingner.pdf

9:30 AM Enzymes for a sustainable plastic waste management

Speaker: Gert Weber (HZB)

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Coffee Break + Transfer

10:30 AM → 2:30 PM Parallel: Life (RT3)

10:30 AM Gas phase SAXS of protein complexes using our MS SPIDOC platform

Speaker: Thomas Kierspel

10:45 AM 3D brain tissue imaging using Compton microscopy

Speaker: Margarita Zakharova (DESY, CFEL)

11:00 AM Novel sample delivery for small nanoparticles and biomolecules for x-ray diffractive imaging and cryo-electron microscopy

Speaker: Madeline Memovich (DESY/CFEL)

11:15 AM Room-temperature X-ray fragment screening with serial crystallography

Speaker: Sven Falke (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

11:30 AM Photolyase: The Molecular Mechanism of DNA Repair

Speaker: Esther Lange

11:45 AM Drug development against Mac1 from SARS-CoV-2 through crystallographic fragment screening

Speaker: Frank Lennartz (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)

12:00 PM Lunch Break

1:00 PM First online image-guided treatment of a murine tumor with radioactive ion beams

Speaker: Tamara Vitacchio

MML presentation Vitacchio.pptx

1:15 PM From cells to tissues: cryo-FIB serial lift-out X-ray tomography

Speaker: James McNally

1:30 PM Proton radiobiology and therapy on eyes

Speaker: Georgios Kourkafas (HZB)

1:45 PM Towards Serial Computed Tomography of Small Organisms

Speaker: Tomas Farago (KIT)

2:00 PM An AI-Supported Large Scale Morphological Study: The Medaka Inbred Kiyosu-Karlsruhe Repository

Speaker: Xiaoying Tan (KIT-IPS)

2:15 PM Integrating Synchrotron X-ray Imaging and DNA Sequencing of Insects

Speaker: Cristina Vasilita (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

10:30 AM → 2:30 PM Parallel: Materials (RT2)

10:30 AM Ultrafast Dynamic Screening in Insulators: Tuning and Probing Electronic Properties

Speaker: Thomas Rossi (Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie)

10:45 AM X-ray spectroscopy of UO2 and the QUASY project

Speaker: Mary Blankenship (KIT)

11:00 AM Pulsed Laser Deposition of multiferroic structures

Speakers: Berkin Nergis (Institute for Photon Science and Synchrotron Radiation, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, D-76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany), Sondes Bauer

11:15 AM Deep Learning-Driven Grazing Incidence Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Data Processing for Nanostructure Characterization

Speaker: Yufeng Zhai (DESY)

11:30 AM Water in Hierarchically Porous Silicon: An In-Situ X-ray Imaging Study

Speaker: Stella Gries (DESY und TU-Hamburg)

11:45 AM Multilength scale investigation of the Perovskite-Bownmillerite topotactic phase transition in LaSrMnO3 thin films

Speaker: Chenyang Yin

12:00 PM Lunch Break

1:00 PM QENS Study of the Interface Dynamics of Wet Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

Speaker: Matei Pascariu (Forschungszentrum Jülich, JCNS-3)

1:15 PM Microstructure mapping with a white synchrotron radiation beam

Speaker: Guilherme Abreu Faria

1:30 PM Swift heavy ion irradiation effects on tailored nanostructures

Speaker: Ina Schubert (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)

1:45 PM High-field superconductivity in UTe2

Speaker: Toni Helm (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

2:00 PM A high-performance all-silicon photodetector enabling telecom-wavelength detection at room temperature

Speaker: Yonder Berencén (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf)

2:15 PM Orbital-overlap-driven hybridization in 3d-transition metal perovskite oxides LaMO3 (M = Ti-Ni) and La2CuO4

Speaker: Katarzyna Siewierska

10:30 AM → 2:30 PM Parallel: Matter (RT1)

10:30 AM Imaging collective quantum fluctuations of the structure of a complex molecule

Speaker: Benoît Richard (CFEL-DESY, CUI)

10:45 AM Accessing Few-Femtosecond Chiral Transients with Ultrafast Lasers

Speaker: Vincent Wanie (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY)

11:00 AM Phase transition kinetics of superionic H20 ice phases revealed by MHz XFEL heating experiments.

Speaker: Rachel Husband

11:15 AM Dynamically assisted nuclear fusion

Speakers: Ralf Schützhold, Christian Kohlfürst (HZDR)

11:30 AM High-purity polarimetry for high photon energies

Speaker: Berit Marx-Glowna

11:45 AM High-temperature 205Tl decay clarifies 205Pb dating in early Solar System

Speaker: Jan Glorius (GSI Helmhotzzentrum)

12:00 PM Lunch Break

1:00 PM High-resolution absorption spectroscopy of heavy-ion-heated matter

Speaker: Zsuzsanna Major (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)

1:15 PM Resonant soft X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy studies of metal-oxide nanoparticles in aqueous solution

Speaker: Robert Seidel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)

1:30 PM Nanoscale imaging of biological samples by table-top EUV and Soft X-ray microscopy

Speaker: Sophia Kaleta

1:45 PM Visualizing plasmons and ultrafast kinetic instabilities in laser-driven solids using X-ray scattering

Speakers: Pawel Ordyna, Thomas Kluge

2:00 PM CMOS compatible chip-scale sources of squeezed light

Speaker: Alexander Ulanov

2:15 PM A 52 W few-cycle, optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier for soft X-ray generation

Speaker: Daniel Walke (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Coffee Break + Transfer

3:00 PM → 4:45 PM MML Award Ceremony

3:00 PM Introduction to the Session

Speakers: Prof. Jochen Küpper (MML) (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY & Helmholtz program MATTER-MML), Edgar Weckert

3:15 PM From the Atomic to the Nuclear Clock

Speaker: Peter Thirolf (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich)

2025-Thirolf-KIT-MML-229mTh.pptx

4:45 PM → 5:15 PM Science Slam 2

4:45 PM Science Slam 2

Speaker: Selected poster presenters

5:15 PM → 6:45 PM Poster Session 2

5:15 PM Poster Session 2

6:45 PM → 7:30 PM Break

7:30 PM → 10:00 PM Workshop Dinner

Wed, October 22

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Plenary 4

9:00 AM Laser-plasma interactions with broadband laser pulses

Speaker: Vincent Bagnoud

9:30 AM Nanoscale dark-field imaging in full-field transmission X-ray microscopy

Speaker: Sami Wirtensohn (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon)

10:00 AM Morphological Imaging of Large Series of Insects for Understanding Biodiversity and Evolution

Speaker: Thomas van de Kamp (IPS)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Plenary 5

11:00 AM Resonant excitation of the nuclear clock isomer 45Sc

Speaker: Ralf Röhlsberger

11:30 AM AI-assisted data pipelines for neutron experiments

Speaker: Stefan Häusler (FZ Jülich GmbH)

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM Concluding Remarks

12:00 PM Concluding Remarks

Speaker: Prof. Jochen Küpper (MML) (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY & Helmholtz program MATTER-MML)