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

The program MML is devoted to analyzing and modifying the structure, dynamics and function of matter and materials by the use of large-scale facilities in close collaboration with users from academic science and industry. This research is closely connected to the user operation of a wide range of research infrastructures encompassing photon-, neutron, and ion sources, high-magnetic field facilities and high-power lasers.

The main purpose of the workshop is to discuss forefront science done at our large-scale facilities with the aim to strengthen or 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 will consist of review talks covering the most recent achievements and highlights, contributed talks, and poster presentations. For the contributed talks, dedicated parallel sessions will be organized providing also the opportunity to discuss our current research plans with particular focus on cross-center activities. These parallel sessions are organized following our three research topics:

• Matter – Dynamics, Mechanisms and Control  
• Materials – Quantum, Complex and Functional Materials 
• Life Sciences – 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 encourage in particular young scientists to join the workshop and to present their results.

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Mon, October 20

12:00 PM → 2:00 PM Registration

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

Convener: Jochen Küpper

2:00 PM Welcome & Introduction

Speakers: Jochen Küpper, Thomas Stöhlker

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 NN

Speaker: Marco Durante

3:50 PM → 4:20 PM Coffee Break

4:20 PM → 5:50 PM Plenary 2

4:20 PM Inertial fusion research with HED-HIBEF at EuXFEL

Speaker: Tom Cowan

4:50 PM NFS and CTR measurements for cation diffusion on Fe3O4 surfaces

Speaker: Steffen Tober

5:20 PM NN

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

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Plenary 3

9:00 AM Resonant excitation of the nuclear clock isomer 45Sc Or

Speaker: Ralf Röhlsberger

9:30 AM Focussed Ions for Materials Design

Speaker: Nico Klinger

10:00 AM NN

Speaker: Gert Weber

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break + Transfer

11:00 AM → 3:00 PM Parallel: Life (RT3)

11:00 AM Gas phase SAXS of protein complexes using our MS SPIDOC platform

Speaker: Thomas Kierspel

11:15 AM 3D brain tissue imaging using Compton microscopy

Speaker: Margarita Zakharova

11:30 AM Novel sample delivery for cryo-electron microscopy

Speakers: Kevin Janson, Madeline Memovich

11:45 AM REGAE or HiPhaX drug screening

Speaker: Alke Meents

12:00 PM Photolyase

Speakers: Bjarne Klopprogge, Esther Lange

12:15 PM HZB 1 - tba

Speaker: Frank Lennartz

12:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM HZB 2 - tba

Speaker: Laila Benz

1:45 PM HZB 3 - tba

Speaker: Michael Dhyr

2:00 PM Eye tumor therapy

Speaker: HZB

2:15 PM Towards Serial Computed Tomography of Small Organisms

Speaker: Tomas Farago

2:30 PM An AI-Supported Large Scale Morphological Study: The Medaka Inbred Kiyosu-Karlsruhe Repository

Speaker: Xiaoying Tan

2:45 PM Integrating Synchrotron X-ray Imaging and DNA Sequencing of Insects

Speaker: Cristina Vaslita

11:00 AM → 3:00 PM Parallel: Materials (RT2)

11:00 AM Dynamic control of X-ray core-exciton resonances by Coulomb screening in photoexcited semiconductors

Speaker: Thomas Rossi

11:15 AM Orbital-overlap-driven hybridization in 3d-transition metal perovskite oxides LaMO3 (M = Ti-Ni) and La2CuO4

Speaker: Katarzyna Siewierska

11:30 AM X-ray spectroscopy of UO2 and the QUASY project

Speaker: Mary Blankenship (KIT)

11:45 AM Pulsed Laser Deposition of multiferroic structures

Speakers: Berkin Nergis, Sondes Bauer

12:00 PM NN - DESY 1

Speaker: Lydia Bachmann

12:15 PM NN - DESY 2

Speaker: Thomas Keller

12:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM Multilength scale investigation of the Perovskite-Bownmillerite topotactic phase transition in LaSrMnO3 thin films

Speaker: Chenyang Yin

1:45 PM QENS Study of the Interface Dynamics of Wet Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

Speaker: Matei Pascariu

2:00 PM Microstructure mapping with a white synchrotron radiation beam

Speaker: Guilherme Abreu Faria

2:15 PM Swift heavy ion irradiation effects on tailored nanostructures

Speaker: Ina Schubert

2:30 PM High-field superconductivity in UTe2

Speaker: Toni Helm

2:45 PM A high-performance all-silicon photodetector enabling telecom-wavelength detection at room temperature

Speaker: Yonder Berencen

11:00 AM → 3:00 PM Parallel: Matter (RT1)

11:00 AM Imaging collective quantum fluctuations of the structure of a complex molecule

Speaker: Benoît Richard

11:15 AM Chiral Molecules

Speaker: Vincent Wannie

11:30 AM CMOS compatible chip-scale sources of squeezed light

Speaker: Alexander Ulanov

11:45 AM Phase transition kinetics of superionic H20 ice phases revealed by MHz XFEL heating experiments.

Speaker: Rachel Husband

12:00 PM Visualizing plasmons and ultrafast kinetic instabilities in laser-driven solids using X-ray scattering

Speakers: Pawel Ordyna, Thomas Kluge

12:15 PM Strong field physics / Dynamically assisted nuclear fusion / High precision cross section relevant for solar CNO burn cycle

Speakers: Christian Kohlfürst, D. Bemmerer, Ralf Schützhold

12:30 PM Lunch Break

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

Speaker: Sophia Kaleta

1:45 PM High-purity polarimetry for high photon energies

Speaker: Berit Marx-Glowna

2:00 PM High-temperature 205Tl decay clarifies 205Pb dating in early Solar System

Speaker: Jan Glorius

2:15 PM High-resolution absorption spectroscopy of heavy-ion-heated matter

Speaker: Zsuzsanna Major

2:30 PM Resonant soft X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy studies of metal-oxide nanoparticles in aqueous solution

Speaker: Robert Seidel

2:45 PM A 52 W few-cycle, optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier for soft X-ray generation

Speaker: Daniel Walke

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

3:30 PM → 5:15 PM "Special Session"

3:30 PM Opening words

Speaker: Jochen Küpper

3:35 PM Laudatio

Speaker: Helmut Dosch

4:05 PM Formal act

Speaker: Jochen Küpper

4:15 PM Scientific presentation

Speaker: tba

4:45 PM MML in MATTER

Speaker: Sebastian Schmidt

5:15 PM → 5:45 PM Science Slam 2

5:15 PM Science Slam 2

Speaker: Selected poster presenters

5:45 PM → 7:15 PM Poster Session 2

5:45 PM Poster Session 2

7:15 PM → 8:00 PM Break

8:00 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

10:00 AM NN

Speaker: Thomas van de Kamp (IPS)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Plenary 5

11:00 AM CMWS – Center for Molecular Water Science

Speaker: Melanie Schnell

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

Speaker: Stefan Häusler

12:00 PM NN - RT3

12:30 PM → 1:00 PM Concluding Remarks

12:30 PM Concluding Remarks

Speakers: Jochen Küpper, Thomas Stöhlker