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.

MML is devoted to analyzing and modifying the structure, dynamics and function of matter and materials by using large-scale facilities, in close collaboration with users from academia and industry. This research is 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:

• 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 particularly encourage young scientists to join the workshop and present their results.

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Mon, October 20

Registration

Welcome and Introduction

Convener: Prof. Dr. Jochen Küpper

1 Welcome & Introduction

Speakers: Jochen Küpper, Thomas Stöhlker

Plenary 1

2 DESY Photon Science

Speaker: Britta Redlich

3 rRIXS maps at X-SPEC

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

4 Heavy ions in therapy and space: recent progress at GSI

Speaker: Marco Durante

3:50 PM Coffee Break

Plenary 2

5 CMWS – Center for Molecular Water Science

Speaker: Melanie Schnell

6 NFS and CTR measurements for cation diffusion on Fe3O4 surfaces

Speaker: Steffen Tober

7 Teasing out the subtleties of protein dynamics

Speaker: Helen Ginn

Science Slam 1

8 Science Slam 1

Speaker: Selected poster presenters

Poster Session 1

9 Poster Session 1

Tue, October 21

Plenary 3

10 Inertial fusion research with HED-HIBEF at EuXFEL

Speaker: Tom Cowan

11 Focussed Ions for Materials Design

Speaker: Nico Klinger

12 Enzymes for a sustainable plastic waste management

Speaker: Gert Weber

10:00 AM Coffee Break + Transfer

Parallel: Life (RT3)

13 Gas phase SAXS of protein complexes using our MS SPIDOC platform

Speaker: Thomas Kierspel

14 3D brain tissue imaging using Compton microscopy

Speaker: Margarita Zakharova

15 Novel sample delivery for small nanoparticles and biomolecules for x-ray diffractive imaging and cryo-electron microscopy

Speaker: Madeline Memovich

16 Room-temperature X-ray fragment screening with serial crystallography

Speaker: Sven Falke

17 Photolyase: The Molecular Mechanism of DNA Repair

Speaker: Esther Lange

18 Drug development against Mac1 from SARS-CoV-2 through crystallographic fragment screening

Speaker: Frank Lennartz

12:00 PM Lunch Break

19 First online image-guided treatment of a murine tumor with radioactive ion beams

Speaker: Tamara Vitacchio

20 From cells to tissues: cryo-FIB serial lift-out X-ray tomography

Speaker: James McNally

21 Proton radiobiology and therapy on eyes

Speaker: Georgios Kourkafas

22 Towards Serial Computed Tomography of Small Organisms

Speaker: Tomas Farago

23 An AI-Supported Large Scale Morphological Study: The Medaka Inbred Kiyosu-Karlsruhe Repository

Speaker: Xiaoying Tan

24 Integrating Synchrotron X-ray Imaging and DNA Sequencing of Insects

Speaker: Cristina Vasilita

Parallel: Materials (RT2)

25 Dynamic control of X-ray core-exciton resonances by Coulomb screening in photoexcited semiconductors

Speaker: Thomas Rossi

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

Speaker: Katarzyna Siewierska

27 X-ray spectroscopy of UO2 and the QUASY project

Speaker: Mary Blankenship (KIT)

28 Pulsed Laser Deposition of multiferroic structures

Speakers: Berkin Nergis, Sondes Bauer

29 Deep Learning-Driven Grazing Incidence Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Data Processing for Nanostructure Characterization

Speaker: Yufeng Zhai

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

Speaker: Stella Gries

12:00 PM Lunch Break

31 Multilength scale investigation of the Perovskite-Bownmillerite topotactic phase transition in LaSrMnO3 thin films

Speaker: Chenyang Yin

32 QENS Study of the Interface Dynamics of Wet Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

Speaker: Matei Pascariu

33 Microstructure mapping with a white synchrotron radiation beam

Speaker: Guilherme Abreu Faria

34 Swift heavy ion irradiation effects on tailored nanostructures

Speaker: Ina Schubert

35 High-field superconductivity in UTe2

Speaker: Toni Helm

36 A high-performance all-silicon photodetector enabling telecom-wavelength detection at room temperature

Speaker: Yonder Berencen

Parallel: Matter (RT1)

37 Imaging collective quantum fluctuations of the structure of a complex molecule

Speaker: Benoît Richard (CFEL-DESY, CUI)

38 Accessing Few-Femtosecond Chiral Transients with Ultrafast Lasers

Speaker: Vincent Wannie

39 Phase transition kinetics of superionic H20 ice phases revealed by MHz XFEL heating experiments.

Speaker: Rachel Husband

40 Dynamically assisted nuclear fusion

Speakers: Ralf Schützhold, Christian Kohlfürst

41 High-purity polarimetry for high photon energies

Speaker: Berit Marx-Glowna

42 High-temperature 205Tl decay clarifies 205Pb dating in early Solar System

Speaker: Jan Glorius

12:00 PM Lunch Break

43 High-resolution absorption spectroscopy of heavy-ion-heated matter

Speaker: Zsuzsanna Major

44 Resonant soft X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy studies of metal-oxide nanoparticles in aqueous solution

Speaker: Robert Seidel

45 Nanoscale imaging of biological samples by table-top EUV and Soft X-ray microscopy

Speaker: Sophia Kaleta

46 Visualizing plasmons and ultrafast kinetic instabilities in laser-driven solids using X-ray scattering

Speakers: Pawel Ordyna, Thomas Kluge

47 CMOS compatible chip-scale sources of squeezed light

Speaker: Alexander Ulanov

48 A 52 W few-cycle, optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier for soft X-ray generation

Speaker: Daniel Walke

2:30 PM Coffee Break + Transfer

Session tba.

49 Session tba.

Speaker: tba.

Science Slam 2

50 Science Slam 2

Speaker: Selected poster presenters

Poster Session 2

51 Poster Session 2

6:45 PM Break

Workshop Dinner

Wed, October 22

Plenary 4

52 Laser-plasma interactions with broadband laser pulses

Speaker: Vincent Bagnoud

53 Nanoscale dark-field imaging in full-field transmission X-ray microscopy

Speaker: Sami Wirtensohn

54 Morphological Imaging of Large Series of Insects for Understanding Biodiversity and Evolution

Speaker: Thomas van de Kamp (IPS)

10:30 AM Coffee Break

Plenary 5

55 Resonant excitation of the nuclear clock isomer 45Sc

Speaker: Ralf Röhlsberger

56 AI-assisted data pipelines for neutron experiments

Speaker: Stefan Häusler

Concluding Remarks

57 Concluding Remarks

Speakers: Jochen Küpper, Thomas Stöhlker