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

Registration

Welcome and Introduction

Convener: 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 NN

Speaker: Marco Durante

3:50 PM Coffee Break

Plenary 2

5 Inertial fusion research with HED-HIBEF at EuXFEL

Speaker: Tom Cowan

6 NFS and CTR measurements for cation diffusion on Fe3O4 surfaces

Speaker: Steffen Tober

7 NN

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 Resonant excitation of the nuclear clock isomer 45Sc Or

Speaker: Ralf Röhlsberger

11 Focussed Ions for Materials Design

Speaker: Nico Klinger

12 NN

Speaker: Gert Weber

10:30 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 cryo-electron microscopy

Speakers: Kevin Janson, Madeline Memovich

16 REGAE or HiPhaX drug screening

Speaker: Alke Meents

17 Photolyase

Speakers: Bjarne Klopprogge, Esther Lange

18 HZB 1 - tba

Speaker: Frank Lennartz

12:30 PM Lunch Break

19 HZB 2 - tba

Speaker: Laila Benz

20 HZB 3 - tba

Speaker: Michael Dhyr

21 Eye tumor therapy

Speaker: HZB

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 Vaslita

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 NN - DESY 1

Speaker: Lydia Bachmann

30 NN - DESY 2

Speaker: Thomas Keller

12:30 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

38 Chiral Molecules

Speaker: Vincent Wannie

39 CMOS compatible chip-scale sources of squeezed light

Speaker: Alexander Ulanov

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

Speaker: Rachel Husband

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

Speakers: Pawel Ordyna, Thomas Kluge

42 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

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

Speaker: Sophia Kaleta

44 High-purity polarimetry for high photon energies

Speaker: Berit Marx-Glowna

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

Speaker: Jan Glorius

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

Speaker: Zsuzsanna Major

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

Speaker: Robert Seidel

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

Speaker: Daniel Walke

3:00 PM Coffee Break + Transfer

"Special Session"

49 Opening words

Speaker: Jochen Küpper

50 Laudatio

Speaker: Helmut Dosch

51 Formal act

Speaker: Jochen Küpper

52 Scientific presentation

Speaker: tba

53 MML in MATTER

Speaker: Sebastian Schmidt

Science Slam 2

54 Science Slam 2

Speaker: Selected poster presenters

Poster Session 2

55 Poster Session 2

7:15 PM Break

Workshop Dinner

Wed, October 22

Plenary 4

56 Laser-plasma interactions with broadband laser pulses

Speaker: Vincent Bagnoud

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

Speaker: Sami Wirtensohn

58 NN

Speaker: Thomas van de Kamp (IPS)

10:30 AM Coffee Break

Plenary 5

59 CMWS – Center for Molecular Water Science

Speaker: Melanie Schnell

60 AI-assisted data pipelines for neutron experiments

Speaker: Stefan Häusler

61 NN - RT3

Concluding Remarks

62 Concluding Remarks

Speakers: Jochen Küpper, Thomas Stöhlker