Micro-symposium (Room: Sala 1)  

MS2 Advanced accelerator-driven radiation sources and their applications

Chairs: Fabio Villa - Enrico Allaria

17:00 Keynote lecture

Gabriele M. Grittani (ELI Beamlines, Prague, Czech Republic)

Compact X-ray sources based on laser wakefield electron acceleration

17:30 Invited speaker

Giovanni De Ninno (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy, and Università di Nova Gorica, Slovenia)

Advanced Capabilities of the FERMI Free-Electron Laser: Enabling Breakthrough Studies of Structure and Transient States of Matter

17:50 Invited speaker

Lucio Crincoli (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy)

EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB status and update

18:10 

Giovanni Perosa (Uppsala University, Sweden)

The Ångström Laser: a unique medium-scale X-ray facility for materials science

18:25

Michele Opromolla (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy)

Tolerance studies of the APPLE-X Undulators for the EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB AQUA Beamline

18:40

Giuseppe Penco (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)

FERMI FEL-1 upgrade from High Gain Harmonic Generation to Echo Enabled Harmonic: commissioning results and first experience with user’s operations

Micro-symposium (Room: Sala 2) 

MS8 Young scientist session

Chairs: Raffaele G Agostino - Alberto Bravin

15:30 Keynote lecture

Mario Ferraro (STAR RI and Department of Physics, University of Calabria, Rende, 87036, Italy)

μCT and SAXS analysis of optical fibers

16:00 Invited speaker

Nodoka Hara (School of Science and Technology, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy)

Reconstruction of high resolution inelastic X-ray scattering spectra collected by SASE XFEL

16:20 

Gabriele Bonano (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy)

Advancements in Liquid Flat-Jet Technology for Soft X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy at the Elettra Synchrotron

16:40 

Oreste De Luca (Laboratorio di Spettroscopia Avanzata dei Materiali, STAR IR, Università della Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy)

Floating of the topological surface state on top of a thick lead layer: The case of the Pb/Bi 2 Se 3 interface

17:00 

Lorenzo Mosesso (Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy)

Design and Optimization of the IR Beamline SISSI 2.0 at the Elettra Synchrotron Facility

17:20 

Francesca Rossi (Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)

A comprehensive multimodal and multiscale characterization of osteosarcoma human biopsies using synchrotron-based techniques

Micro-symposium (Room: Sala 1)

MS3 Operando multi-technique studies to understand functional materials

Chairs: Elisa Borfecchia – Carlo Meneghini

10:30 Keynote lecture

Diego Gianolio (Diamond Light Source

Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom)

Unveiling mechanisms of catalytic and electrochemical reactions by In-situ/Operando X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

11:00 Invited speaker

Lulu Alluhaibi (SOLARIS Synchrotron, Kraków, Poland)

ASTRA - Tender XAS Beamline at SOLARIS Synchrotron: Showcasing Unique Features

11:20 

Miran Baričić (IMM, ITODYS, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France)

A mechanistic study of the polyol synthesis of CoO with time resolved in-situ/ex-situ synchrotron light experiments

11:40

Sadaf Fatima Jafri (Department of Chemistry and INSTM, University of Turin, Turin, Italy)

MOF-derived Cerium Oxide Catalysts: NEXAFS spectroscopy unravels redox behavior and surface defectivity

12:00

Javad Rezvani (Sez. Fisica, Scuola di Scienze e Tecnologie, Universitá di Camerino, Camerino, Italy) 

EC Cell for Operando XAS investigations on X-ray opaque supports

12:20

Matteo Signorile (Department of Chemistry and INSTM, University of Turin, Turin, Italy)

Ti siting and distribution in TS-1 by combining XAS, XRD and modelling

12:40

Chiara Mazzariol (Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy)

In situ XAS investigations during high temperature annealing of Eu-doped calcium molybdate nanophosphors

Micro-symposium (Room: Sala 2) 

MS7 Open Session

Chairs: Ilaria Carlomagno - Federica Piccirilli

10:30 Keynote lecture

Silvia Marchesan (Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy)

XRD, Nano-IR, and UV-Resonance Raman shed (synchrotron) light onto supramolecular systems

11:00 Invited speaker

Giovanni De Giudici (Department of Chemical and Geological Science, University of Cagliari, Monserrato, Italy)

The microscopic side of the Environment: from measuring processes to the implication for environmental management

11:20 

Paolo Dolcet (Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy)

Research data management for large-scale facilities: the example of DAPHNE4NFDI

11:40

Mariam Maisuradze (Department of Industrial Chemistry, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)

Exploring the capabilities of 2D x-ray fluorescence imagining for the post-mortem investigation of cathode materials

12:00

Benedetta Marmiroli (Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria)

Deep X-ray lithography for biology and material science

12:20

Awad.E. A. Mohamed (School of science and technology, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy)

Advanced Spectroscopic Techniques for low Charge Atomic Ions

12:40

Angela Trapananti (School of Science and Technology, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy)

X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Investigation of Atomic Structure in Amorphous Oxides for Low-Loss Optical Coatings

Micro-symposium (Room: Sala 1)  

MS5 Static and dynamic properties of surfaces and nanostructures 

Chairs: Paola Luches - Giancarlo Panaccione

14:00 Keynote lecture

Luca Pasquini (Alma Mater - Università di Bologna, Bologna)

Charge carrier dynamics at semiconductor/catalyst interfaces studied by operando optical and x-ray absorption spectroscopies

14:30 Invited speaker

Roberto Flammini (CNR-Istituto di Struttura della Materia, Roma, Italy)

Antimonene on Bi2Se3 : An Ideal Platform for Studying the Semiconductor/Topological Insulator Interfaces

14:50 

Matteo Busato (Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy)

X-ray absorption spectroscopy probes Ca 2+ electrochemical intercalation in anatase nanotubes

15:10

Federica Ciuchi (CNR Nanotec, Rende (CS), Italy)

Chromonic liquid crystals thin films: a multi-technique approach

15:30

Riccardo Cucini (CNR-Istituto Officina dei Materiali, Basovizza (TS), Italy)

Excitation and detection of coherent magnons via Transient Grating Spectroscopy

15:50

Luca Floreano (CNR-Istituto Officina dei Materiali, Laboratorio TASC, Trieste, Italy)

Probing the vertical growth of laterally coherent coordination polymers on the axial site of metal-porphyrins by NEXAFS linear dichroism

16:10

Daniela Pacilé (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy)

Spin-Dependent π-π∗ Gap in Graphene on a Magnetic Substrate

Micro-symposium (Room: Sala 2) 

MS6 Advanced modeling of experimental data

Chairs: Paola D’Angelo - Andrea Martini 

14:00 Keynote lecture

Janis Timoshenko (Fritz-Haber Institute, Berlin)

Advanced XAS data analysis approaches for tracking transformations of working electrocatalysts

14:30 Invited speaker

Andrea Di Cicco (Sezione di Fisica, Scuola di Scienze e Tecnologie, Università di Camerino)

Advances in modelling X-ray absorption spectroscopy by Reverse Monte Carlo

14:50 

Gabriele Deplano (Chemistry Dept, University of Torino, Torino, Italy)

Cu+ mobility in Cu-SSZ-13: dynamic temperature-dependent speciation quantified by MCR-assisted XAS and QM calculations

15:10

Nodoka Hara (School of Science and Technology, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy)

Local structure of solid and liquid gold probed by Reverse Monte Carlo analysis of x-ray absorption data

15:30

Andrea Martini (Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, Germany)

Tracking the evolution of Co-based single atom catalysts for the CO2 electroreduction reaction: an operando XAS study

15:50

Francesco Tavani (Department of Chemistry, University of Rome La Sapienza, Roma, Italy)

Water harvesting at the surface of Mg-MOF-74: a combined theoretical and soft X-ray experimental study

16:10

Alessandro Tofoni (Department of Chemistry, University of Rome La Sapienza, Roma, Italy)

Understanding the coordination of the Ag+ ion in molecular solvents through EXAFS and XANES analyses combined with ab initio molecular dynamics