Condensed Matter Physics and Chemistry Workshop 2025: Diffraction and Scattering In Fundamental and Applied Energy Research

Scientific Program

Program

Day 1

Welcome & Registration

11:30

A light lunch will be offered

Energy Storage

12:00 - 14:30

Chair Persons : Pampi Saha and Jiatu Liu

David Wragg ( Institute for Energy Technology - IFE, Norway ) : Time resolved X-ray diffraction and total scattering computed tomography for understanding batteries and catalysts .

Jannes Marten Ophey ( Fraunhofer-Institut für Siliziumtechnologie, Germnay ) : Process innovations at Fraunhofer ISIT for future battery cell production.

Simon Jacques ( Finden Ltd., England ): Chemical imaging as a tool to understand performance in commercial batteries.

Hans-Georg Steinrück ( Forschungszentrum Jülich & RWTH Aachen, Germany ) : Towards surface-sensitive X-ray measurements of non-model systems.

Poster Session & Coffee

14:30 - 15:30

Energy Harvesting and Conversion

15:30 - 18:00

Chair Persons : Arka Bikash Dey and Matthias Schwartzkopf

Kun Sun ( Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany ) : In-Situ and Operando Studies of Perovskite Solar Cells.

Benedikt Sochor ( Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Germany ) : Fully Sprayed Organic Thermoelectrics for Energy Harvesting Applications.

Michael Anthony Quintero ( Aarhus University, Denmark ) :
From Synthesis to Scattering: Probing Intrinsic Properties in Energy-Relevant Materials.

Michael Störmer ( Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany ) : Thermal stability of hafnia-layers in thermophotovoltaic applications.

Dinner

18:00

Day 2

Catalysis

9:00 - 11:30

Chair Persons : Fernando Igoa and Sylvio Haas

Simone Mascotto ( University of Kobelenz, Germany ) : Shapeshifting bimetallic nanoparticles with switching catalytic performance.

Paula Abdala ( ETH Zürich, Switzerland ) : Uncovering the Structure of Solid Catalysts Across Scales Using X-Rays.

Kamila Iskhakova ( Karlsruhe Institute of Technology & Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Germany ) : Insight into Nb2O5 pellets through XRD-CT lens.

Dorota Koziej ( University of Hamburg, Germany ) : In situ X-Ray Synchrotron Methods for Exploring the Length Scale in Nanostructured Materials and Devices.

Lunch

11:30 - 12:30

Energy Transport

12:30 - 15:00

Chair Persons : Martin v. Zimmermann and Ann-Christin Dippel

Emil Bozin ( Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia ) : High-Temperature Polaronic Lattice Distortions and Charge Ordering in 1T-TaS2.

Alexander Mistonov ( Technischen Universität Dresden, Germany ) : High-Energy X-ray Diffraction at Ultralow Temperatures in the Quantum Spin Liquid Candidate PbCuTe₂O₆.

Julia Küspert ( The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility - ESRF, France ) : Tuning Stripe Order in La-Based Cuprates with Temperature, Magnetic Field, and Uniaxial Stress.

Moritz Hoesch ( Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Germany ) : Pseudogap in Quasionedimensional Rb2Mo6Se6 .