XI AUSE Conference and VI ALBA Users Meeting

2 Sept 2024, 11:00 → 6 Sept 2024, 15:30 Europe/Madrid

Aula E (Edificio del Aulario, Facultad de Geología, Universidad de Oviedo (Oviedo, Spain))

Caterina Biscari (ALBA Synchrotron Director), Inés Muñoz ((AUSE President))

The XI AUSE Conference and VI ALBA Users Meeting jointly organised by AUSE - the Spanish Synchrotron and FEL Users Association - and the ALBA Synchrotron, will be held at the premises of the Facultad de Geologia de la Universidad de Oviedo (Spain) from Monday, 2 of September to Thursday, 5 of September 2024. It will be followed by a satellite workshop organized in the morning of Friday, 6 of September on the Coherent Diffraction Imaging beamline (CoDI) at ALBA II.

Looking forward to meeting all of you at Oviedo in September 2024!

Sincerely yours,

Caterina Biscari (Conference co-chair, ALBA director)

Inés Muñoz (Conference co-chair, AUSE president)

Aurelio Hierro (Chair of the local organizing committee, Universidad de Oviedo)

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Check out the Participants List

Book-of-Abstracts.pdf

Program-at-glance

Program-Booklet

Monday, 2 September

11:00 → 13:00 Registration & Sponsor exhibition

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch, Poster & Sponsor exhibition

14:30 → 14:35 Opening

Speaker: Irene Diaz Rodriguez, Vicerrectora de Investigacion, Universidad de Oviedo

14:35 → 14:45 Welcome

Speaker: Caterina Biscari (ALBA director) Ines Muñoz (AUSE president)

14:45 → 15:30 Plenary I: Diamond Light Source: Science and updates on the Diamond-II upgrade

Speaker: Gianluigi A. Botton, CEO Diamond Light Source

2024 AUSE invited Botton talk .pdf

15:30 → 16:00 A (Keynote)- Soft Condensed Matter | Synchrotron radiation in polymer science: techniques and sample environments

Keynote

Speaker: Mari Cruz García-Gutiérrez, IEM-CSIC

15:30 → 16:00 B (Keynote)- Advanced Materials for Energy and Sustainable Applications | Understanding physical and chemical properties of energy storage materials with synchrotron radiation

Speaker: Enrique G. Michel (IFIMAC, UAM)

AUSE 2024 Oviedo_EGMichel_s.pdf

16:00 → 16:20 A - Soft Condensed Matter: Structure development during “in-operando”3-D printing using simultaneous Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering measurements

Speaker: Esther Rebollar (IQF-Blas Cabrera, CSIC)

16:00 → 16:20 B - Advanced Materials for Energy and Sustainable Applications: Controlling the number of coordinatively unsaturated iridium oxide active centers for optimize the electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction

Speaker: Juan J. Velazco Vélez (ALBA Synchrotron)

JuanVelasco_20240902__XI AUSE_Oviedo.pdf

16:20 → 16:40 A - Soft Condensed Matter: Monitoring the structural transformation on thin films of an Asymmetric Benzothieno[3,2‑b][1]-benzothiophene Derivative

Speaker: Alba Cazorla Moreno (ICMAB-CSIC)

Alba Cazorla - AUSE 2024.pdf

16:20 → 16:40 Session B - Advanced Materials for Energy and Sustainable Applications: Synchrotron radiation to solve the puzzle of capacity limitation in Aqueous Zn-MnO2 Batteries

Speaker: Cheng Liu (ICMAB-CSIC)

ChengLiu_02_09_2024_Oviedo.pdf

16:40 → 17:00 A - Soft Condensed Matter: Structure and pressure gap in the NO reduction on Rh studied by ambient-pressure HAXPES

Speaker: Fernando Garcia Martinez (DESY)

16:40 → 17:00 B - Advanced Materials for Energy and Sustainable Applications: The role of the local structural properties in the electrochemical characteristics of Na1-xFe1-yNiyO2

Speaker: Wojciech Olszewski (University of Bialystok)

17:00 → 17:20 News from ESUO and the NEPHEWS project

Speaker: Wojciech Gawelda (AUSE) Barbara Calisto (ALBA)

AUSE-ALBA-UM-Oviedo2024_ESUO-presentation.pdf

NEPHEWS_BCalisto_20240902.pdf

17:20 → 18:00 AUSE Assembly

18:00 → 19:00 Poster Session, Coffee & Sponsor exhibition

Tuesday, 3 September

09:00 → 09:45 Plenary II | XChem: High throughput crystallographic fragment screening and structure enabled fragment progression

Speaker: Blake H. Balcomb (DLS)

09:45 → 10:15 A (Keynote)- Drug Discovery | Time-resolved Crystallography: A New Frontier in Drug Discovery

Speaker: Jose Manuel Martin (IQFR-CSIC)

AUSE-ALBA_Sept_3_2024_JMMG.pdf

09:45 → 10:15 B (Keynote)- In-situ and in-operando processes | Femtosecond soft X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy on solids at the European XFEL

Speaker: Manuel Izquierdo (EuXFEL)

10:15 → 10:35 A - Drug Discovery: Structural approaches to identify novel inhibitors of IMP dehydrogenase enzymes

Speaker: Ruben Martínez-Buey (Universidad de Salamanca)

RubenMartinez_AUSE_Oviedo_Sept2024_short.pdf

10:15 → 10:35 B - In-situ and in-operando processes: Catalytic oxidation of CO by step and kink sites of curved Au crystal

Speaker: Anna Makarova (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)

10:35 → 10:55 A - Drug Discovery: Fostering innovation in drug discovery by automated data collection and X-ray based fragment screening at ALBA

Speaker: Stefano Pernigo (ALBA)

10:35 → 10:55 B - In-situ and in-operando processes: In situ powder diffraction as a key for understanding materials behavior in non-ambient atmosphere

Speaker: Alexander Missyul (ALBA)

10:55 → 11:15 A - Drug Discovery: Combating Friedreich’s Ataxia with Nanobodies: Structural Characterization of complexes with Frataxin

Speaker: Alba Garay Álvarez (IQF Blas Cabrera-CSIC)

10:55 → 11:15 B - In-situ and in-operando processes: The role of anharmonicity on the thermoelectric properties of half-Heusler alloys

Speaker: Cristina Echevarria Bonet (Universidad de Oviedo)

Echevarria_AUSE2024.pdf

11:15 → 11:40 Coffee Break & Sponsor exhibition

11:40 → 12:25 Plenary III: Synthetic control of chemical complexity in reticular frameworks

Speaker: Carlos Martí-Gastaldo (ICMol)

12:25 → 12:55 Keynote | BM25-SpLine at the ESRF: Status and perspectives

Speaker: Juan Rubio (BM25-SpLine)

12:55 → 13:15 AUSE PhD Thesis Award: Advanced Quantitative Synchrotron X-ray Imaging of Cement Micro- and Meso- Structures

Speaker: Shiva Shirani (University of Malaga)

13:15 → 13:35 ALBA PhD Thesis Award: Inhomogeneity and disorder in ultrafast phase transitions

Speaker: Daniel Perez Salinas (ALBA Synchrotron)

13:35 → 15:00 Lunch, Poster & Sponsor exhibition

15:00 → 15:45 Plenary IV: Investigations in three-dimensional nanomagnetism using X-ray techniques.

Speaker: Amalio Fernández-Pacheco (TU Wien)

FernandezPacheco AUSE Oviedo.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Keynote | Neutron scattering as a complementary tool for X-Ray Synchrotron Radiation techniques

Speaker: Antonio Urbina (Universidad P. Navarra, SETN)

16:15 → 17:00 Poster Session, Coffee & Sponsor exhibition

17:00 → 17:30 A (Keynote)- Biotechnology & Biological Sciences: Advancements in Biological Sciences at the European Synchrotron

Speaker: Montserrat Soler-Lopez (ESRF)

17:00 → 17:30 B (Keynote)- Electronic and Magnetic Matter | Unveiling the magnetic secrets of cylindrical nanowires with X-ray microscopy

Speaker: Lucas Perez (UCM)

17:30 → 17:50 A - Biotechnology & Biological Sciences: FaXToR: Fast X-ray TomogRaphy Beamline for ALBA

Speaker: Alessandra Patera (ALBA)

17:30 → 17:50 B - Electronic and Magnetic Matter: Spin polarized bulk bands with large energy splitting due to Dresselhaus effect in ZnTe(110)

Speaker: Ji Dai (ALBA)

17:50 → 18:10 A - Biotechnology & Biological Sciences: Synchrotron-based phase contrast tomography for cardiovascular applications: from rodents to humans

Speaker: Hector Dejea (ESRF)

20240903_AUSE_Oviedo_Dejea.pdf

17:50 → 18:10 B - Electronic and Magnetic Matter: Structural Analysis by High-Resolution X-Ray Diffraction of Ferromagnetic Lu2Fe17 Melt-Spun Ribbons

Speaker: José Luis Garrido Álvarez (Universidad de Oviedo)

18:10 → 18:30 B - Electronic and Magnetic Matter: Experimental observation of a magnetically induced warping transition in a topological insulator mediated by rare-earth surface dopants using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

Speaker: Beatriz Muñiz Cano (IMDEA Nanociencia)

BMC_MTIs_warping_pdf_AUSE_meeting_2.pdf

18:10 → 18:30 not scheduled

Wednesday, 4 September

09:00 → 09:45 Plenary V: ALBA and its future, ALBA II

Speaker: Caterina Biscari (ALBA)

ALBA and its future, ALBA II.pptx

09:45 → 10:25 Photopharmacology: light and molecules for dynamic structural crystallography

Speaker: Amadeu Llebaria (MCS, IQAC-CSIC)

10:25 → 11:05 How ARPES can contribute in advanced materials research?

Speaker: Arantzazu Mascaraque (UCM)

11:05 → 11:30 Coffee Break & Sponsor exhibition

11:30 → 12:10 Crystal Chemistry of Important Polyanionic Materials used as Cathodes in Sodium-Ion Batteries: the decisive impact of Synchrotron X-Ray diffraction

Speaker: Christian Masquelier (UPJV, LRCS)

Masquelier_Oviedo_ALBA_Sept2024_shared.pdf

12:10 → 12:50 ALBA User meeting: Two-dimensional Layered Hydroxides for Energy Applications

Speaker: Gonzalo Abellan (ICMol, UV)

12:50 → 13:30 In-situ X-Ray Diffraction revealing the reaction mechanism of ultrafast Transient Liquid Assisted Growth of superconducting thin films

Speaker: Elzbieta Pach (ICMAB-CSIC)

AUSE 2024 EPach.pdf

13:30 → 15:00 Lunch, Poster & Sponsor exhibition

15:00 → 15:25 ALBA session - Updates from the Life Sciences Section

Speaker: Judith Juanhuix (ALBA)

15:25 → 15:50 ALBA session - Updates from the Electronic and Magnetic Structure of Matter Section

Speaker: Manuel Valvidares (ALBA)

15:50 → 16:15 ALBA session - Updates from the CHEMAT Section, The Beamline Upgrade Program

Speaker: Carlo Marini (ALBA)

16:15 → 16:40 ALBA Session - Updates from the IMM Section

Speaker: Lucia Aballe (ALBA)

16:40 → 17:10 Coffee Break & Sponsor exhibition

17:10 → 17:30 A - Materials Science: Building a Materials Acceleration Platform (MAP) for battery materials research: Automated module for the synthesis of inorganic compounds

Speaker: Iciar Monterrubio (CIC energiGUNE)

AUSE24_I_Monterrubio_web.pdf

17:10 → 17:30 B - Life Sciences: Multiscale connectomics for neuroevolution: X-Ray tomography and FIBSEM

Speaker: Marc Corrales (MRC-LMB)

17:30 → 17:50 A - Materials Science: Near ambient pressure oxidation of silver in the presence of steps: electrophilic oxygen and sulphur impurities

Speaker: Frederik Schiller (Centro de Física de Materiales)

17:30 → 17:50 B - Life Sciences: Macromolecular and structural changes in glioblastoma cell line after carbon dots and riluzole treatments: Synchrotron-based FTIR and X-ray Microscopy approach

Speaker: Tanja Ducic (ALBA)

AUSE 2024 TanjaDucic.pdf

17:50 → 18:10 A - Materials Science: 4D nanoimaging of Portland cement hydration

Speaker: Miguel Ángel García Aranda (Universidad de Malaga)

17:50 → 18:30 B - Life Sciences: Round Table on Life Sciences

18:10 → 18:30 A - Materials Science:The barocaloric effect in the FeII(5NO2-pap)2 spin-crossover complex via low-pressure synchrotron powder X-ray diffraction

Speaker: Gloria Subias-Peruga (INMA, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza)

AUSE2024_GSubias_talk.pdf

20:00 → 20:20 Conference dinner at Restaurant Ruaquince

Thursday, 5 September

09:00 → 09:45 Plenary VI: Design of processable polymeric carbon nitride materials for catalytic applications

Speaker: Santiago Garcia-Granda (CINN-CSIC, U. Oviedo and IUCr president)

09:45 → 10:05 A - Magnetism: Searching for monolayer flakes at LOREA

Speaker: Massimo Tallarida (ALBA)

09:45 → 10:05 B - Multi-modal studies: Multi-scale and multimodal imaging combining NanoSIMS and Synchrotron techniques

Speaker: Iris Henríquez Valido (UAB-IPREM)

10:05 → 10:25 A - Magnetism: The transition of magnetic textures from quasi 2D to 3D microstructures

Speaker: A. Estela Herguedas-Alonso (Universidad de Oviedo)

10:05 → 10:25 B - Multi-modal studies: XPS, XAFS, XRD and FTIR Operando Studies of a Vanadium based (H2V3O8) Lithium-ion Battery at ALBA beamlines

Speaker: Ignacio José Villar García (CEU San Pablo University)

10:25 → 10:45 A - Magnetism: Engineering of organolanthanide sandwich complexes by on-surface synthesis

Speaker: Sofia de Oliveira Parreiras (IMDEA Nanociencia)

SofiaOliveira_AUSE_2024_organolanthanide_sandwiches.pdf

10:25 → 10:45 B - Multi-modal studies: Ni and Fe Doped Graphene Aerogels Prepared by Freeze-Casting: Investigating the Effect of Fe through In Situ Synchrotron Characterization

Speaker: María González Ingelmo (INCAR-CSIC)

10:45 → 11:05 A - Magnetism: Electronic properties of Bismuth monolayers grown on metallic substrates

Speaker: Kevin Garcia Diez (ICN2-ALBA)

10:45 → 11:05 B - Multi-modal studies: Impact of Co-doping on Pd/Al2O3 Catalysts for Methane Oxidation: A Characterization Study

Speaker: Laia Pascua Solé (UPC)

11:05 → 11:30 Coffee Break & Sponsor exhibition

11:30 → 11:50 More Than Data: Computing Services for Synchrotron Users

Speaker: Oscar Matilla (ALBA)

More_ Than_Data_2024_AUSE.pdf

11:50 → 12:10 ALBA session: Industrial Program

Speaker: Barbara Calisto (ALBA)

ILO_BCalisto_20240902.pdf

12:10 → 13:30 ALBA session - Round Table: The Next Generation Light Sources

Speaker: Moderator: Klaus Attenkofer (ALBA)

13:30 → 15:00 Group Photo, Lunch, Poster & Sponsor exhibition

15:00 → 15:45 Plenary VII: Using LCLS to study ultrafast structural and electronic changes in bio and condensed phase chemistry systems

Speaker: Roberto Alonso Mori (LCLS-SLAC)

15:45 → 16:05 XFEL session: Capturing ultrafast molecular motions and lattice dynamic response in a spin crossover thin film using femtosecond electron diffraction and X-ray diffraction

Speaker: Yifeng Jiang (EuXFEL)

16:05 → 16:25 XFEL session: Investigation on electronic structure and reactivity in heterometallic proteins using femtosecond X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Speaker: Rebeca Castillo (MPI Mulheim)

16:25 → 16:45 XFEL session: Ultrafast soft X-ray investigations of solution phase molecular photochemistry and photophysics at EuXFEL

Speaker: Ben van Kuiken (EuXFEL)

16:45 → 17:10 Coffee Break & Sponsor exhibition

17:10 → 17:40 Keynote: Ultrafast biological imaging at the European XFEL, without crystals

Speaker: Filipe Maia (Uppsala University)

Ultrafast biological imaging with no crystals public small.pdf

17:40 → 18:00 XFEL session: Expanding drop on fixed target approaches using droplet addition

Speaker: Jos Kamps (Diamond LS)

18:00 → 18:20 XFEL session: The long path to extend transient grating spectroscopy into the X-rays

Speaker: Cristian Svetina (IMDEA Nanociencia)

18:20 → 18:40 XFEL session: Imaging femtosecond laser-induced lattice distortions inside crystalline semiconductors by Ultrafast Dynamical Diffraction

Speaker: Ángel Fernández Rodriguez (EuXFEL)

Friday, 6 September

09:00 → 09:30 CoDI workshop: Leveraging X-ray coherence to probe the complexity of materials under realistic conditions

Speaker: Irene Calvo (Univ. Zaragoza)

09:30 → 10:00 CoDI workshop: Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging: from simple particles to complex crystalline materials

Speaker: Virginie Chamard (Univ. Marseille)

10:00 → 10:30 CoDI workshop: Coherent imaging opportunities at diffraction-limited storage rings

Speaker: Pablo Villanueva-Perez (Univ. Lund)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:30 CoDI workshop: CoDI, Coherent Diffraction Imaging BL at ALBA II - technical details

Speaker: Angel Rodríguez-Fernández (EuXFEL)

11:30 → 11:50 CoDI workshop: Non-destructive imaging of computer chips on the nanoscale by X-ray ptychography

Speaker: Ana Diaz (PSI)

11:50 → 12:10 CoDI workshop: X-ray nanoimaging of cement hydration

Speaker: Miguel A. G. Aranda (Univ. Malaga)

12:10 → 12:30 CoDI workshop: X-ray nanodiffraction as a probe for structural dynamics in Earth and Planetary sciences (remote talk)

Speaker: Catalin Popescu (ALBA)

12:30 → 12:50 CoDI workshop: Coherent X-ray Imaging for Quantum Materials

Speaker: Allan Johnson (IMDEA Nanociencia)

12:50 → 13:10 CoDI workshop: X-ray nanoimaging in photo-electrocatalysis

Speaker: José Solla (Univ. Alicante), Victor de la Peña (IMDEA Energia)

13:10 → 13:30 CoDI workshop: X-ray nanoimaging of optoelectronic materials

Speaker: Miguel Anaya (Univ. Sevilla)

13:30 → 13:50 CoDI workshop: Unveiling New Frontiers in spintronics through Multi-Length Scale Imaging and Correlative Microscopy

Speaker: Sandra Ruiz Gómez (ALBA)

13:50 → 14:30 CoDI workshop: Round table including future actions