ELIXIR2026
The ELIXIR2026 workshop will take place at SOLEIL from March 9 to 11, 2026.
The development of vacuum-compatible liquid sampling sources has enabled the use of ionizing radiation sources (XUV and X-rays) to study a variety of phenomena in solution, such as reaction dynamics, solvation, or interfacial chemistry. This development is constantly evolving with improvements in light sources, such as the relative democratization of laser sources based on high-order harmonic generation, and improvements in liquid targets with for instance the recent development of stable flat liquid jets with sub-micrometer thicknesses.
The spectroscopic tools available are now extremely varied and reflect the diversity of the scientific communities interested in the study of liquid-phase phenomena at the molecular scale. They include time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (femtosecond and even attosecond), highly nonlinear optics via liquid-phase HHG, probes of chirality (circular X-ray dichroism, PECD), RIXS, coincidence measurements (e-,e-), etc.
This workshop will bring together users of these different tools. It will also provide an opportunity to compare and improve theoretical aspects of molecular dynamics in the liquid phase, thanks to the participation, we hope, of European experts in the field.
Sponsored by the PEPR LUMA
More information
Click here to see the detailed programme and abstracts.
List of Speakers
Keynote speakers :
- Helen Fielding - Department of Chemistry, University College London (UK)
- Petr Slavicek - Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague (Czech Republic)
- Bernd Winter - Fritz-Haber Institute in Berlin (Germany)
Invited speakers :
- Hendrik Bluhm - Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin (Germany)
- Alexie Boyer - Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux, Strasbourg (France)
- Stéphane Carniato - Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, Paris (France)
- Hanieh Fattahi - Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen (Germany)
- Eric Gloaguen - Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, Orsay (France)
- Stefan Haessler - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée, Palaiseau (France)
- Andreas Hans - University of Kassel Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Kassel (Germany)
- Eleonora Luppi - Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Paris (France)
- Angana Mondal - ARCNL – Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography, and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Gunnar Öhrwall - Max IV laboratory and Lund University, Lund (Sweden)
- Simone Pezzotti - Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (France)
- Annette Pietzsch - Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Berlin (Germany)
- Hans-Christian Schewe - J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague (Czech Republic)
- David Starr - Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Berlin (Germany)
- Joana Valerio - European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser, Hamburg (Germany)
- Iain Wilkinson - Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Berlin (Germany)
Monday, March 9th, 2026
8:45 - 9:30 | Registration |
9:30 - 9:45 | Opening |
9:45 - 10:25 | Liquid-Jet Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Aqueous Solutions: Recent Breakthroughs and Current Challenges Bernd Winter - Fritz-Haber Institute in Berlin (Germany) |
10:25 - 10:55 | A Flow-Focused Droplet Train for Investigating Solution Phase Processes with Ambient Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy David Starr - Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Berlin (Germany) |
10:55 - 11:15 | Coffee break |
11:15 - 11:45 | Probing Supramolecular Structures in Solution by Resonant Energy Transfer in the X-Ray Range Eric Gloaguen - Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, Orsay (France) |
11:45 - 12:15 | Title TBC Alexie Boyer - Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux, Strasbourg (France) |
12:15 - 12:35 | Real-Time Tracking of the intramolecular vibrational dynamics of liquid water Oliviero Cannelli - CFEL-ATTO, DESY (Germany) |
12:05 - 12:20 | Lunch |
14:00 - 14:30 | Title TBC Hanieh Fattahi - Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen (Germany) |
14:30 - 15:00 | Title TBC Simone Pezzotti - Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (France) |
15:00 - 15:20 | Practical User Guide of Liquid Sample Delivery Systems for User Facilities and Table-top X-ray Spectroscopy Applications Anna Zymaková - ELI ERIC Beamlines Facility (Czech Republic) |
15:20 - 15:50 | Coffee break |
15:50 - 16:20 | Liquid Sample at EuXFEL Joana Valerio - European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser, Hamburg (Germany) |
16:20 - 16:50 | Characterization of non-aqueous solvents using liquid jet photo-electron spectroscopy Hans-Christian Schewe - J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague (Czech Republic) |
16:50 - 17:10 | Ultrafast Dynamics in Acetone Probed by Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy Using Few-Femtosecond Pulses Kate Robertson – CEA (France) |
17:15 - 18:30 | SOLEIL Beamline visits (GALAXIES, PLEIADES, TEMPO) |
18:30 | Poster session & Buffet dinner |
Tuesday, March 10th, 2026
9:00 - 9:40 | Title TBC Helen Fielding - Department of Chemistry, University College London (UK) |
9:40 - 10:10 | Title TBC Hendrik Bluhm - Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin (Germany) |
10:10 - 10:30 | Quantifying Electronic Energetics And Surface Properties Of Aqueous Solutions Stephan Thürmer - Kyoto University (Japan) |
10:30 - 10:50 | From Gas-phase to Liquid Phase: Probing the Electronic Structure of Amino Acids with X-ray Spectroscopy Juliette Leroux - University of Hamburg (Germany) |
10:50 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
11:20 - 11:50 | Beating Complex Solution Chemistry With The Selectivity Of Soft X-Rays Annette Pietzsch - Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Berlin (Germany) |
11:50 - 12:20 | Real-time theoretical description of coherent electronic dynamics probed by high-harmonic generation and chiral spectroscopies Eleonora Luppi - Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique, Paris (France) |
12:20 - 12:40 | X-ray natural circular dichroism of chiral molecules in liquids Gabriele Bonano - Elettra Sincrotrone (Italy) |
12:40 - 13:45 | Lunch |
13:45 - 15:45 | Attolab visit |
16:00 - 16:30 | Relativistic-intensity laser-plasma interaction at kHz repetition rate on a liquid sheet target Stefan Haessler - Laboratoire d'optique appliquée, Palaiseau (France) |
16:30 - 16:50 | High-harmonic generation in liquid crystals using a temperature-controlled flat jet device: Probing mesophase transitions and local order Marta Luisa Murillo Sánchez - Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (Germany) |
16:50 - 17:20 | Shaping Light with Liquids: Attosecond Physics for Tunable EUV Sources Angana Mondal - ARCNL – Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography, and University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (Netherlands) |
17:20 - 17:35 | Coffee break |
17:35 - 18:05 | X-Ray Induced Intermolecular Decay Of Solvated Ions Investigated By Multi-Electron Coincidence Spectroscopy Andreas Hans - University of Kassel Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Kassel (Germany) |
18:05 - 18:25 | Attosecond spectroscopy of decoherence in liquid phase water Gabriele Crippa - CEA Paris Saclay, LCPMR (France) |
18:25 - 18:45 | FRSPE |
18:45 - 19:00 | PEPR LUMA |
19:30 | Conference dinner |
Wednesday, March 11th, 2026
9:00 - 9:40 | Computational Modelling for Liquid-Jet Photoemission Spectroscopy: Electronic Structure and Electron Transport Petr Slavicek - Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague (Czech Republic) |
9:40 - 10:10 | Liquid-Jet Velocity-Map Photoelectron Imaging Iain Wilkinson - Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Berlin (Germany) |
10:10 - 10:30 | X-Ray-Induced Charge-Transfer-Processes In Solution Olle Björneholm - Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University (Sweden) |
10:30 - 10:50 | Theoretical Description Of High Order Harmonic Generation In Liquids Beatriz Darna - CPCV - École Normale Supérieure (France) |
10:50 - 11:20 | Coffee break |
11:20 - 11:50 | Angle-Resolved Photoemission from Liquid Jets Gunnar Öhrwall - Max IV laboratory and Lund University, Lund (Sweden) |
11:50 - 12:20 | Water dipole orientation, Proton Transfer and Auger electron acceleration in Liquid water probed with Core-Level Spectroscopies Stéphane Carniato - Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, Paris (France) |
12:20 - 12:40 | Probing Protonation State Dependent Charge Transfer-to-Solvent in L-cysteine via Sulfur Kβ Valence-to-Core Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering Sayantan Sarkar - LCPMR, Sorbonne Université (France) |
12:40 | Closure, Lunch |
Scientific Committee
- Pierre Çarçabal (ISMO, Paris-Saclay)
- Denis Céolin (SOLEIL, Saint-Aubin)
- Remi Dupuy (LCPMR, Paris)
- Gildas Goldstejn (ISMO, Paris-Saclay)
- Loic Journel (LCPMR, Paris)
- Marie Labeye (ENS, Paris)
- Hugo Marroux (CEA, LIDYL, Saclay)
- Christophe Nicolas (SOLEIL, Saint-Aubin)
- Jérome Palaudoux (LCPMR, Paris)
Local Organizing Committee
- Sylvie Bonnardel (SOLEIL, Saint-Aubin)
- Eliott Cogné (SOLEIL, Saint-Aubin)
- Mary-Anna Destermes (SOLEIL, Saint-Aubin)
- Remi Dupuy (LCPMR, Paris)
- Frédérique Fraissard (SOLEIL, Saint-Aubin)
- Marie Labeye (ENS, Paris)
- Jean-Marc-Lucacchioni (SOLEIL, Saint-Aubin)
- Hugo Marroux (CEA, LIDYL, Saclay)
- Christophe Nicolas (SOLEIL, Saint-Aubin)
Registration is closed.
Deadline for registration: February 8th, 2026
Registration fees :
- Regular : 300€VAT included
- Postdocs : 180€ VAT included
- Students : FREE
It includes: meals and coffee break
Please note that accommodation is NOT included in the registration fees. Please contact the Guest House directly to book a room (priority to students): guesthouse.soleil@elior-services.fr
Accomodation is covered by the event budget only for Keynote and Invited speakers.
Payment modalities
Payment by order form only for French Public organism
For public organism the order form is MANDATORY. Please send it to the following address: conf-elixir2026@synchrotron-soleil.fr. Please indicate the name(s) of the participant(s), the service code Chorus Pro and the reference: ELIXIR2026 / AG 69250603.
Please note that the payment must be validated by our financial manager and recorded on your registration — this process is not automatic.
The status of your registration will be updated as soon as the payment has been received and confirmed by SOLEIL.
Payment by card
A payment online is possible. You just have to select this mode of payment when registering and to follow instructions.
Payment by bank transfer
Thank you for transmitting your payment by bank transfer to the following account number: BNP Paris Bas International Bank Account Number (IBAN): FR76 3000 4006 8400 0100 8245 430 Bank Identification Code (BIC): BNPAFRPPIFO Synchrotron SOLEIL With mentioning your name and the event reference: ELIXIR2026 / AG 69250603 Your registration will be definitive as soon as your payment will be received.
Registrations cancelled before February 16th, 2026 will be refunded. After this date, refunds are no longer possible.
Call for abstract is closed.
Deadlines for contributions:
- Oral communications: CLOSED
- Posters : CLOSED
- Plenary and Invited talks: CLOSED
In any case, we kindly ask you to use ONLY the template below to write your summary (in WORD or .rtf format).
Any summary submitted that does not follow this format will be returned to the author
File size is limited to 4MB.
Stand offer for companies
Registration is closed.
We offer during the event a few exhibition areas to companies interested in presenting their products located in the Hall of the Main building of SOLEIL, giving the opportunity for easy interaction between exhibitors, visitors, attendees and the SOLEIL staff.
The area available, of about 4m², is one table and 4 chairs.
These services are proposed in the 1320,00€ all taxes included (1100,00€ without taxes), which includes:
- The exhibition area and a poster panel during the 3 days;
- For 2 persons: access to all sessions, the Company’s logo on the web site and the Company’s logo into the electronic abstract book, coffee-breaks, the lunches of the 9th, 10th and 11th of March and the dinner of the 9th of March 2026.
Please note that the number of booths at the exhibition area is limited, and they will be attributed on a first come first served basis.
Advertising
Registration for advertising insert is closed.
The exhibitors can also insert an advertising page into the electronic abstract book of the event, for a supplementary 360,00€ all taxes included (300,00€ without taxes) amount.
Companies only interrested by the advertising page are requested to fill in the necessary form below and to send it back to the following email address: conf-elixir2026@synchrotron-soleil.fr
Sponsors
Exhibitors
Access to SOLEIL
List of hotels (not limited)
Maison d'Hébergement de SOLEIL - priority to students - Book your accommodation directly
L'Orme des Merisiers - 91190 GIF-SUR-YVETTE
Tel: +33(0)1 69 35 82 00
guesthouse.soleil@elior-services.fr
Hôtel Les Chevaliers des Balances - près de SOLEIL
Place de la Mairie - 91190 SAINT-AUBIN
Tél.: +33 (0)1 69 41 20 55 - Fax: +33 (0)1 69 85 50 75
E-mail: leschevaliersdesbalances@gmail.com
Web: www.leschevaliersdesbalances.fr
Hôtel Le Village**
4 rue Neuve - 91190 GIF-SUR-YVETTE
Tél.: +33 (0)1 69 28 82 51 - Fax: +33 (0)1 69 28 53 93
E-mail: hotel.le.village@wanadoo.fr
Web: http://hotellevillage.fr/
Hôtel d'Orsay - près du RER B
2 rue François Leroux - 91400 ORSAY
Tél.: +33 (0)1 64 86 17 47 - Fax: +33 (0)1 64 86 17 48
E-mail: hotel.orsay@orange.fr
Hôtel B&B
Plateau du Moulon - 91190 GIF-SUR-YVETTE
Tél.: +33 (0) 892 78 80 91 - Fax: +33 (0)1 69 35 34 59
Web: http://www.hotel-bb.com/
Hôtel Campanile Paris Sud
9 Ter Rue Joliot Curie - 91190 GIF-SUR-YVETTE
Tél.: +33 (0) 1 84 00 85 35
Web: https://www.campanile.com/fr/hotels/campanile-paris-saclay
Appart Hôtel Residhome Bures-Sur-Yvette La Guyonnerie
1 Rue de la Guyonnerie, 91440 BURES-SUR-YVETTE
Tél.: +33 (0) 1 64 86 36 00
Web: https://www.myresidhome.com/bures-sur-yvette/residhome-bures-la-guyonnerie/apparthotel-residence-hoteliere.html
For any questions, thank you to contact:
conf-elixir2026@synchrotron-soleil.fr
SOLEIL BBUS-Évènements
L’orme des Merisiers
Départementale 128
91190 Saint-Aubin
FRANCE