Registration and Poster submission open!
Join us for the LEAPS Battery research forum in Lund (21–23 January 2026) to discuss the “Future of Batteries & Synchrotrons: Pushing boundaries”.
This is the third instalment after successfully establishing the LEAPS Battery landscape of facilities & users (Barcelona 2024) and exploring industry connections and applications (Berlin 2025).
When: 21–23 January 2026, lunch to lunch
Where: LINXS @ the Loop, Lund, Sweden
Poster submission open until: 15 December 2025 (as long as space permits)
Registration deadline: 7 January 2026
The 37th MAX IV User Meeting will take place at the Loop on 19–21 January 2026.
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This time, we will focus on novel chemistries and method development for material characterizations at synchrotrons. Sessions will cover complementary characterization tools as well. We will follow up on the outcome of our previous sessions and look at options for future projects. As before, we will allow ample time for discussions in a truly collaborative setting and visit the battery research instruments at MAX IV.
We invite contributed talks and posters from users, facility researchers, and industry, please register your abstract before the deadline, 17 November 2025. We will offer travel grants to young scientists (until two years after PhD) who present a talk or poster.
Organisers
Chair: Laura Simonelli (ALBA)
Co-chair: Rob Temperton (MAX IV)
Local contact: Franz Hennies (LU)
Scientific program committee
Andrey Shavorskiy (MAX IV), Elmar Kataev (HZB), Eneli Monerjan (HZB), Jakub Drnec (ESRF), Maya Kiskinova (ELETTRA), Michael Stueckelberger (DESY), Montserrat Casas (CIC energiGUNE), Rita Graceffa (EUXFEL), Sandrine Lyonnard (CEA), Alexey Maximenko (SOLARIS), Michał Perdjon (SOLARIS)
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WEDNESDAY
12:45 - 13:30 Registration, networking box-lunch
13:30 - 13:40 House keeping. Franz Hennies, LU collaboration office
13:40 - 14:00 A welcome from LINXS and a welcome from MAX IV. Trevor Forsyth, LINXS Director & Joachim Schnadt, MAX IV Science Director
14:00 - 14:30 What has happened since the first two forums? Laura Simonelli, ALBA, Barcelona Synchrotron
Method Development
14:30 - 15:00 Battery Materials at Work: Operando Insights into Structure, Disorder, and Function Dorthe B. Ravnsbæk, Aarhus University
15:00 - 15:30 Operando X-ray Probing of Solid-State Batteries under Device-Relevant Conditions Daniel Rettenwander, NTNU, Oslo
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 Discussion round 1
17:00 - 17:15 Student Poster Pitches (one slide each)
17:15 - 18:30 Poster session & refreshments
Dinner at own cost
THURSDAY
08:00 - 08:30 Registration
Mn electronic properties and structure
08:30 - 09:00 Understanding Mg and Ca Metal Anode Batteries through operando synchrotron spectroscopy techniques Alexandre Ponrouch, ICMAB-CSIC, Barcelona
09:00 - 09:20 Probing electrode heterogeneity and degradation with 2D X-ray absorption and Fluorescence imaging Min Li, Elettra, Trieste
09:20 - 09:40 Resonant x-ray diffraction studies of LiMn2O4 epitaxial thin film, Andrei Benediktovitch, DESY, Hamburg
09:40 - 10:00 Simultaneously combined XAS and XRD: Revealing complex transformation processes in batteries operando, Justus Just, MAX IV, Lund
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
Solid electrolyte interface and SiOx chemistries
11:00 - 11:30 Surface reconstruction and oxygen redox interplay in LMR layered oxides, Andrzej Kulka, AGH University of Krakow
11:30 - 11:50 Expanding the Operando Toolbox for Solid-State Batteries through Multi-Modal Synchrotron Analysis Katherine Mazzio, TU Wien
11:50 - 12:10 SynchrotronPS and XAS on nanostructured SiOx from microalgae cycled in Li-ion batteries Tove Ericson, Uppsala University
12:10 - 12:30 Measuring lithiation-induced deformations in silicon-anode ASSBs using XRD-CT and operando X-ray tomography Philip Vestin, Lund University
12:30 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 13:35 Transfer to MAX IV
13:35 - 14:20 Tour of MAX IV
14:20 - 14:50 Transfer back to The Loop
14:50 - 15:10 Coffee at The Loop
Continuity session: How do we continue to work as a community
15:10 - 15:40 A new way of accessing characterization tools for dedicated fields: the ReMade@ARI project, Marta Mirolo, ESRF, Grenoble
15:40 - 16:10 Deep insights into solid-state batteries by means of X-ray nano-holotomography, Victor Vanpeene, CEA, Grenoble
16:10 - 16:30 Battery Data Space at Helmholtz Centre Berlin – Towards FAIR operando Data, Oliver Löhmann, HZB Berlin
16:30 - 18:30 World Caffee
19:00 - 21:30 Dinner at The LOOP
FRIDAY
08:00 - 08:30 Registration
Na and Li battery
08:30 - 09:00 A Polymer-based Solid-State, Zero-Excess Potassium Cell studied by Operando HAXPS, Fabian Jeschull, KIT, Karlsruhe
09:00 - 09:20 Operando and ex-situ measurements: Safer Na-ion batteries with increased energy density, Justyna Płotek, Polish Acad. of Sciences
09:20 - 09:40 Cu incorporation in High-Voltage Layered Oxides for ed Na-ion Cathodes: A simultaneous XAS-XRD study, Marcus Fehse, CICenergiGUNE, Basque
09:40 - 10:00 In-situ WAXS study of ionothermal re-lithiation in end-of-life Li-ion batteries: mechanisms and kinetics, Abigail Pope, University of Bordeaux
10:00 - 10:20 A novel class of earth abundant Na-ion cathode materials: Operando X-ray spectroscopic and scattering studies, Oliver Thomas, Oxford University
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 12:00 Final discussion
12:00 - 13:00 Networking Box-Lunch
Contact: For questions about the workshop, please contact Franz Hennies franz.hennies@fsi.lu.se
The workshop is free of charge, but please note that we have a no-show fee of 150€ for cancellations later than 18 January to offset the cost of ordered food.
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