Welcome to LINXS Science Day!
What scientific impact can be achieved through the use of X-ray and neutron techniques? LINXS Science Day will present breakthroughs in quantum materials, heritage science, semiconductors, life science, chemical biology, and the deformation and flow of materials.
Each of LINXS’ ten themes will present during the day, focusing on how X-ray and neutron techniques have enabled new research results, questions, and methods.
The day will end with an interactive session including different demo sessions to demonstrate LINXS’ new workstations. Each workstation is equipped with software for analysing data from imaging, diffraction, scattering, and microscopy experiments. Researchers, especially early-careers, are welcome to bring a poster.
LINXS Science Day is open to anyone with an interest in what is going on at LINXS and the broader neutron and X-ray science community.
When: 11 June 2026, 09:00-15:00
Where: LINXS (The Loop, Rydbergs torg 4, Lund) and via Zoom
Preliminary agenda
08:30 Arrival and coffee
09:00 Trevor Forsyth (LINXS Director) - LINXS in Science Village
09:15 Kristiaan Temst (Chair, LINXS Science Advisory Board (SAB) - View from LINXS International Science Advisory Board (SAB)
09:30 – 12:00 — Morning Session
Chair: Helmut Schober, Director General of the European Spallation Source (ESS)
09:30 Ken Andersen, Director of the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL-) “Science Strategy at the Institut Laue-Langevin”
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 Roland Kádár, Chalmers Institute of Technology - “Future of Rheology through RheoMAXESS”
10:45 Speaker TBC - Title TBC
10:55 Erik van Loon - Lund University - "Quantum materials through the lens of x-ray and neutron science"
11:10 Mattias Borg - Lund University - “X-ray-based characterization - the key enabler for neuromorphic devices”
11:20 Martin Bech - Lund University - "X-ray multi-modal microscopy of biological samples”
11:35 Mikael Fauvelle, Lund University - “Challenges and Opportunities for Heritage Science at Large-Scale Neutron and Synchrotron Facilities”
11:50 Lunch and mingle
13:00 – 16:00 — Afternoon Session
Chair: Olof “Charlie” Karis, Director of MAX IV Laboratory
13:10 Prof. Dr. Michael Sattler, Helmholtz Zentrum München – “Integrative structural biology in 4D to study dynamics in protein complexes”
13:30 Lena Uller, Lund University - “From Viral Sensing to Alarmin Release: The Airway Epithelium in Chronic Lung Disease”
13:40 Felix Roosen-Runge, Lund University - “A soft matter view on protein condensates via X-rays and neutrons”
13:55 Tobias Krojer, MAX IV - “Possibilities of X-ray aided fragment screening to find new binders to viral proteins”
14:10 Cyril Dominguez, University of Leicester - “Structural and chemical investigations of proteins involved in gene expression regulation”
14:30 Coffee break
15:00 Young Researchers’ Initiatives (YRI) Anna Stephens, Lund University; Annika Stellhorn, ESS
15:15 Poster session, interactive session & refreshments (including demonstrations of data analysis clinics, imaging etc.)
CONTACT
For practical questions, please contact josefin.martell@linxs.lu.se
The event is free of charge, but please note that if you register for physical participation and do not attend without informing us, a no-show fee of 200 SEK will be charged to offset the cost of ordered food/refreshments etc.
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