Welcome to register to a PhD course at DanMAX @MAX IV!
When: Monday 7 December 2026, 14:00 – Wednesday 9 December 2026, late afternoon
Where: MAX IV Laboratory, Fotongatan 2, Lund, Sweden
Organisers: Henrik Birkedal (hbirkedal@chem.au.dk), Mads Ry Vogel Jørgensen, Thorbjørn E. K. Christrensen, Maja Østergaard
About
How does one, in practice, go about conducting a synchrotron experiment on complicated hierarchical and/or multiscale materials? This will be addressed in this course involving 2-day hands-on experiments as part of the Aarhus University-run PhD course on hierarchical materials. The students will use conventional PXRD, 2D scanning µXRD + µXRF, and µCT to study bone at various dimensions and length scales. Bone is used as example of a hierarchical multiscale material but the techniques presented are applicable across many fields including energy materials, materials chemistry, biomineralization, biomaterials, architectured materials etc.
The course will combine hands-on experiments at the DanMAX beamline at the MAX-IV synchrotron in Lund with preparatory self-study and report-writing. The latter will be coordinated with the participants.
Apply via the link above.