don’t miss the third edition of LINXS Young researchers' symposium for Hard Matter!

Join us for the YRI Hard Matter Symposium at LINXS – a 2½-day event combining hands-on beamline insights, career development, and networking opportunities for early-career researchers working with synchrotron and neutron techniques in hard matter science.

When: 13-15 October, 2025

Where: LINXS, The Loop, Rydbergs torg 4, Lund

Registration information: Please indicate in the registration if you would like to join the MAX IV tour.

Registration Deadline: October 1, 2025 (Lunch and MAX IV visit cannot be guaranteed for registrations after this date)

Cost: Free of charge

What to prepare:

-       A poster (there will be a prize for the best poster!)

Description

Join us for the YRI Hard Matter Symposium - an engaging 2 ½ -day event designed to connect and inspire early-career researchers exploring or utilizing synchrotron- and neutron-based techniques such as diffraction, spectroscopy, and imaging in the field of hard matter. This symposium offers a unique opportunity to network with peers, share ideas, and spark new collaborations.

Hosted at LINXS in Lund, this year’s symposium features a rich mix of keynote talks, panel discussions, a poster session, and interactive formats tailored to provide participants with both scientific insights and practical career guidance.

The first day is dedicated to career development, featuring speakers from both academia and industry who will share their professional journeys, offer insights on navigating career transitions, and provide practical strategies for securing research funding. Day 2 focuses on beamline experiments with a special emphasis on multimodal approaches to research questions by exploring the integration of complementary techniques and theoretical methods. Furthermore, practicalities of conducting successful experiments will be addressed by beamline scientists, highlighting common challenges in preparation, beamtime execution, and data analysis. The symposium concludes with a tour of MAX IV in the morning of Day 3.

Why attend?

• Connect with peers and senior scientists in the hard matter community

• Gain insights from practical beamline experiences and multimodal case studies.

• Receive practical career advice and effective strategies for securing research funding

• Showcase your research and get feedback in a relaxed atmosphere

• Programme

  Day 1: Career Paths & Research Opportunities

  08:30 – 09:15 Arrival & Coffee

  09:15 – 10:00 Welcome + Icebreaker

  10:00 – 10:30 Industry Sponsor Presentations

  10:50 – 12:10 Career Talks (Academia & Industry)

  12:10 – 13:10 Funding Info + Lunch

  13:10 – 14:00 Q&A with the Career & Funding Panel

  14:00 – 15:30 Interactive group discussions on key career topics

  15:30 – 16:00 Break & Poster Setup

  16:00 – 16:45 Tour of “The Loop”

  16:45 – 17:45 Poster Session + Mingle

  17:45 Poster Prize Announcement

  Day 2: Integrating Multimodal Methods and Mastering Beamtime Execution

  08:45 – 09:00 Arrival & Coffee

  09:00 – 10:15 Leveraging Multimodal Methods to Advance Research

  10:30 – 11:10 Q&A: Lessons from Multimodal Approaches

  11:10 – 12:00 Exploring Multimodal Approaches: Peer Discussions

  12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

  13:00 – 13:30 Beamtime Bingo

  13:30 – 14:30 Expert Perspectives on Common Beamtime Challenges (Part 1)

  14:30 – 15:00 Break & Feedback

  15:00 – 16:00 Expert Perspectives on Common Beamtime Challenges (Part 2)

  16:00 – 16:30 Wrap-up & Next Steps

  Day 3: Tour of MAX IV from 09:00-12:00 am

• Organisers

  For questions about the agenda etc, please contact any of the organisers:

  Annika Stellhorn, ESS, annika.stellhorn@ess.eu

  Axl Eriksson, Lund University, axl.eriksson@chemphys.lu.se

  Isaac Appelquist Løge, Technical University of Denmark, isacl@kt.dtu.dk

  Dalini Maharaj, Forschungszentrum Jülich, d.maharaj@fz-juelich.de

  Fiona Nermark, Lund University, fiona.nermark@chem.lu.se

  Sandra Benter, ESRF, sandra.benter@esrf.fr

  Konstantin Victor Werner, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, konstantin-victor.werner@grenoble-inp.fr

Contact

For practical questions about the symposium, please contact josefin.martell@linxs.lu.se

Please note that we have a no-show fee of 200 SEK to offset the cost of ordered food.
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