Events

Date
16.09.2026

Location
Krakow – Poland

On 16 September 2026, the CERIC facility in Poland, the National Synchrotron Radiation Facility SOLARIS, will celebrate its 10 years anniversary of Polish membership to CERIC.

The event will take place at the Faculty of Chemistry of Jagiellonian University on the third day of the conference Joint Meeting of PSRS Members and SOLARIS Centre Users.

Two sessions will cover the review of CERIC facilities and activities, and results of user experiments supported by CERIC.

16 September – EVENT’s PROGRAMME

09:00 – 09:20 – Ornela De Giacomo (CERIC-ERIC) – General presentation of CERIC-ERIC

09:20 – 09:35 – Lisa Vaccari (Elettra Synchrotron, Trieste) – Towards Elettra 2.0: new challenges and opportunities for Science at CERIC

09:35 – 09:50 – Heinz Amenitsch (Graz University of Technology) – Small-Angle Scattering at TU Graz: Facilities and Scientific Highlights

09:50 – 10:05 – Janez Plavec (National Institute of Chemistry & University of Ljubljana) – NMR Spectroscopy in Structural Studies

10:05 – 10:20 – Federica Mantovani (Area Science Park, Trieste) – PPR@CERIC: An Integrated Research Infrastructure for Pathogen Research Including Advanced Genomics, Single-Cell Multi-Omics and Virology Unit 

10:20 – 10:30 – Marek Stankiewicz (SOLARIS, Krakow) – 10 years of SOLARIS at CERIC-ERIC 

10:30 – 11:10 – Coffee break with anniversary cake

11:10 – 11:40 – Beata Bochentyn (Gdansk Tech) – Towards Understanding the Beneficial Impact of SOFC Anode Catalytic Layers through Complementary Studies at SOLARIS and ESRF

11:40 – 12:00 – Simone Amatori (CERIC-ERIC) – The Cecomec Project: Ceria-Based Compounds As Effective Catalyst For Electrochemical Cells 

12:00 – 12:20 – Maciej Jankowski (ESRF, Grenoble) – AI-Driven Automation and Assistance at Synchrotron Facilities

12:20 – 12:50 – Juraj Krempasky (PSI, Villigen) – How Ge, Mn and Te Changed My View of Magnetism

12:50 – 14:00 – Concluding remarks and goodbye lunch

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