User Community Building Workshop in Synchrotron Radiation Techniques available for Cypriot academia and industrial users at SESAME

Contribution List

1. Building bridges with light: The SESAME story

Prof. Atef Elkadime (SESAME)

24/11/2025, 09:50

2. High Brilliance, High Impact: Science at SESAME

Dr Andrea Lausi (SESAME)

24/11/2025, 10:10

3. National strategic research infrastructures BioMERA Platform microCT and the new BioMERAplus XRF and labXAFS: Twinning with SESAME beamlines

Dr Kirsi Lorentz (The Cyprus Institute), Dr Anis Fatima (The Cyprus Institute)

24/11/2025, 11:00

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

28. Revealing the Unseen: Exploring New Research Horizons for Cyprus with the BEATS Beamline at SESAME

Dr Abdellatif Saadaldin (SESAME)

24/11/2025, 11:20

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

29. Educational activities with SESAME in the context of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie ENGAGE program

Prof. Constantia Alexandrou (The Cyprus Institute)

24/11/2025, 11:40

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

4. Deep Learning for 3D Synchrotron X-ray Tomography Data

Haider Shah Syed Muhammad (The Cyprus Institute)

24/11/2025, 11:50

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

5. Recent Advances in XAS/XEOL at BM08-XAFS/XRF: Machine Learning-Driven XAFS Data Analysis

Dr Latif Ullah Khan (SESAME)

24/11/2025, 12:00

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

7. Identification, spatial distribution, and speciation of relevant trace elements in manganese umbers from the Troodos Mountain in Cyprus: a combined X-ray fluorescence and X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy study

George Chadjigeorgiou (Geological Survey Department Cyprus)

24/11/2025, 12:20

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

8. Leveraging the power of exposomics to study the impact of environment on human health

Prof. Konstantinos Makris (Cyprus University of Technology)

24/11/2025, 12:40

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

9. Synchrotron X-ray Phase Contrast Imaging: Opportunities and Applications

Dr Gianluca Iori (Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI))

24/11/2025, 14:00

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

10. ANAXAM: How industry profits from applied material analytics using Neutron and Synchrotron radiation

Dr Christian Grünzweig (ANAXAM, Switzerland)

24/11/2025, 14:20

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

11. Utilizing Synchrotron Radiation to Explore Material Properties

Dr Melita Menelaou (Cyprus University of Technology)

24/11/2025, 14:40

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

12. Discussions and networking

All

24/11/2025, 15:30

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

13. Why Synchrotrons Make Powder Diffraction Powerful

Dr Andrea Lausi (SESAME)

25/11/2025, 09:00

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

14. Micro-Computed Tomography of Mouse Bone Tissue: Applications in Ex Vivo and In Vivo Studies

Dr Antonia Sophocleous (European University Cyprus)

25/11/2025, 09:20

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

15. ID11-L HESEB: Soft X ray Absorption Spectroscopy at SESAME and Scientific Opportunities

Dr Mustafa Genisel (SESAME)

25/11/2025, 09:40

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

16. SESAME BM02-IR Beamline: Present & Future

Dr Gihan Kamel (SESAME)

25/11/2025, 10:00

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

21. TXPES: A New Soft X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Beamline at SESAME

Dr Zeynep Öztürk (SESAME)

25/11/2025, 11:00

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

23. Synchrotron Radiation Techniques applied to Salt Crystallization Studies in Building Materials

Prof. Ioannis Ioannou (University of Cyprus)

25/11/2025, 11:20

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

22. From Beginner to Beamline: A Journey into Synchrotron FTIR Research on Ancient Human Remains at SESAME

Dr Yuko Miyauchi (SESAME)

25/11/2025, 11:40

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

24. Introduction to the mentoring sessions of the afternoon - Q&A -

Dr Andrea Lausi (SESAME)

25/11/2025, 12:00

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

25. Introduction to proposals writing

Dr Annick Froideval Zumbiehl (Paul Scherrer Institute)

25/11/2025, 13:30

Develop your scientific idea(s) and write your SESAME proposal for beamtime request under the scientific guidance of mentoring teams

26. Mentoring sessions on “crazy scientific ideas” by research topic: ◦ 1: Geology, Soil Science ◦ 2: Building materials ◦ 3: Biology, Medicine, Pharmaceutics ◦ 4: Energy, Catalysis ◦ 5: Cultural Heritage, Archaeology ◦ 6: Other topics

All

25/11/2025, 14:00

Develop your scientific idea(s) and write your SESAME proposal for beamtime request under the scientific guidance of mentoring teams

Mentoring sessions on “crazy scientific ideas”:
◦ Session 1: Geology, Soil Science
◦ Session 2: Building materials
◦ Session 3: Biology, Medicine,
◦ Pharmaceutics
◦ Session 4: Energy, Catalysis
◦ Session 5: Cultural Heritage, Archaeology
◦ Session 6: Other topics

27. Wrap-up and conclusions

All

25/11/2025, 16:00

Develop your scientific idea(s) and write your SESAME proposal for beamtime request under the scientific guidance of mentoring teams

6. Recent Advances in XAS/XEOL at BM08-XAFS/XRF: Machine Learning-Driven XAFS Data Analysis

Dr Latif Ullah Khan (SESAME)

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility

18. The TXPES beamline and its applications

Dr Zeynep Öztürk (SESAME)

Connecting research ideas and needs relevant for Cypriot scientists with analytical synchrotron techniques and services offered at the SESAME user facility