Name: User Community Building Workshop in Synchrotron Radiation Techniques available for Cypriot academia and industrial users at SESAME
Start: 2025-11-24T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-11-25T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Semeli Hotel Nicosia Cyprus

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

from Monday 24 November 2025 (09:00) to Tuesday 25 November 2025 (17:00)

Monday 24 November 2025

09:00 Registration & Welcome Coffee
Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Conference Room

09:30

09:30 - 09:50
Room: Conference Room
09:50 Building bridges with light: The SESAME story - Atef Elkadime (SESAME)
Building bridges with light: The SESAME story
- Atef Elkadime (SESAME)
09:50 - 10:10
Room: Conference Room
10:10 High Brilliance, High Impact: Science at SESAME - Andrea Lausi (SESAME)
High Brilliance, High Impact: Science at SESAME
- Andrea Lausi (SESAME)
10:10 - 10:30
Room: Conference Room
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Conference Room
11:00 Session 1
Session 1
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 National strategic research infrastructures BioMERA Platform microCT and the new BioMERAplus XRF and labXAFS: Twinning with SESAME beamlines - Kirsi Lorentz (The Cyprus Institute) Anis Fatima (The Cyprus Institute)

11:20 Revealing the Unseen: Exploring New Research Horizons for Cyprus with the BEATS Beamline at SESAME - Abdellatif Saadaldin (SESAME)

11:40 Educational activities with SESAME in the context of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie ENGAGE program - Constantia Alexandrou (The Cyprus Institute)

11:50 Deep Learning for 3D Synchrotron X-ray Tomography Data - Haider Shah Syed Muhammad (The Cyprus Institute)

12:00 Recent Advances in XAS/XEOL at BM08-XAFS/XRF: Machine Learning-Driven XAFS Data Analysis - Latif Ullah Khan (SESAME)

12:20 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)

12:40 Leveraging the power of exposomics to study the impact of environment on human health - Konstantinos Makris (Cyprus University of Technology)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: DEMETRA restaurant
14:00 Session 2
Session 2
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

14:00 Synchrotron X-ray Phase Contrast Imaging: Opportunities and Applications - Gianluca Iori (Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI))

14:20 ANAXAM: How industry profits from applied material analytics using Neutron and Synchrotron radiation - Christian Grünzweig (ANAXAM, Switzerland)

14:40 Utilizing Synchrotron Radiation to Explore Material Properties - Melita Menelaou (Cyprus University of Technology)

15:30 Discussions and networking - All
Tuesday 25 November 2025
09:00 Session 3
Session 3
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

09:00 Why Synchrotrons Make Powder Diffraction Powerful - Andrea Lausi (SESAME)

09:20 Micro-Computed Tomography of Mouse Bone Tissue: Applications in Ex Vivo and In Vivo Studies - Antonia Sophocleous (European University Cyprus)

09:40 ID11-L HESEB: Soft X ray Absorption Spectroscopy at SESAME and Scientific Opportunities - Mustafa Genisel (SESAME)

10:00 SESAME BM02-IR Beamline: Present & Future - Gihan Kamel (SESAME)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Conference Room
11:00 Session 4
Session 4
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 TXPES: A New Soft X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Beamline at SESAME - Zeynep Öztürk (SESAME)

11:20 Synchrotron Radiation Techniques applied to Salt Crystallization Studies in Building Materials - Ioannis Ioannou (University of Cyprus)

11:40 From Beginner to Beamline: A Journey into Synchrotron FTIR Research on Ancient Human Remains at SESAME - Yuko Miyauchi (SESAME)

12:00 Introduction to the mentoring sessions of the afternoon - Q&A - - Andrea Lausi (SESAME)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 13:30
Room: DEMETRA restaurant
13:30
13:30 - 16:30
Room: Conference Room
Contributions

13:30 Introduction to proposals writing - Annick Froideval Zumbiehl (Paul Scherrer Institute)

14:00 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

16:00 Wrap-up and conclusions - All