Scientific program

The scientific program of MultIChem-ISACC 2025 will consist of interdisciplinary sessions including invited lectures, review talks and progress reports. The list of invited and confirmed speakers can be found below.

A number of hot topic reports will be selected by the International Advisory Committee from the submitted abstracts. Other contributions will be presented in a poster session. Suggestions for possible candidates for invited speakers should be sent to the Chairs of the MultIChem-ISACC 2025 Conference.

The scientific sessions will be followed by the MultIChem Management Committee meeting on Friday, July 18 to discuss recent and upcoming activities of the Action.

Monday, July 14

Tuesday, July 15

Wednesday, July 16

Thursday, July 17

Friday, July 18

Confirmed Speakers

Richard Amos, Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, United Kingdom
Biological impact of spatial and temporal collision clustering in ion beam radiotherapy

Bobby Antony, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, India
Electron and positron scattering from biomolecules

Ilko Bald, Institute of Chemistry, University of Potsdam, Germany
How to conduct low-energy electron-induced processes at atmospheric conditions using visible light

Sadia Bari, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
Probing biomolecular functional structures with X-rays

Marta Berholts, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Sweden
Solvation effects on molecular excitation and decay dynamics

Florent Calvo, University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Shedding light onto an archetypal chemical reaction: formation of a non-covalent complex into helium nanodroplets

Stephan Denifl, Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Interaction of free low-energy electrons with potential radiosensitizers

Alexander Dorn, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
Electron collision induced dynamics in clusters consisting from noble gases or from organic bio-relevant molecules

Brendan Dromey, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
Tracking dynamics for solvated electrons due to proton stopping in pristine H₂O in real time

Egor Evlyukhin, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser (IESL-FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Harnessing X-rays and high pressure: A new frontier in photochemistry

Martin Falk, Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
Chromatin: a key player in radiation-induced DNA damage and repair – New insights from micro- and nanoscale studies

Juraj Fedor, J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Understanding the complexity of electron-induced chemistry in bulk step by step

Sara Freitas, University of Porto, Portugal
Synergistic effect between photothermal and ionizing radiation therapies using plasmonic nanoparticles as photo-absorbing agents and radiosensitizers toward higher-efficiency colorectal cancer treatments

Franco Gianturco, Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Negative ion chemistry among stars and clouds: Molecular processes in the interstellar medium and in cold trap models

Vincenzo Guidi, University of Ferrara, Italy
TBA

Michael Hausmann, Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany
Characteristic chromatin networks and their response to radiation, nanoparticle exposure or peritoneal dialysis

Julius Jellinek, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, USA
Unravelling dynamical peculiarities in nanoalloys using subsystems-level analyses

Shiv Khanna, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA
Ligated metal chalcogenide clusters as novel catalysts

Jaroslav Kočišek, J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Electron attachment to azoles and their clusters

Jozef Lengyel, Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Uptake and collision dynamics of molecules with hydrated acid clusters

Nigel Mason, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Flames as a chemical factory - Atoms, Molecules, Clusters and Surfaces united in action

Tommaso Mazza, European XFEL, Schenefeld, Germany
Coalescence dynamics of metal and oxide clusters probed by optical and x-ray lasers

Richard Palmer, Nanomaterials Lab, Swansea University, United Kingdom
2D and 3D clusters and arrays on surfaces

Alise Podelinska, Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, Estonia
Thermodynamic stability and melting behavior of ionic crystals: A case study of LiF

Thomas Pohl, Institute for Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Breeding of size selected clusters and nanoparticles in highly charged helium droplets

Thomas Schlathölter, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Photon and ion-induced dynamics in gas-phase DNA

Cécile Sicard-Roselli, Institut de Chimie Physique, University Paris Saclay, France
Are gold nanoparticles so inert under ionizing radiation?

Nicolas Sisourat, Sorbonne University, CNRS, Laboratoire Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, Paris, France
Interatomic Coulombic Electron Capture-like processes at DESIREE

Andrey Solov'yov, MBN Research Center, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
TBA

Ilia Solov'yov, Institute of Physics, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany
TBA

Eric Suraud, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
Some surprises and puzzles in the TDDFT description of irradiation of molecules

Petra Tegeder, Physikalisch-Chemisches Institut, Heidelberg University, Germany
Electronic properties of interfaces with functional molecules

Hidetsugu Tsuchida, Quantum Science and Engineering Center, Kyoto University, Japan
Experiment of irradiating a liquid film with MeV heavy ions

Ivo Utke, Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Thun, Switzerland
The perspective of metal nanoprint purity: Small vs Large metalorganic molecules in FEBID

Alexey Verkhovtsev, MBN Research Center, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Computational studies of radiation-induced phenomena in molecules and atomic clusters

Andrew Wheatley, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Understanding metal-organic framework densification: modulating the growth of colloidal nanoparticles and the implications for guest inclusion by monoliths

Beata Ziaja-Motyka, Center for Free-Electron-Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
Structural rearrangement in X-ray irradiated water revealed by XFEL pump- XFEL probe experiment