LUXEM is delighted to welcome Federico Bertelli as new PhD student, focusing on ultrafast electron diffraction and imaging of hybrid nanostructures. We wish him a great start!
Truly delighted with hosting at LUXEM Dr. Caterina Vozzi, leader of the Ultrafast Dynamics in Matter group and Director at CNR-IFN. An excellent opportunity to foster ideas echanges and onset collaborations.
Congratulations to Dr. Carmelo Grova for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Design, implementation and commissioning of an ultrafast XUV ptychography beamline”!
We are grateful to Dr. Jacopo Fregoni, Editor of Nature Photonics, for visiting LUXEM on 29.06.2026, and for giving the talk “Trends in Publishing from the Nature Portfolio”. An excellent opportunity to gather insights on the publishing process and landscape, examining the challenges and opportunities arising from new technologies.
Prof. Mancini gratefully acknowledges the organizers for the invited keynote talk “Quantifying photoinduced polaronic distortions in transition metal oxides and halide perovskites with ultrafast X-ray and state-selective spectroscopy methods” at EPDIC19 – MS03: Short-range order using total scattering and XAS. Find out more
Raghav Mishra, M.SC. student at the University College London under the supervision of Prof. Silvia Cipiccia, was hosted at LUXEM on 15-19 June 2026 as part of a collaborative exchange between institutions, promoted by the Action NEXT “An international network for Non-linear Extreme ultraviolet to hard X-ray Techniques”. We are very grateful to COST for this opportunity! Find out more
The international workshop “NICE 2026 – Nonlinear Imaging and Coherent Effects”, organized by the Action NEXT "An international network for Non-linear Extreme ultraviolet to hard X-ray Techniques" and Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste took place on 20–21 May in Latisana, Italy. The meeting brought together 58 participants from 16 countries, creating an interdisciplinary forum dedicated to the latest developments in coherent imaging and nonlinear spectroscopy with advanced light sources. Prof. Mancini, member of the organizing committee, is grateful to all the participants for the interactions and professional exchanges. Find out more
LUXEM opens its facilities to showcase laboratory & research to prospective students in Physics in occasion of the M.SC. degree week at the University of Pavia. A wonderful opportunity to disseminate our research to young prospective students in Physics and Photonics.
Our article “Ultrafast Formation of Jahn–Teller Polarons Revealed by State-Selective Excitation in Correlated Spinel Co3O4” is published in the Journal of American Chemical Society (JACS) and featured on the journal cover. In this work, we unravel the ultrafast formation of Jahn–Teller polarons in spinel Co3O4 with microscopic detail. Observing the individual steps of this process enables the engineering of local properties in transition metal oxides using tailored light pulses that activate site-specific Jahn–Teller distortions. Find out more
Antonio Mazzarone presented his current PhD thesis work with a talk entitled: “Structured beams and focusing delivery schemes: a comparative analysis for extreme ultraviolet ultrafast tabletop ptychography”. We thank the organizers of the Conference for this wonderful opportunity. Find out more
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