Speakers

SPEAKERS

Get to know the speakers who will share their insights and knowledge at SPO 2026

Marcin Sikora
Prof. Dr.

Marcin Sikora

SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Luc Patthey
Prof. Dr.

Luc Patthey

Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Switzerland

Eugenio Paris
Dr.

Eugenio Paris

Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, SwissFEL, Switzerland

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Volodymyr Bezguba

Kyiv Academic University, Kyiv, Ukraine

Astrid Schneidewind
Dr.

Astrid Schneidewind

Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

Anatoliy Senyshyn
Dr.

Anatoliy Senyshyn

Technical University of Munich, Germany

Oleksandr Tomchuk
Dr.

Oleksandr Tomchuk

ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, UK

Yehor Kosiachkin
Dr.

Yehor Kosiachkin

European Spallation Source (ESS), Lund, Sweden

Vasyl Ryukhtin
Dr.

Vasyl Ryukhtin

Nuclear Physics Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Anastasiia Sakhatska

Anastasiia Sakhatska

Kovalenko Lab – Functional Inorganic Materials, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

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Dr.

Ivan Guk

National Science Center “Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology”, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Oleg Petrenko
Dr.

Oleg Petrenko

Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France

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Dr.

Andrii Zelinsky

NSC “Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology”, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Oleksandr Prokhnenko
Dr.

Oleksandr Prokhnenko

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany

Myron S. Huzan
Dr.

Myron S. Huzan

MAX IV, Lund, Sweden

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Dr.

Natalia Olszowska

SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

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Prof.

Tomasz Wróbel

SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Federico J. Furch
Dr.

Federico J. Furch

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

Optica Ambassador

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Dr.

Ondřej Hort

ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic

Tamás Nagy
Dr.

Tamás Nagy

Max Born Institute (MBI), Berlin, Germany

Cord Arnold
Dr.

Cord Arnold

Lund University, Sweden

Hervé Cailleau
Prof. Dr.

Hervé Cailleau

Institut de Physique de Rennes (IPR), Université de Rennes, CNRS, France

Urs Staub
Dr.

Urs Staub

Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Microscopy and Magnetism Group, Switzerland

Leonie Christine Spitz
Dr.

Leonie Christine Spitz

Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Bernina group, Switzerland

Lukáš Nádvorník
Dr.

Lukáš Nádvorník

Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, Czech Republic

Peter Kubaščík
Dr.

Peter Kubaščík

Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, Czech Republic

Ritwika Mandal
Dr.

Ritwika Mandal

Institut des Matériaux de Nantes Jean Rouxel (IMN), Nantes Université, CNRS, France

Elizabeth Skoropata
Dr.

Elizabeth Skoropata

Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), SwissFEL Furka, Switzerland

Nelson Hua
Dr.

Nelson Nientsu Hua

Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Laboratory for Advanced Spectroscopy and X-ray Sources, Switzerland

Artem Levchuk
Dr.

Artem Levchuk

Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés (LSI), École Polytechnique, CNRS, France

Maryna Pankratova
Dr.

Maryna Pankratova

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Materials Theory, Uppsala University, Sweden

Thomas Pezeril
Dr.

Thomas Pezeril

Institut de Physique de Rennes (IPR), CNRS, Université de Rennes, France

Damien Léa
Dr. cand.

Damien Léa

Institut de Physique de Rennes (IPR), CNRS, Université de Rennes, France

Enrico di Russo
Dr.

Enrico di Russo

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Padova, Italy

Mindaugas Gedvilas
Dr.

Mindaugas Gedvilas

Department of Laser Technologies, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (FTMC), Vilnius, Lithuania

Amit Verma
Prof. Dr.

Amit Verma

Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India

Dovilė Čibiraitė-Lukenskienė
Dr.

Dovilė Čibiraitė-Lukenskienė

Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (FTMC) and Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

Oleksandr Stroyuk
Dr.

Oleksandr Stroyuk

Forschungszentrum Jülich, Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (HI ERN), Institute of Energy Materials and Devices – Photovoltaics (IMD-3), Erlangen, Germany

Oleg Dimitriev
Dr.

Oleg Dimitriev

V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Galina Gurieva
Dr.

Galina Gurieva

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), Department Structure and Dynamics of Energy Materials, Germany

Illia Guralskyi
Dr.

Illia Guralskyi

Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine

Mariia Pashchenko
Dr.

Mariia Pashchenko

Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU), Prague, Czech Republic

Optica Ambassador

Kateryna Terebilenko
Prof. Dr.

Kateryna Terebilenko

Faculty of Chemistry, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine

Liudmyla Derzhypolska
Dr.

Liudmyla Derzhypolska

Institute of Physics, NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

More speakers will be announced soon.

Luc Patthey
Prof. Dr.
Luc Patthey

Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Switzerland

Eugenio Paris
Prof. Dr.
Dr. Eugenio Paris

Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, SwissFEL, Switzerland

Leonie Christine Spitz
Dr.
Leonie Christine Spitz

Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Bernina group, Switzerland

Tsukasa Yoshida
Prof. Dr.
Tsukasa Yoshida

Yamagata University, Japan

Maksym Strikha
Prof. Dr.
Maksym Strikha

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine

Marcin Sikora
Prof. Dr.
Marcin Sikora

SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, Kraków, Poland

Oleksandr Stroyuk
Dr.

Oleksandr Stroyuk

Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energy (HI ERN), Germany

Luiz G. Jacobsohn
Prof. Dr.
Luiz G. Jacobsohn

Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, USA

Sergii Yakunin
Dr.
Sergii Yakunin

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Mr.
Yann Amouroux

Director, Europe at Optica, UK

Serhiy Kondratenko
Prof. Dr.
Serhiy Kondratenko

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine

Thomas Pezeril
Prof Dr.
Thomas Pezeril

Université de Rennes, Rennes, France

Vitaliy Goryashko
Dr.
Vitaliy Goryashko

SACLA XFEL, Japan

Svitozar Serkez
Dr.
Svitozar Serkez

European XFEL, Germany

Mykola Biednov
Dr.
Mykola Biednov

European XFEL, Germany

Larysa Khomenkova
Prof Dr.
Larysa Khomenkova

Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, NAS, Ukraine

Ievgeniia Chaban
Dr.
Ievgeniia Chaban

École Polytechnique, France

Dr.
Tim A. Butcher

Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany

Dr.
Oleh Yermakov

V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Dr.
Alexey Maksimenko

SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, Kraków, Poland

Dr.
Katarzyna Sowa

SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, Kraków, Poland

Dr.
Yevheniia Smortsova

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg , Germany

Dr.
Vasyl Shynkar

EssilorLuxottica, Paris, France

Dr.
Sergii Golovynskyi

Shenzhen University, China

Dr.
Luca Seravalli

IMEM-CNR Institute, Italy

Dr.
Iuliia Golovynska

College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

Dr.
Matteo Bosi

IMEM-CNR Institute, Italy

Dr.
Victor Tapio Rangel Kuoppa

Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

Tamás Nagy
Tamás Nagy

Max Born Institute (MBI), Berlin, Germany

Federico J. Furch
Federico J. Furch

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

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Ondřej Hort

ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic

Cord Arnold
Cord Arnold

Lund University, Sweden

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