Name: The 16th Femtochemistry Conference (FEMTO16)
Start: 2025-06-22T16:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-27T13:00:00+02:00
Location: Savoia Hotel, Trieste, Italy

Monday, June 23, 2025

8:00 AM

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM A. Franciosi, President and CEO Elettra Sinctrotrone Trieste

8:40 AM C. Masciovecchio, Manager for the time resolved experimental techniques at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste

8:50 AM M. Chergui, Project leader at Elettra Sinctrotrone Trieste
9:00 AM Attosecond Science I
Attosecond Science I
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Femtosecond and attosecond studies of ionization in aqueous systems - Linda Young (Argonne National Laboratory)

9:30 AM Asynchronous and Interferometric Nonlinear Spectroscopy (AI-NS) - Minhaeng Cho (IBS Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics)

10:00 AM Nonlinear science with multi-harmonic FEL at sub-femtosecond resolution - Carlo Callegari (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste)
10:20 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM Gas Phase Dynamics
Gas Phase Dynamics
10:50 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

10:50 AM Luis Banares (Chair)

11:00 AM Ultrafast Photoacid-Base Reactions in Aqueous Solution - Erik T.J. Nibbering (Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy)

11:30 AM Attosecond-resolved probing of recolliding electron wave packets in liquids and aqueous solutions - Worner Hans Jakob (ETH Zürich)

11:50 AM The Excited State Dynamics of Ethylene: A new theoretical model - Michael Schuurman (National Research Council of Canada)

12:10 PM Identifying Key Factors in Open-Loop Control of Molecular Fragmentation with Shaped Strong Fields - Marcos Dantus (Michigan State University)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Solvation and Reaction Dynamics I
Solvation and Reaction Dynamics I
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Majed Chergui (Chair)

2:10 PM Caught in the act: Optical pump THz probe allows real-time observation of the solvent response subsequent to photoexcitation - Martina Havenith (Department of Physical Chemistry II, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

2:40 PM Electronic Dynamics of Aqueous Nucleobases Studied by Ultrafast EUV Photoemission and IR Absorption Spectroscopy - Toshinori Suzuki (Kyoto University)

3:00 PM Distinguishing cavity and non-cavity solvation structures of the hydrated electron - Benjamin Fingerhut (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

3:20 PM Ultrafast electron delocalization in aqueous L-cysteine - Nicolas Velasquez (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
4:10 PM Theory
Theory
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:10 PM Simulating, Modeling, and Analyzing Multidimensional Vibrational Spectroscopies of Water - Yoshitaka Tanimura (Kyoto University, Department of Chemistry)

4:40 PM Simulating the ultrafast dynamics of multi-mode multi-state molecular systems coupled to a dissipative environment - David Picconi (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)

5:00 PM Nonlinear Femtosecond Signals at Finite Temperature including Static Disorder via a Thermo Field Dynamics-Tensor Train Method - Raffaele Borrelli (University of Torino)

5:20 PM The Importance of Being a Conical Intersection in Ultrafast Photochemistry - Luis Bañares (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

5:40 PM A Mapping Approach to Surface Hopping - Jonathan Mannouch (MPSD, Hamburg)
6:00 PM NEXT
NEXT
6:00 PM - 6:05 PM

6:05 PM Poster Session 1
Poster Session 1
6:05 PM - 7:35 PM
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

8:00 AM

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Chirality I
Chirality I
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Carlo Callegari (Chair)

9:10 AM Laser-based sensing and driving of molecular chirality - Thomas Baumert

9:40 AM Exciting and probing attosecond multielectron dynamics in chiral molecules at FERMI - Davide Facciala' (CNR-IFN)

10:00 AM Ultra-fast nonlinear optical response of chiral molecules with a focus on conformer sensitivity - Elena Aethra Christou (Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy)

10:20 AM Light emission with a twist: Ultrafast evolution of chiral excited states determines the circularly-polarized luminescence of a chiral OLED complex - Livia Müller (Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland)
10:40 AM Light conversion
Light conversion
10:40 AM - 10:45 AM

10:45 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
11:15 AM Chirality II
Chirality II
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
Contributions

11:15 AM Ultrafast chiro-optical spectroscopy - Giulio Nicola Felice Cerullo (Politecnico di Milano)

11:45 AM Modeling plasmonic effects in photoinduced molecular processes - Emanuele Coccia (University of Trieste)

12:05 PM Ultrafast photodynamics and detection of the elusive twist-wagged intramolecular charge transfer (TWICT) state of N$^6$,N$^6$-dimethyladenine (DMAde) by transient vibrational absorption spectroscopy - Friedrich Temps (Institute of Physical Chemistry, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel)

12:25 PM Excited state dynamics of azanaphthalenes - Lauren Bertram (University of Oxford)
12:45 PM Lunch Break/IAB meeting
Lunch Break/IAB meeting
12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
2:15 PM Biosystems I
Biosystems I
2:15 PM - 3:55 PM
Contributions

2:15 PM Howe-Siang Tan (Chair)

2:25 PM Multidimensional Snapshots of Photosynthesis in Action - Jennifer Ogilvie (University of Ottawa)

2:55 PM A Coarse-Grained Simulation Approach for Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy: Dynamics in Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Systems - Thomas Jansen (University of Groningen)

3:15 PM Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy reveals ultrafast Energy Transfer processes in a low-Energy Chlorophylls-free organism: Posidonia Oceanica - Mattia Russo (Politecnico di Milano)

3:35 PM Microcavity mediated excitation dynamics of photosynthetic light harvesting complexes. - Tönu Pullerits (Lund University, Chemical Physics)
3:55 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:55 PM - 4:25 PM
4:25 PM Biosystems II
Biosystems II
4:25 PM - 6:15 PM
Contributions

4:25 PM Mechanism in Reversibly Switchable Fluorescent Proteins - Steve Meech (University of East Anglia)

4:55 PM Multi-step 11-cis to all-trans retinal photoisomerization in bestrhodopsin, an unusual microbial rhodopsin - John T.M. Kennis (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

5:15 PM Novel femtosecond photoreactions in flavo-enzymes - Marten Vos (Ecole Polytechnique)

5:35 PM Optical coherent control of biological electron transfer - Dongping Zhong (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

5:55 PM Excitation dynamics in DNA-templated silver nanoclusters - Donatas Zigmantas (Chemical Physics, Lund University)
6:15 PM

6:15 PM - 7:45 PM
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

8:00 AM

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Solvation and Reaction Dynamics III
Solvation and Reaction Dynamics III
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Stefan Haacke (Chair)

9:10 AM Ultrafast Wolff rearrangement and solvent reactions of UV-photoexcited diazocarbonyl compounds - Andrew Orr-Ewing (University of Bristol)

9:40 AM Elucidating the Interplay between Ultrafast Internal Conversion, Intersystem Crossing, and Proton Transfer for Guiding New Photochemical Reactivities - Alexander Tarnovsky (Department of Chemistry and the Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, USA)

10:00 AM Electronic structure and excited state reactions of molecules in aqueous solutions studied by time-resolved XUV photoelectron spectroscopy - Oleg Kornilov (Max Born Institute)

10:20 AM Pseudo-rotation versus rotational diffusion in the ligand exchange 2D-IR spectra of iron pentacarbonyl - Jan Helbing (University of Zurich)
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM Attosecond Science II
Attosecond Science II
11:10 AM - 12:40 PM
Contributions

11:10 AM New directions in Attosecond Chemistry - Fernando Martin (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and IMDEA Nanoscience)

11:40 AM Ultrafast dissociation dynamics of alkyl iodides induced by few-fs UV pulses - Erik Månsson (DESY CFEL)

12:00 PM Attosecond-resolved Ultrafast Electronic and Nuclear Wavepacket Dynamics in Furan at the C K-edge - Stefano Severino (ICFO - Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain)

12:20 PM Attosecond Coherent Electron Dynamics Triggered by XFEL Pulses - Marco Ruberti (Imperial College London)
12:40 PM

12:40 PM - 12:50 PM

12:50 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:50 PM - 3:00 PM

2:30 PM Visit at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste
Visit at Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste
2:30 PM - 5:30 PM

3:00 PM City Tour
City Tour
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

7:30 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Thursday, June 26, 2025

8:00 AM

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Structural Dynamics I
Structural Dynamics I
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Claudio Masciovecchio

9:10 AM X-ray probing of photochemical dynamics - Stephen Leone (University of California, Berkeley)

9:40 AM Exploring the photocycle of the [Fe(BPAbipyH)]2+ CO2 reduction catalyst using ultrafast X-ray techniques - Hao Wang (EuXFEL)

10:00 AM Coupled nuclear and electronic dynamics during proton transfer observed with combined experimental and computational resonant inelastic x-ray scattering - Amke Nimmrich (University of Washington)

10:20 AM Resolving Mechanistic Pathways in Bioinorganic Catalysis via Ultrafast X-ray Spectroscopy - Rebeca Gomez Castillo (Max Planck Institute CEC (Germany))
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM Structural Dynamics II
Structural Dynamics II
11:10 AM - 12:40 PM
Contributions

11:10 AM Towards femtochemistry X-ray studies of catalysis on surfaces under operando - Martin Beye

11:40 AM Phonon Transport and Polaron Formation with Mode, Momentum and Time Resolution using Ultrafast Electron Diffuse Scattering (UEDS) - Bradley Siwick (Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry, Center for the Physics of Materials (CPM), McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

12:00 PM Applications of optical crystallography to ultrafast X-ray crystallography for structural dynamics. - Jasper van Thor (Imperial College London)

12:20 PM Probing Ultrafast Photoinduced Structural Dynamics in Molecular Solutions using Angular X-ray Cross-Correlation Analysis - Ruslan Kurta (European XFEL)
12:40 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:40 PM - 2:10 PM
2:10 PM Materials II
Materials II
2:10 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:10 PM Ultrafast dynamics of colloidal plexcitonic nanohybrids studied by 2D electronic spectroscopy - elisabetta collini (Università di Padova)

2:40 PM Probing Surface and Interface Carrier Dynamics via Ultrafast Scanning Electron Microscopy - Lijie Wang (KAUST)

3:00 PM Dynamic control of electron correlations in photodoped charge-transfer insulators - Thomas C. Rossi (Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie)

3:20 PM Excitation Energy Transfer and Diffusion in Synthetic Light-Harvesting Nanoparticles - Jérémie Léonard (Université de Strasbourg & CNRS, IPCMS, UMR 7504, F-67200 Strasbourg, France.)
3:40 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
4:10 PM Structural Dynamics III
Structural Dynamics III
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:10 PM The combined electronic and nuclear structure molecular movie for a conical intersection - Markus Guhr (DESY)

4:40 PM Chemical dynamics of microsolvated (bio)molecules - Jochen Küpper (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

5:00 PM Unveiling the wavelength dependent ultrafast relaxation of solvated thymidine with extreme ultraviolet time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy and simulations - Mario Taddei (University of Bologna)

5:20 PM Solvation Shells and Simulation Cells: Advances in modeling X-ray Solution Scattering for Time-Resolved Studies - Asmus Ougaard Dohn (DTU Physics)

5:40 PM Electron transfer-induced misfolding of prion proteins studied by ultrafast X-ray absorption - Wojciech Gawelda (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid / IMDEA Nanoscience)
6:00 PM Poster Session 3
Poster Session 3
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Friday, June 27, 2025

8:00 AM

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Materials II
Materials II
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Singlet fission contributes to solar energy harvesting in photosynthesis - Jenny Clark (University of Sheffield)

9:30 AM Deciphering the ultrafast photobehavior of benzothiadiazole-based HOFs and its molecular units: experimental and theoretical insights into their spectroscopic properties in solution and in the solid state - Abderrazzak Douhal (Universidad de Castilla la Mancha)

9:50 AM RF-compressed, THz-streaked ultrafast electron diffraction at high repetition rates with direct detection - Kasra Amini (Max-Born-Institut)

10:10 AM Linear and Ultrafast Optical Diffusion-Ordered SpectroscopY sheds new light on nanoparticles, amyloids, and mixed solutions - Giulia Giubertoni (University of Amsterdam)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Materials III
Materials III
11:00 AM - 12:20 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Field-driven virtual charge dynamics in dielectrics - Matteo Lucchini (Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 20133 Milano, Italy)

11:30 AM Ultrafast Quantum Optics for Femtochemistry and Biological Applications - Mohammed Hassan (University of Arizona)

12:00 PM Resonantly enhanced X-ray impulsive vibrational spectroscopy in trigonal tellurium - Oliviero Cannelli (Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany)
12:20 PM Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
12:20 PM - 12:30 PM