Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Edwin-Scharff-Haus, Silcherstraße 40, 89231 Neu-Ulm
Date: Monday, 28/July/2025
8:15am
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8:30am
OPENING: OPENING
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Boris Mizaikoff
8:30am
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9:30am
PL 1: Plenary Lecture 1
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Boris Mizaikoff
 

TOWARD AFFORDABLE PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE - How basic science addresses grand challenges

Ferenc Krausz

9:35am
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10:20am
K 1: Keynote Lecture
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Boris Mizaikoff
 

Spectroscopy in the Operating Theatre – A Surgeon’s View

Ioannis Vasilikos

10:45am
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11:30am
PL 2: Plenary Lecture 2
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Christian Huck
 

Spectral Signatures of the Past: Advancing Spectroscopy in Heritage Science

Francesca Rosi

11:35am
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12:20pm
OP 1: Clinical & Medical Analysis
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Mihaela Zigman
 

Ligand-functionalized plasmonic nanoplatforms for selective detection and redox profiling of hemoglobin via surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Janani Balasubramanian, Daria Ruth Galimberti, Matteo Tommasini, Sebastiano Trusso, Olena Zenkina, Brad Easton, Nisha Agarwal



Enhancing spectroscopy based diagnosis through in-silico modelling of the infrared spectrum of urine

Victor Navarro-Esteve, Angel Sánchez-Illana, José Portoles, María Marques Vidas, Antonio Sanchez-Lopez, David Perez Guaita



Enhanced Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) techniques for autism diagnosis in children

Rosalba Gaudiuso, Milica Vinic, Immacolata Concetta Tommasi, Andrea De Giacomo, Caterina Gaudiuso, Francesco Paolo Mezzapesa, Antonio Santagata, Maria Lucia Pace, Lucrezia Catanzaro, Luisa D'Urso, Giuseppe Romano Compagnini

1:20pm
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2:05pm
PL 3: Plenary Lecture 3
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Jose Manuel Costa-Fernandez
 

Spectroscopy without Borders: Empowering Global Solutions through Portable Technology

Christian Huck

2:10pm
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2:40pm
K 3: Keynote Lecture
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Jose Manuel Costa-Fernandez
 

Transforming Agri-Food Analysis: Harnessing Near-Infrared Spectroscopy for Non-Invasive Sensors

Ana Soldado, Candela Melendreras García, Jesús Alfonso Montero García, Francisco Javier Ferrero Martín, José Manuel Costa Férnandez

2:40pm
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3:10pm
K 4: Keynote Lecture
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Jose Manuel Costa-Fernandez
 

Overcoming matrix determination constraints in X-ray Fluorescence: recent improvements in biomarker determination capabilities

Sofia Pessanha

4:15pm
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5:45pm
OP 5: Laser Spectroscopy
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Vjekoslav Kokoric
 

Development of a Fast Autofocus Hand-Held Closed-looped Fiber-Optic Raman Probe

Weizhi Yang, David Vasquez, Ines Latka, Jürgen Popp, Iwan Schie



Quantum Cascade Lasers as Versatile Mid-Infrared Sources for Spectroscopy

Kamil Pierscinski, Dorota Pierscinska, Dominika Niewczas, Katarzyna Pieniak, Michał Nagowski, Agata Krzastek, Artur Broda, Aleksander Kuzmicz



Recent developments and innovations at nanoplus on MIR-LASER-, LED- and PD-Interband and Quantum Cascade technologies

Lars Hildebrandt



Nanoscale Infrared Microscopy for Advanced Energy Materials

Sergiu Amarie



Miniaturized fiber coupled array spectrometer for parallel distributed sensing applications

Martin Hubold, Dirk Michaelis, Peter Dannberg, Robert Leitel, Thomas Flügel-Paul, Norbert Danz



Enhanced wide-field photothermal mid-infrared imaging for biological specimens and microplastics

Anooj Thayyil Raveendran, Supatcharee Cael, Subham Adak, Juergen Popp, Christoph Krafft

Date: Tuesday, 29/July/2025
9:00am
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9:45am
PL 4: Plenary Lecture 4
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Boris Mizaikoff
 

Harnessing Biophotonics and Artificial Intelligence for Biomedical and Clinical Applications

Juergen Popp

9:50am
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10:50am
OP 7: CATALIGHT Session
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Boris Mizaikoff
 

Spectroscopy for Photoreaction Engineering (invited talk)

Dirk Ziegenbalg



Electrochemistry Meets Mid-IR Spectroscopy

Christine Kranz, Boris Mizaikoff



UV-induced photochemistry of diaminomaleonitrile, (HCN)4 oligomer

Igor Reva, Hanna Rostkowska, Leszek Lapinski

11:30am
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12:00pm
K 5: Keynote Lecture
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Boris Mizaikoff
 

Advanced Optical Spectroscopy for Material Characterization

Benjamin Dietzek-Ivanšić

12:00pm
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12:45pm
PL 8: Plenary Lecture 8
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Boris Mizaikoff
 

Infrared molecular fingerprinting to profile the intricacies of health and disease

Mihaela Zigman

1:45pm
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2:30pm
PL 5: Plenary Lecture 5
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Boris Mizaikoff
 

Physics- and chemistry-aware data modelling in infrared spectroscopy

Achim Kohler, Uladzislau Blazhko, Eirik Magnussen

2:35pm
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3:05pm
K 6: Keynote Lecture
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Maria Chiara Sportelli
 

Tuning fork-based gas sensing and spectroscopy

Vincenzo Spagnolo

3:05pm
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3:35pm
K 7: Keynote Lecture
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Maria Chiara Sportelli
 

Infrared Nanoscopy

Georg Ramer

4:30pm
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5:45pm
OP 13: Nanotechnology
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Goreti Pereira
 

Cutting-Edge Analysis of Clinical Biomarkers: Boosting Optical Sensitivity with Gold Nanoparticles and AF4-MALS-ICP-MS/MS (invited talk)

Jose Manuel Costa-Fernandez, Maria T. Fernandez-Arguelles, Jorge Ruiz Encinar, Ana Soldado



Speciation of arsenic metabolites in human urine and studies of arsenic methylation

Chris Le, Tetiana Davydiuk, Xiufen Lu



AF4/ICP-ToF-MS for investigating mercury associated with silica nanoparticles as a mitigation strategy in soybeans cultivated in contaminated soils: Impacts on plant metabolism

Vinnicius Cerqueira Silva, Lhiam Paton, Andrea Raab, Jörg Feldmann, Marco Aurelio Zezzi Arruda



Bridging Molecular Fingerprinting and Mass Detection: Dual SERS–MS Readout on a Digital Microfluidic Chip

Anish Das, Detlev Belder

5:45pm
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6:05pm
FT: Flash Talks Industry
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Vjekoslav Kokoric
Bruker Optics GmbH & Co. KG (https://www.bruker.com/en.html)
Photothermal Spectroscopy Corporation GmbH (https://www.photothermal.com/)
Shimadzu Europa GmbH (https://www.shimadzu.eu/about/shimadzu-europa-gmbh.html)
Toray Industries Europe GmbH (https://www.toray.eu/de)
Date: Wednesday, 30/July/2025
9:00am
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9:45am
PL 6: Plenary Lecture 6
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Boris Mizaikoff
 

Photothermal infrared spectroscopy for gas and liquid sensing: From benchtop set-ups to integrated photonics

Bernhard Lendl

9:50am
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10:50am
OP 15: Materials Science
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Jacob Shelley
 

Bridging Structure and Electronic State: Real-time XES–XRD Fusion for Functional Alloys (invited talk)

Ana Guilherme Buzanich, C. Tufan Cakir, Martin Radtke, Myroslava Horiacha, Ryan C. Morrow, Ernesto Scoppola, Tomasz M. Stawski, Christian G. F. Blum, Franziska Emmerling, Sabine Wurmehl



Analysis of dual-element nanoparticles using Laser Ablation - Single Particle-Quadrupole-ICP-MS

Laura Kronlachner, Elias Foisner, David Ken Gibbs, Andreas Limbeck



Construction Waste Recovery using Hyperspectral Imaging and Chemometric Analysis

Giuseppe Bonifazi, Riccardo Gasbarrone, Davide Gattabria, Roberta Palmieri, Silvia Serranti

11:15am
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11:45am
K 8: Keynote Lecture
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Marco Arruda
 

LIBS in Extreme Environments

Marcel Rieck, Benjamin Emde, Jörg Hermsdorf

11:45am
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12:15pm
K 9: Keynote Lecture
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Marco Arruda
 

Comparative in-situ Mössbauer and vibrational spectroscopic view on fresh and dry microbial cells: Implications for biotechnology

Alexander A. Kamnev

Date: Thursday, 31/July/2025
9:00am
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9:45am
PL 7: Plenary Lecture 7
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Jan Kratzer
 

Advancing Trace Element Analysis with Atomic and Plasma Spectroscopy: Molecules and Nanoparticles

Ryszard Lobinski

9:50am
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10:50am
OP 19: Atomic and Plasma Spectroscopy
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Jan Kratzer
 

Decomposition of Hypertension and Depression Drugs by Pyrohydrolysis and further Halogen Determination by Ion Chromatography and ICP-MS (invited talk)

Érico FLORES



Investigating the Two-Phase Transport of Carbon, Sulfur, and Chlorine in Polymer Matrices and its Implications for LA-ICP-Q-MS

David Ken Gibbs, Lukas Brunnbauer, Chiara Egger, Detlef Günther, Andreas Limbeck

11:15am
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1:00pm
OP 21: Atomic and Plasma Spectroscopy
Location: Room "Großer Saal"
Chair: Kerstin Leopold
 

From known to new molecules: multimodal platform towards non-target speciomics (invited talk)

Marco Arruda, Lilian Kato, Vinnicius Silva, Diego Andrade, Guilherme Cruz, Jorge Pedrobom



Speciation, characterization and quantification of ultra small gold nanoparticles using graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry

Dominik Blaimer, Kerstin Leopold



A novel atmospheric pressure glow discharge-based hydride atomizer for atomic absorption spectrometry

Nikol Vlčková, Edvard Sidoryk, Milan Svoboda, Gilberto Coelho, Krzysztof Greda, Jan Kratzer



Development of novel atmospheric-pressure discharge atomizers for hydride forming elements

Milan Svoboda, Jan Kratzer, Nikol Vlčková, Gilberto Coelho, Krzysztof Greda, Martina Mrkvičková, Tomáš Medek, Nima Bolouki, Jan Čech, Pavel Dvořák



Mechanistic studies of hydride atomization and preconcentration in ambient plasmas for trace element analysis by atomic spectrometry (invited talk)

Jan Kratzer, Milan Svoboda, Nikol Vlčková, Waseem Khan, Martina Mrkvičková, Jan Čech, Pavel Dvořák

1:00pm
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1:25pm
Closing: CLOSING CEREMONY & POSTER AWARDS
Location: Room "Großer Saal"