Confirmed Invited Speakers

Sakura Pascarelli (European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL) facility, Germany)

Keynote speaker:

Sakura Pascarelli received a Laurea in Physics at the University La Sapienza (Rome, Italy) and a PhD degree in Physics at the University Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France). Her research activity with X-rays started at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN, Laboratory Nazionali di Frascati, Italy) in 1990. After joining the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF, Grenoble, France) in 1993, her scientific career evolved around the development of methods to probe the local and electronic structure of condensed matter by synchrotron X-rays. In the past 25 years, her main scientific interest was the investigation of matter at extreme conditions of pressure, temperature and magnetic fields. She was in charge of the x-ray absorption spectroscopy beamlines ID24 (1997-2019) and BM23 (2000-2019), Head of the Electronic Structure and Magnetism Group (2012-2015) and Head of the Matter at Extremes Group (2015-2019). In September 2019 she joined the European XFEL (Hamburg, Germany) as Scientific Director responsible for the development of the scientific program of the four hard X-ray instruments. Sakura serves as President of AIRAPT since 2023.

Björn Winkler (Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany)

Keynote speaker:

Björn Winkler is the head of the crystallography-mineralogy group at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt a.M. in Germany. He received a diploma in Mineralogy / Crystallography from the Technical University of Berlin. He obtained his PhD in Mineral Physics in Cambridge (UK), and then worked as a post doc in the field of neutron scattering at the Center for nuclear studies in Saclay (France). Afterwards, he became an assistant professor in Kiel (Germany). Since 2002, he is full professor in Frankfurt. His main interest is understanding structure-property relations of crystalline materials. He has been awarded the Max-von-Laue Award of the German Crystallographic Society, the Albert-Maucher Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Award of the German Mineralogical Society, the European Mineralogical Union Medal for Research excellence and the MSI Academic Award. He is a fellow of the American Mineralogical Society since 1998 and was the Los Alamos National Laboratory “Wheatley Scholar” in 2010/2011. He was elected member of the AIRAPT Executive Committee in 2009.

Yusheng Zhao (赵予生) (Eastern Institute of Technology, China) 

Keynote speaker:

Yusheng Zhao is a chair professor and the senior advisor to the president at the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) in Ningbo, China. He received his B.S. and M.S. in geophysics from Peking University, and his Ph.D. in mineral physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He worked as a post doc at Caltech and LANL (1992-1996), and then as a staff scientist and a team leader at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) (1996 to 2012). From 2010 to 2016, he was the executive director of the High Pressure Science and Engineering Center (HiPSEC) and a full professor at UNLV. He joined the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) as a chair professor in 2015 and served many top administrative posts including the SUSTech VP for Research and Dean of Advanced Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies. He was on the board of directors of the Material Research Society (MRS) from 2019 to 2021. His research areas span high-pressure physics, geophysics, and crystal chemistry. He specializes in the study of the structural changes under external forces and focuses on the correlations between structure and physical properties and between processing and functional performance. He is the founder of the high-pressure neutron diffractometer at the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS), and played important roles in the establishment of many other research facilities including Los Alamos LANSCE-HIPPO, Oakridge SNS-SNAP, Brookhaven NSLS-X17, and Argonne APS-HPCAT. He is the author of more than 400 publications and the holder of more than 80 patents.

Ricardo Donizeth dos Reis (SIRIUS, Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS), Brazil) 

Emre S. Tasci (Hacettepe University, Turkey) 

Shichuan Sun (孙士川) (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Sandro Scandolo (Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy)

Alex V. Soldatov (Yanshan University, China)

Saori Kawaguchi (河口 沙織) (Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute; Now at DECTRICS, Japan)

Jaeyong Kim (김재용 金載容) (Hanyang University, Korea)

Ying Sun (孙莹) (Jilin University, China)

Chrystele Sanloup (Sorbonne University, France)

Mohamed Mezouar (ESRF, France)

Asami Sano-Furukawa (佐野 亜沙美) (J-PARC, Japan) 

Hualei Sun (孙华蕾) (Sun Yat-sen University, China) 

Zhiyu He (贺芝宇) (Shanghai Institute of Laser Plasma, CAEP, China)

Artem Chanyshev (University of Bayreuth, Germany)

Panpan Kong (孔盼盼) (Institute of Physics, CAS, China)

Maxim Bykov (Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany)

Pre-recoreded invited lectures:

Vitali Prakapenka (GSECARS/APS, University of Chicago, USA)

Elena Boldyreva (Novosibirsk State University, Russia)

Daniel Errandonea (University of Valencia, Spain)

Steven Jacobsen (University of Colorado, USA)