The XRM 2026 conference addresses the most recent advances in X-ray microscopy science and technology as well as state-of-the-art applications in a wide range of science disciplines through a program of lectures, communications, posters, exhibitors, and social interaction.

In addition, the satellite workshop ‘Instruments for X-ray Imaging with Nanoscale Resolution and Multimodal Techniques’ focuses on instrumentation, current beamline developments, and forthcoming challenges and opportunities in the field of X-ray nanoscopy.

Workshop XRM 2026 Conference
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
8h00 Reception
8h30
9h00 Reception Welcome Plenary Plenary Plenary Plenary
9h30 Welcome Plenary
10h00 Invited Oral Oral Oral Oral Oral
10h30 Break Break Break Break Break
11h00 Break Plenary Keynote Plenary Plenary Plenary
11h30 Invited Oral Oral Oral Oral
11h45 Oral
12h00
12h30 WMI+awards
13h00 Lunch break Lunch break Lunch break Lunch break Lunch break Lunch break
14h00 Invited Plenary Plenary Oral Plenary XRM 2028
14h30 Oral Oral Oral Summary
15h00 Free afternoon Closing
15h30 Break Break Break Break Break
16h00 LNLS Visit Sponsor Poster Slam Sponsor Poster Slam Sponsor Poster Slam LNLS Visit
16h30
17h00 Poster A Poster B Poster C
17h30
18h00 Transfer
18h30 Welcome
19h00 Transfer
19h30 Social Dinner
20h00
22h00

Scientific topics

  • Cultural and Natural Heritage
  • Energy and Functional Materials
  • Porous Materials and Multiphase Flow
  • Earth and Environmental Science
  • Biological and Biomedical Science
  • New Materials and Condensed Matter
  • New Technologies and Methods

Technical topics

  • Mapping with Multiple Contrasts and Tomography
  • Spectromicroscopy
  • Coherent X-rays: Foundations and Applications
  • Innovation in Instruments, Optics, and Detectors
  • New Experimental Setups and Protocols
  • Beamline Development and Commissioning
  • Software and AI-related Developments

XRM Keynote Speaker

XRM Plenary Speakers

Changyong Song
Changyong Song

POSTECH (South Korea)

Single-Pulse XFEL X-ray Microscopy for Imaging Ultrafast Nonequilibrium Reactions in Single Nanoparticles

Erik Lauridsen
Erik Lauridsen

Xnovo Technology ApS (Denmark)

Capabilities of Lab-Based Diffraction Contrast Tomography and Its Comparison with Synchrotron Techniques

Grant van Riessen
Grant van Riessen

La Trobe University (Australia)

Talk title to be announced

Workshop Invited Speakers

Gabriel Moreno
Gabriel Moreno

LNLS/CNPEM (Brazil)

Engineering High-Stability Beamline Instrumentation for Advanced X-ray Microscopy at Sirius

Guangcai Chang
Guangcai Chang

Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)

NAMI: A new Hard X-ray Nanoprobe Multimodal Imaging Beamline in HEPS

Karina Thanell
Karina Thanell

MAX IV / Lund University (Sweden)

X-ray microscopy and coherence at MAX IV