Key dates: 2-2-2026 start registration --- 30-4-2026 end early bird --- 15-6-2026 end abstract submission
The (almost finished) program is available HERE. Details of the poster sessions HERE.

Programme by day - Thursday
 
Auditorium     Nausica 2     Nausica 3
 

 Monday 24 August

 Tuesday 25 August

 Wednesday 26 August

 Thursday 27 August

 Friday 28 August

 

1 9h00
Plenary lecture (P3)
chair: Vitali PRAKAPENKA
Maria del Carmen SÁNCHEZ VALLE   (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Hot compressed ices in exoplanetary interiors

10h00
Coffee and tea break  top industrie
10h30
Sessions T4.1, T5.2 & T8.3
10h30
T4.1 Geo- and Planetary Sciences
chair: Anna PAKHOMOVA
  • Isabelle DANIEL, University of Lyon, France - Forms of organic carbon at depth  

  • Vitali PRAKAPENKA , University of Chicago, USA -  Polymorphism of Superionic Ice at Planetary Interior 

  • Ben KALMAN , University of Western Ontario, Canada -  Heat flow within terrestrial cores from electrical resistivity measurements of Fe-Si to 24 GPa 

  • Konstantin SOLOVEV , GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany -  Influence of Iron on the Stiffness of Silicate Glasses: Insights from All-Optical Density Measurements of Enstatite–Ferrosilite Glasses at High Pressure 

  • Anastasiia KALUGINA, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany -  Insights into the Structure of Mn2+-dopped K2CO3-MgCO3 Glass at High Pressure from Time-resolved Laser Fluorescence 

10h30
T5.2  Instrumentation, Metrology and Techniques
chair:  Raffaella TORCHIO
  • Jose Luis RODRIGO RAMON, Universidad de Valencia, Spain - Benchmark melting behavior of rhodium under megabar pressures 

  • Jodie BRADBY, Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Australia - Simple measurement of the hardness of C60 samples recovered after compression to 75 GPa 

  • Evrard PEYRAQUE, Institut Charles Gerhardt, Montpellier, France - In situ Raman thermometry for temperature determination in externally heated diamond anvil cells 

  • Nenad VELISAVLJEVIC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and High Pressure Collaborative Access Team, Livermore, USA - New X-ray Light Sources, Innovative Pressure Platforms, and Advances in AI: Opportunities for High-Pressure Research 

  • Ingo LOA, Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions University of Edinburgh, UK - X-Ray Thermal Diffuse Scattering under High Pressure 

  • Nicolas JAISLE , Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions University of Edinburgh, UK - Determining thermal conductivity at extremes using X-ray Free Electron Lasers 
10h30
T8.3  Spectroscopic and Structural studies
chair: Fernando RODRIGUEZ 
  • Invited: Katarzyna JARZEMBSKA, University of Warsaw, Poland -  Red-to-NIR Optical Tuning in Rhodium(I) Complexes 

  • Stepan TIAGLO, Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306 Université Lyon 1, France -  High-Pressure Study of Wurtzite InP Nanowires 

  • Ajeesh Kumar SOMAKUMAR, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Pressure-Induced Phase Transition Study of LiYO₂:Eu³⁺, Gd³⁺ Phosphor 

  • Chiara COPPI, ESRF - European Synchrotron, Grenoble, France -  High-Pressure Study of Ferroelectric SbSI: From Long-Range Order to Local Probes 

  • Agata KAMINSKA, Institute of Physical Sciences, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland -  Application of High-Pressure Spectroscopy to Identify the UV Color Center in 2D Boron Nitride 

12h30
Lunch break
14h00
Sessions T1.2, T2.3 & T6.3
14h00
T1.2 Bio/Life Sciences, Food Science and Technology
chair: Isabelle DANIEL 
  • Invited:  Evina GONTIKAKI, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece, Simulating the Deep Sea: High-Pressure Experiments on Indigenous Microbial Bioremediation of Hydrocarbons 

  • Anaïs CARIO, ICMCB – CNRS, France - Fluid chemistry and mineral interactions as dual interfaces of microbial life in deep-sea vents under high-pressure conditions 

  • Invited: Judith PETERS, Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France - High pressure equipment for neutron scattering and applications 

  • Hans Robert KALBITZER, University of Regensburg, Germany - Use of high pressure in drug design 

  • Werner KREMER, University of Regensburg, Germany - Insights into the structure of invisible conformations of large methyl group labeled molecular machines from high pressure NMR 

14h00
T2.3   Chemistry, Synthesis, Novel materials
chair: Anna KRAWCZUK 
  • Invited: Demetrio SCELTA, LENS, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy - From CO2 clathrate hydrate to solid carbonic acid: high-pressure chemistry in astrochemical ices 

  • Dominik SPAHR, Institute of Geosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany - New carbonic acid compounds in the H-C-O system at elevated pressures 

  • Matteo CEPPATELLI, ICCOM-CNR, LENS, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy - Interlayer bond formation in arsenic at high pressure 

  • Alexander SOLDATOV, State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Yanshan University, China - Carbon materials design using high-pressure toolkit 

  • Xuejing HE, Eastern Institute for Advanced Study, Ningbo, China - High-pressure synthesis of a hafnium carbonitride hosting a hexazine ring 

14h00
T6.3   High-Pressure Crystallography
chair: Elena BYKOVA 
  • Robin FRÉVILLE, ESRF, France - Phase transition mechanism of the pressure-induced β↔γ transformations in tin 

  • Alexandre COURAC, IMPMC, Paris, France -  Na-Si phase diagram at HPHT 

  • Camino MARTÍN-SÁNCHEZ, University of Geneva, Switzerland - Is gold really stiffer at the nanoscale? 

  • Benjamin BERTIN, ICMCB, Bordeaux, France - Surfing Between Structure and Spin State: High-Pressure Studies of Spin Crossover Compound 

  • Apostolos PANTOUSAS, ESRF, University of Bayreuth, Germany - From [CO3] towards [CO4]: a high-pressure study of two novel hydrous carbonates 

  • Milo DIXON, University of Edinburgh, UK - Assessing Synthesis Pathways to Superconducting Mg2IrH

16h00
Poster session 2  and coffee & tea break
17h30
Sessions T2.4, T6.4 & T9.3
17h30
T2.4   Chemistry, Synthesis, Novel materials
chair: Vittoria PISCHEDDA   
  • Loïc TORAILLE, CEA/DAM ILE DE FRANCE, France -  Looking for ambient pressure superhydrides: application to the Y-Fe-H system 

  • Leon SCHÜTTE, ICGM, Montpellier, France - In-situ characterization of the High-Pressure High-Temperature synthesis of tetragonal Na2Si

  • Joao Pedro FALK DE CAMPOS, CNRS, Montpellier, France - Amorphous Silica obtained from the Zeolite Chabazite due to Structural Collapse under Mild Pressure-Temperature Conditions 

17h30
T6.4   High-Pressure Crystallography
chair: Maria del Carmen SANCHEZ VALLE   
  • Agnieszka HUĆ, Univerisity of Warsaw, Poland - High-pressure studies of hydrogen bonding in gypsum via Quantum Crystallography methods 

  • Dougal MCCULLOCH, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia -  Shear-driven formation of diamond during cold compression of graphite and glassy carbon 

  • Maxime JUIN, IMPMC, Paris, France - Understanding quartz polymorph's formation during impact events using dynamic compression 

17h30
T9.3   Theoretical and Computational approaches
chair: Florian TRYBEL   
  • Morgan REDINGTON, ICM2P, Poitiers, France -  Exploration of the Na-Si phase diagram and theoretical structure prediction of a layered sodium Zintl phase Na2Si3 

  • Ilia SHOLIN, Independent researcher, Bahrain - Introducing high-pressure physics into physics education through digital simulations

  • Shir BEN SHALOM, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel The Anomalous Melting of Antimony Hides a Liquid-State Transformation