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 - Tuesday
 
Auditorium     Nausica 2     Nausica 3
 

  Monday 24 August

  Tuesday 25 August

  Wednesday 26 August

  Thursday 27 August

  Friday 28 August

 

1 9h00
Plenary lecture (P2)
chair: Francisco Javier MANJON
Dominique LANIEL   (University of Edinburgh, UK)
A First Foray into High-Pressure Carbonitride Wonderland

10h00
Coffee and tea break
10h30
Sessions T3.1 & T6.1
10h30
T3.1  Electronic, Magnetic, Caloric and Transport properties
chair: Jiri PRCHAL
  • Invited:  Dmitrii SEMENOK , HPSTAR, Beijing, China - Ultrastable Metal Polyhydrides Below 60 GPa 

  • Chunhui YE, University of Science and Technology of China, China - Pressure-Induced Flat Bands and Zero-Field Chern States in Large-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene 

  • Yupeng WANG, University of Science and Technology of China, China - High-Pressure Tuning of Dynamic Magic-Angle Correlated States in Twisted Bilayer Graphene 

  • Matthias LAMP, Experimentalphysik II, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany - Charge dynamics in the Weyl semimetals NbIrTe4 and TaIrTe4 under pressure: Signatures of an electronic phase transition 

10h30
T6.1  High-Pressure Crystallography
Session in honor of Michael HANFLAND
chair: Marco MERLINI
  • Invited: Anna PAKHOMOVA, ESRF, Grenoble, France -   Clathrate hydrates at high pressure: The cases of methanol enclathration

  • Daniel ERRANDONEA, Universidad de Valencia, Spain -Theory-guided discovery of pressure-induced transitions in the fast-ion conductor BaSnF4 

  • Benedetta CHRAPPAN SOLDAVINI, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - High Pressure and High Temperature polymorphism of Na2CO3 up to 10 GPa 

  • Davide COMBONI, Università di Milano, Italy - ID15b and Hydrated borates at High-pressure 

  • Tomasz POREBA, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland - Cryogenic stabilization of molecular hydrogen in dense cubic ice 

12h30
Lunch break
14h00
Sessions T3.2 & T8.2
14h00
T3.2 Electronic, Magnetic, Caloric and Transport properties
chair: Daniel ERRANDONEA
  • Invited:  Jonathan BUHOT, H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, Bristol, UK - Thin-Film Hydride Superconductors: A New Platform to Study Near-Room-Temperature Superconductivity at Megabar Pressures 

  • Alexander TSIRLIN, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany - Herbertsmithite: pressure evolution of a spin liquid 

  • Jaroslav VALENTA, Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic - Pressure dependence of tricriticality in UIrSi3 

  • Naveen DHAMI, Synchrotron Soleil, Gif-sur-Yvette, France - Pressure dependence of Eu valence, crystal structure and electrical resistivity of EuTGe3 (T = Co, Rh and Ir) 

  • Manisha YADAV, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, India - Superconducting Phase of BiTe at High pressure 

14h00
T8.2   Spectroscopic and Structural studies
chair: Barbara LAVINA 
  • Invited: Néha BURA,  Universidad de Valencia, Spain  -  Hydrated Carbonates under Pressure 

  • Vittoria PISCHEDDA, Université Lyon1, France - High-Pressure Multi-Probe Studies of  Lithium-Ion Battery Materials 

  • Ece UYKUR, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Kagome Metals under Pressure: Dimensionality Crossover and Fermi Surface Reconstructions 

  • Harsha KUMAWAT, High Pressure & Synchrotron Radiation Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre; Homi Bhabha National Institute - Pressure–Temperature Phase Diagram of Diglycine Perchlorate 

16h00
Coffee & tea break
16h30
Sessions T5.1, T6.2 & T7.2
16h30
T5.1   Instrumentation, Metrology and Techniques
chair: Karin APPEL   
  • Invited: Nicolas Guignot, SOLEIL synchrotron, St Aubin, France - A multi-technical approach to the study of the physical properties of materials. Examples from the PSICHE beamline, Synchrotron SOLEIL 

  • Raffaella TORCHIO, ESRF, Grenoble, France - The High-Power Laser Facility at ESRF: local and electronic structure of matter up to Mbar range 

  • Samuel MARRE, ICMCB-CNRS, Bordeaux - France - Multi-Scale Transparent High Pressure Laboratory Experimental Approaches: Applications In Deep Environments Studies 

  • Ioannis TZIFAS, GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany - Structural transformations under coupled extremes of pressure and swift heavy ion irradiation 

  • Robert FARLA, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany - P61B LVP: The Large Volume Press station for in-situ X-ray diffraction and imaging on materials at HPHT 

16h30
T6.2   High-Pressure Crystallography
chair: Michael HANFLAND
  • Anna KRAWCZUK, University of Göttingen, Germany -  From Intermolecular Interactions to Functional Properties: Pressure-Tuned Behavior of π-Conjugated Molecular Crystals 
  • Milo AGATI, ESRF, France - How subtle differences in organic molecular crystals influence their structural evolution in compression 

  • Ewa PATYK-KAZMIERCZAK, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland - Putting Pressure on Multicomponent Crystals: Tuning Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Transformations via Compositional Engineering 

  • Sarah BOLTON, University of Edinburgh, UK - Pushing the 10 GPa Pressure Boundary for Organic Solids: Crystal Structure Determination of α-Glycine Above a Megabar 

  • Barbara LAVINA, University of Chicago and Argonne National. Lab, USA - The crystal structure of ruby up to 170 GPa 

  • Roman GAJDA, University of Warsaw, Poland - New look at phase diagram of cuprite under pressure 

16h30
T7.2   Simple Systems and Experiments at extreme conditions
chair: Nenad VELISAVLJEVIC
  • Emanuele COLONNA, ESRF, Grenoble, France - Microscopic Investigation of laser shocked glassy GeO2 
  • Amrita CHAKRABORTI, Université de Lille, France - Nanosecond timescale plasticity in shock-compressed polycrystalline MgO up to pressures above 100 GPa 

  • Valery LEVITAS, Iowa State University of Science and Technology, USA, Combined Strain- and Stress-Induced Phase Transformations and Microstructure Evolution under High Pressure 

  • Jun KONG, Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research - Compositions, structures, and properties of chlorides system under high pressure 

  • Duanwei HE, Sichuan University, China -  Phosphorus-Doped N-Type Diamond Semiconductors through High-Pressure Thermal Diffusion 

  • Guy MAKOV, Ben Gurion University, Israel -  Universal origin of anomalies in compressed liquid alkalis