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 - Monday
 
Auditorium     Nausica 2     Nausica 3
 

  Monday 24 August

  Tuesday 25 August

  Wednesday 26 August

  Thursday 27 August

  Friday 28 August

 

1 8h45
Welcome and introduction
1 9h00
Plenary lecture (P1)
chair: Hans Robert KALBITZER
Cathy ROYER   (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA)
Pressure-based mapping of protein functional landscape

10h00
Coffee and tea break
10h30
Sessions T1.1 , T8.1 & T9.1
10h30
T1.1 Bio/Life Sciences, Food Science and Technology
chair: Cathy ROYER 
  • Invited:  Mohamed JEBBAR, University of Brest, France -  Thermococcales in the Deep Sea: Adaptation to High Hydrostatic Pressure    

  • Antonio Diego MOLINA-GARCIA, ICTAN-CSIC, Spain -   Different activities of a hydrolase under pressure 

  • Invited:  Tone Mari RODE, NOFIMA, Stavanger, Norway -  The use of HPP as a tool for microbial control and quality preservation in modern food systems  

  • Laurence POTTIER, Oniris, Nantes, France -  Effect of High Pressure on pea protein digestibility 

  • Christian ROUMESTAND, University of Montpellier, France -  Do similar folding pathways mean similar folds? A comparative High-Hydrostatic-Pressure NMR folding study of ß-sandwich proteins 

10h30
T8.1  Spectroscopic and Structural studies
chair: Katarzyna JARZEMBSKA 
  • Mael GUENNOU, University of Luxembourg -  Infrared Spectroscopy Studies of Perovskite Oxides at High Pressures 

  • Mohamad Baker SHOKER, University of Luxembourg -  Re-emergence of a Polar Instability at High Pressure in KNbO₃ 

  • Suvashree MUKHERJEE, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata -  Probing Pressure-Induced Structural Evolution and Its Impact on the Optical Behavior of Rb₂TeBr₆ 

  • Fernando RODRÍGUEZ, University of Cantabria, Pressure-Enhanced Ferromagnetism in Cs₂CrCl₄ Studied by Optical Spectroscopy 

  • Yang SONG, University of Western Ontario -   Pressure-Induced Structural and Optoelectronic Modulations in 2D Dion-Jacobson Hybrid Lead Iodide Perovskites with a Rigid Spacer 

  • Anna CELESTE, ENS Paris Saclay -  X-Ray Pump-Probe Study of Diamond Formation with and without Color Centers 

10h30
T9.1  Theoretical and Computational approaches
chair: Silvana RADESCU 
  • Invited: Eva ZUREK, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA -
  • Stanislaw KRUKOWSKI, Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland -  High Pressure Melting vs Decomposition of GaN: ab initio Molecular Dynamics Study and comparison to the experimental data 

  • Valery LEVITAS, Iowa State University of Science and Technology, USA -  Atomistic Mechanisms of Shear-Induced LDA↔HDA Transformations and Shear Banding in Amorphous Silicon under High Pressures 

  • Francisco Javier MANJÓN, Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain - Hydrogen bond disappearance and electron-deficient multicenter bond formation in compressed hydrogen halides 

  • Timothy LEES, Linköpings University, Linköping, Sweden - Rapid Mechanical Property Prediction using Wyckoff Set Regression for Scalable Materials Exploration 

12h30
Lunch break
14h00
Sessions T2.1 & T7.1
14h00
T2.1 Chemistry, Synthesis, Novel materials
chair: Mathieu MARCHIVIE 
  • Invited:  Frederico ALABARSE, Sincrotrone ELETTRA Trieste -  Tuning thermal expansion and mechanical properties by high pressure insertion of guest molecules

  • Igor ABRIKOSOV, Linköping University, Sweden -  Metastable states of matter: a path towards new 2D and 1D materials 

  • Invited: Stanislow KRUKOWSKI, Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw -   Nitrogen dissolution in Liquid Ga and Fe at high pressure by ab Initio analysis – application to crystallization of GaN and BN 

  • Elena BYKOVA, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany -  Influence of volatiles on the chemistry of Fe-O system 

  • Dominik KURZYDLOWSKI, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland -  High-pressure experiments on XePtF6 – the first noble gas compound 

14h00
T7.1   Simple Systems and Experiments at extreme conditions
chair: Eva ZUREK 
  • Invited: Frédéric Datchi, IMPMC, Paris, France - Experimental X-ray Studies of Liquid Polymorphism 

  • Invited: Guglielmo MARCHESE, CSIC - ICMAB - Raman fingerprint of high-temperature superconductivity in compressed hydrides 

  • Mélissa TECHER,   LuMIn, ENS Paris-Saclay -   Probing superconductivity at very low temperature and high pressure using NV centers in diamond 

  • Roman MARTOŇÁK, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic - From diamond to BC8 to simple cubic and back: Kinetic pathways to post-diamond carbon phases from metadynamics

  • Wan XU, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences -  High pressure studies of dense oxygen and nitrogen binary mixtures 

16h00
Poster session 1  and coffee & tea break
17h30
Sessions T2.2  &  T9.2
17h30
T2.2   Chemistry, Synthesis, Novel materials
chair: Frederico ALABARSE  
  • Foramben PRAJAPATI, ICMCB-CNRS, Bordeaux, France -  Shaping Spin-Crossover Molecular Ceramics through Cool-SPS for Efficient Barocaloric Refrigeration 

  • Cristian MARINO, UniFi-LENS, European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy, Florence -  Abiotic formation of organic complexity from multicomponent ice analogue via high-pressure photochemistry 
  • Yolanda SABATER ALGARRA, University of Kent, United-Kingdom -  Towards Sustainable Spin-Crossover Materials through Mechanochemical One-Pot Synthesis 
17h30
T9.2  Theoretical and Computational approaches
chair: Alfonso MUÑOZ GONZALES  
  • Julia CONTRERAS, LCT, Université Sorbonne, Paris, France -  Machine-learned electron localization in dense hydrogen 

  • Leonid BURAKOVSKY, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA -  Model for equation of state and solidus and liquidus for a mixture for description of high-entropy alloys 

  • Ethan TURNER, Curtin University of Perth, Perth, Australia -  Machine-learning simulations predict phase transformation of fullerite in a diamond-anvil cell