Congress Symposia

This information is subject to change.

Instrumentation 

Diffraction and 4D-STEM

Session Chairs: Colin Ophus (USA) and Jian-min Zuo (Australia)

Dynamical, In-situ & Environmental Microscopy

Session Chairs: Eva Olsson (Sweden) and Utkur Mirsaidov (Singapore)

Advances in phase imaging techniques

Session Chairs: David Muller (USA) and Vincenzo Grillo (Italy) 

Quantitative and Multimode 3D Imaging

Session Chairs: John Miao (USA) and Julie Cairney (Australia) 

Surface Imaging and Analysis Techniques (SEM , FIB, LEEM, PEEM and Helium microscopy etc. )

Session Chairs: Andras Vladar (USA) and Wenxin Tang (China)

Scanning Probe Microscopy + Light Microscopy

Session Chairs: Sorin Stanescu (UK)

Advanced in Spectroscopy and Spectral Imaging Technique

Session Chairs: Demie Kepaptsoglou (UK) and Donald MacLaren (UK)

 

Life Sciences

Light Microscopy - Live Imaging Cells, Tissues, Organs and Organisms

Session Chairs: Kurt Anderson (UK) and Helen Ishikawa-Ankerhold (Germany)

Light Microscopy - Resolution revolution in light microscopy

Session Chairs: Ralf Jungmann (Germany), Ilaria Testa (Sweden)

Light Microscopy - Volumetric Imaging

Session Chairs: Joerg Bewersdorf (USA), Amanda Foust (UK)

Light Microscopy - Democratisation and widening access to microscopy

Session Chairs: Richard Bowman (UK) and Jan Huisken (Germany) 

Electron Microscopy - Cryo-ET - Macromolecular imaging in cells, organoids and tissue

Session Chairs: Elizabeth Wright (USA) and Jurgen Plitzko (Germany)

Electron Microscopy - Cryo- EM – innovations in macromolecular structure determination 

Session Chairs: Arjen Jakobi (Netherlands) and Rouslan Efremov (Belgium)

Electron Microscopy -Volume imaging

Session Chairs: Lucy Collinson (UK) and Leandro Lemgruber (UK)

Enabling technologies - Machine Learning in Biological Imaging

Session Chairs: Juliette Griffié (Sweden)

Multimodal imaging - Plant sciences

Session Chairs: to be confirmed

Multimodal imaging - Biomineralisation

Session Chairs: Michael Elbaum (Israel) and Fabio Nudelman (UK)

Multimodal imaging - Neurosciences

Session Chairs: to be confirmed 

Multimodal imaging - Imaging pathogen biology from structure to mechanism 

Session Chairs: Dan Hurdiss (Netherlands) and Shee-Mei Lok (Singapore) 

 

Physical Sciences

Soft materials, polymers, pharmaceuticals and beam sensitive materials

Session Chairs:  Xiaodong Zou (Sweeden) and Sonia Antoranz Contera (UK)

2D Materials

Session Chairs: Juan Carlos Idrobo (USA) and Ute Kaiser (Germany)

Nanomaterials and Catalysts

Session Chairs: Qian Chen (USA) and Marc Willenger (Germany)

Functional ceramics and oxides

Session Chairs: Maria Varela (USA) and Miaofang Chi (USA)

Structural materials, metals and alloys

Session Chairs: Laure Bourgeois (Australia) 

Earth and planetary materials

Session Chairs: Christian Vollmer (Germany)

Magnetic behaviour and Ferroelectrics

Session Chairs: Naoya Shibata (Japan) and Xuiliang Ma (China)

Semiconductors, quantum and ICT

Session Chairs: Rebecca Nicholls (UK) and David Smith (USA)

Energy storage and conversion

Session Chairs: Chongmin Wang (USA) and Jordi Arbiol (Spain)

Radiation damage, nuclear energy

Session Chairs: Jonathan Hinks (UK) and Chris Russo (UK)

Phase transformations and high speed dynamics 

Session Chairs: Renske van der Veen (Netherlands) and William Bryan (UK)

 

Last updated: 26/09/2025