Annual Meeting & Innovation Square
Registration now open
The Annual Meeting & Innovation Square is where we get together to assess the current status and results of our joint activities as well as engage in dialogues about how we can further develop LSI methodologies and innovative sustainable materials solutions.
Time: Wed 2025-12-03 09.46 - Thu 2025-12-04 14.30
Location: Scandic Rubinen, Gothenburg
Participating: All partners
Open invitation to partners and non-partners
The NEXT Competence Centre invites people to join an inspiring program showcasing materials research and innovation through the use of neutron and x-ray techniques. Hear updates from the NEXT Project Portfolio, find out about new research methods, reflect on how the emerging results can be further used and shape ideas for the future in the extended Innovation Square.
📅 3–4 December 2025 for partners, 3 December in the morning for non-partners
đź“Ť Scandic Rubinen, Gothenburg or online for the open session on the morning of 3 December
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Programme
3 December
09:30 Registration
09:45 Session 1. The NEXT Competence Centre – Outcomes and Outlook.
Open to non-partners who register here . In person at the Scandic Rubinen and digitally
- Keynote from the Director of the Centre, about this centre, outcomes to date and outlook
- Researcher briefings
- Inspirational briefings
Lunch 12:30
The remainder of the programme is for partners only.
13:30
Session 2. Outcomes and outlook from ACC 1 and ACC 2
Keynote on ACC 1 Stress, Strain, Damage and Failure by the ACC leader Magnus Hörnqvist Colliander (Chalmers University of Technology)
Researcher presentations
- Stresses and Damage on Ni -based superalloys during Thermal and Mechanical Cycling. Siddhay Maharao (Linköping University of Technology)
- Linking microstructure, texture and residual stress to fatigue behavior of structural steel: Possibilities with large-scale characterization techniques” Henrik Sieurin (Scania AB now TRATON SE)
- The grain size effects on martensitic transformation in austenitic steels: from grain-average to single-grain behavior studied by in-situ high-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction. Chen Cai (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Coffee
Keynote on ACC 2 Environmental effects on surface integrity by the ACC leader Konstantin Simonov (Swerim)
Researcher presentations
- Towards LSI characterisations for H-embrittlement related studies. Nuria Fuertes and Gabriel Spartacus (Swerim)
- Complementary characterisation methods for precipitates, impurities and light elements such as hydrogen. Sonia Guehairia (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Coffee
Innovation Square, with pitches and posters and workships - focussing on ACC 1 and ACC 2.
19:00 Evening meal
4 December from 09:00
Session 3. Outcomes and outlook from ACC 3 and ACC 4
Keynote on ACC 3 Manufacturing processes by the ACC leader Ru Peng (Linköping University)
Researcher presentations
- In-operando studies of coated tools. Axel Petterson (Linköping University)
- In-operando HEXRD measurements of workpiece material deformation during metal cutting. Henry Boyle (Linköping University)
- Exploring the influence of aging and composition on the precipitation behaviour of Ni-based superalloys – A diffraction and scattering study. Michael Musi (KTH Royal Institute of Technology).
- Advanced X-ray techniques for cellulosic composites’ chemical and atomic structures. Shun Yu (RISE)
Coffee
Keynote on ACC 4 High Throughput by the ACC leader Peter Hedström (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Researcher presentations
- Preciptation and the importance of complementary measurement techniques: From low to high-throughput precipitation studies. Tao Zhou (KTH)
- X-ray sources and their properties relevant for WAXS measurements. Rebecka Kärras (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) and William Twengstrom (Excillum)
- High-Throughput ex-situ measurements of phases, chemistry, defects, and stresses: first results and outlook. Gabriel Spartacus (Swerim)
Lunch