Speakers & Program

We are excited to host a panel of professionals known for their expertise within the Raman community.
Each of the individuals listed below will give a talk at this year's Raman Imaging Symposium. 

Sebastian
Schlücker

University of
Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Nico
Sommerdijk

Radboud University
Nijmegen, Netherlands

Thomas
Dieing

WITec GmbH, Ulm, Germany

Jenna Poonoosamy

Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany

Peter
Mojzes

Charles University
Prague, Czech Republic

Andrew
Steele

Carnegie Institution of Washington
Washington DC, USA

Martin
Lee

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany

Amber
Watson

University of Southampton, UK

Nishant
Garg

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Ute
Neugebauer

Leibniz-Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany

Mario
Bähr

CiS Forschungsinstitut für Mikrosensorik GmbH, Erfurt, Germany

Eva
Brauchle

Boehringer Ingelheim, Germany

Programm

Monday, September 23, 2024

14:00 - 14:30


Registration

14:30 - 14:45


Welcome 

14:45 - 15:45

Sebastian Schlücker
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

The principles of Raman spectroscopy and its application in microscopy

15:45 – 16:00

Coffee

16:00 – 16:45

Thomas Dieing
Oxford Instruments WITec, Ulm, Germany

3D confocal Raman imaging: instrumentation,
performance and correlative techniques

16:45 – 17:30

Nico Sommerdijk
Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Correlating Raman microscopy with advanced electron microscopy
for the investigation of bone biomineralization

17:30 – 19:15

Poster session & Get-together
with snacks and beverages

19:15 – 20:00

The “Physikanten Show”

Evening lecture: Professor's Highlights -
The witty and intelligent show with big spectacular experiments

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

08:45 – 09:00

Coffee

Session I – New Frontiers in Geochemistry Research

09:00 – 09:30

Nishant Garg
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign

Raman imaging of construction materials:
from traditional rocks to modern cements

09:30 – 10:00

Jenna Poonoosamy
Forschungszentrum Jülich,
Germany

A lab-on-a-chip concept for rationalizing hydro-geochemical processes
in energy subsurface applications

10:00 – 10:30

Andrew Steele
Carnegie Institution of
Washington

Raman spectroscopy of macro-molecular carbon on Earth and Mars:
a review

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee

Session II – Advanced Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical Research

11:00 – 11:30

Peter Mojzes
Charles University
Prague, Czech Republic

Raman microscopy of intracellular inclusions: 
how Raman microscopy incited paradigm change
of biocrystallization in unicellular eukaryotes

11:30 – 12:00

Eva Brauchle
Development NCE, Boehringer Ingelheim

Application of Raman microscopy for the investigation of
drug-induced pathological alterations in tissues

12:00 – 12:30

Ute Neugebauer
Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Technologie

Raman imaging as a powerful tool to visualize infections:
from intracellular bacteria to immune cell phenotypes

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch & Poster session (continued)

Session III – Exploring Novel Materials

13:30 – 14:00

Amber Watson
University of Southampton, UK

RISE correlative microscopy for
battery materials research

14:00 – 14:30

Martin Lee
Universität München LMU, Munich, Germany

Extracting the band structures of graphene using
quantum twisting microscopy

14:30 – 15:00

Mario Bähr
CiS Forschungsinstitut für Mikrosensorik GmbH, Germany

Imaging doping regions in Silicon-based MEMS structures using Raman-microscopy

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee

Session IV – Contributed Presentations

15:30 – 15:50

Ashish Tripathi
DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center, USA

Raman microscopy analysis of energetic particle
carrying capacity over time on a person’s finger

15:50 – 16:10

Kamil Awsiuk
Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

Imaging of epigenetic modifications in pancreatic
cancer subtypes using Raman microscopy

16:10 – 16:30

Raquel Pinto
University of Porto, Portugal

Raman spectroscopy in diatoms: species
characterisation and environmental diagnosis

16:30 – 16:50

Stephen Holroyd
Fonterra Research and Development Centre,
Palmerston North, New Zealand

Understanding mozzarella cheese microstructure
with Raman confocal imaging

16:50 – 17:10

Markus Boese
Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
Germany

ZEN core software for correlative Raman and
EDX spectroscopy

Starting 19:00

Conference dinner &
Poster Award ceremony

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

09:00 – 09:15

Welcome

09:15 – 10:00

Equipment demonstration

Confocal Raman imaging microscopy:
The alpha300 Microscope Series

10:00 – 10:15

Coffee

10:15 – 11:00

Software demonstration

WITec Software Suite

11:00 – 11:30

WITec house tour

Guided tour through WITec headquarters

11:30 – 13:00

Lunch

13:00 – 16:00

Equipment demonstrations
Choose which Demo stations to visit,
and in what order - Limited seating;
first arrived, first admitted

25 minutes per station:

  • Open forum with alpha300 R for individual Q&A
  • TrueSurface - Topographic Raman imaging
  • alpha300 apyron and TrueOrigin -
    Measurement automation and correlation
  • alpha300 Ri - Inverted Raman and fluorescence microscopy
  • alphaCART - Mobile Raman microspectroscopy
  • RISE - Correlative Raman-SEM

16:00 

Wrap-up & Coffee