9th EIROforum School on Instrumentation

from Monday, 1 June 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 5 June 2026 (17:15)
EMBL / ILL / ESRF - EPN Campus, Grenoble

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Jun 2026
2 Jun 2026
3 Jun 2026
4 Jun 2026
5 Jun 2026
AM
08:00 Registration  
09:00 Welcome to ESI 2026  
10:00 --- Coffee / Tea ---
10:30
System, Integration and Instrument Design (until 12:00)
10:30 A General Overview of Vacuum Technology and Instrumentation for Research Environments - Raul Villanueva (EuXFEL)  
11:00 Mechatronic for synchrotrons : from quasi-static systems to high dynamic positioning stages - Francois Villar (ESRF)  
11:30 Cryogenics & Vacuum Technology - Matteo Accardo (ESO)  
08:30
Control, Data acquisition and High Data volumes (until 10:00)
08:30 Software testing - Anna Klimovskaia (EuXFEL)  
09:00 TBC - Paolo Mutti (ILL)  
09:30 Beamline control, data acquisition and data management at the ESRF - Lucas Felix (ESRF)  
10:00 --- Coffee / Tea ---
10:30
Radiation Damage (until 12:00)
10:30 Introduction to radiation effects in electronics and detectors - Giulio Borghello (CERN)  
11:00 Electronics reliability in the nuclear fusion radiation environment of tokamaks - Martin Dentan (EUROfusion)  
11:30 The JUICE spacecraft and its instrumentation: overview and challenges - Fabrice Cipriani (ESA)  
08:30
Project Day (until 10:00)
10:00 --- Coffee / tea ---
10:30
Project Day (until 12:00)
08:30
Optics (until 10:30)
08:30 X-ray optics - Thomas Roth (ESRF)  
09:00 Optical Design Principles - Johannes Kolmeder (ESO)  
09:30 Combining Light and Sound for Deep Tissue Microscopy - Frederik Görlitz (EMBL)  
10:00 Neutron Optics - Pierre Courtois (ILL)  
10:30 --- Coffee / Tea ---
11:00
Machine Learning and Data Analysis (until 12:00)
11:00 Leveraging Machine Learning Techniques for Predictive Maintenance in Large-Scale Scientific Facilities - Amna Majid (EuXFEL)  
11:30 Data analysis of large and diverse experimental data at a photon science facility - Ivette Bermundez (EuXFEL)  
08:30
Detector Design (until 10:00)
08:30 Megahertz imaging with pixel detectors - Marco Ramilli (EuXFEL)  
09:00 Thermal neutron detectors, readout electronics and signal processing - Patrick Van Esch (ILL)  
09:30 Tracking and calorimetry for particle detectors - David Barney (CERN)  
10:00 --- Tea / Coffee ---
10:30
Detector Design (until 11:00)
10:30 Imaging Sensors For Space Applications - Thibault Prod'homme (ESA)  
11:00
TBD (until 12:00)
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
System, Integration and Instrument Design (until 15:00)
13:00 Improving vitrification of biological samples using liquid ethane jets - Gergely Papp (EMBL)  
13:30 Project Management and Systems Engineering for instrumentation - Lorenzo Pettazzi (ESO)  
14:00 Integration challenges in collider detectors for particle physics: the examples of the CMS experiment Tracker and High-Granularity Calorimeter for High-Luminosity LHC operation - Karol Rapacz (CERN)  
14:30 Design and verification basics for space instrumentation - Thibault Prod'homme (ESA)  
15:00 --- Coffee / Tea ---
15:30
ESRF/EMBL visits (until 18:30)
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Hands-on session 1 (until 15:00)
13:00 AI-assisted Coding - Steffen Hauf (EuXFEL)  
13:00 Impactful presentation - Dave Barney (CERN)  
13:00 Rapid prototyping - Karol Rapacz (CERN)  
15:00 --- Coffee / Tea ---
15:30 Flash oral presentations  
17:00 Poster session  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Project Day (until 15:30)
15:30 --- Coffee / tea ---
16:00 Special lecture #1  
17:00 Special lecture #2  
18:00 Reception  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Hands-on Session 2 (until 15:00)
13:00 AI-assisted Coding - Steffen Hauf (EuXFEL)  
13:00 Impactful presentation - David Barney (CERN)  
13:00 Rapid prototyping - Karol Rapacz (CERN)  
15:00 --- Coffee / Tea ---
15:30 Flash Oral presentations 2  
17:00 Poster session 2  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
13:00
Hands-on Session 3 (until 15:00)
13:00 AI-assisted Coding - Steffen Hauf (EuXFEL)  
13:00 Impactful presentation - David Barney (CERN)  
13:00 Rapid prototyping - Karol Rapacz (CERN)  
15:00 --- Tea / Coffee ---
15:30 Closing, and awards