Discover the Lighthouse Visitor Centre

Discover the Lighthouse Visitor Centre

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Xcool Lab open for schools – book now!

Take a virtual tour of the European XFEL

Take a virtual tour of the European XFEL

A research facility of superlatives in the Hamburg area

A research facility of superlatives in the Hamburg area

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Facts and figures about the facility

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More about the beamlines

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More about the superconducting linear accelerator

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More about the scientific instruments

The 3.4 km long European XFEL generates extremely intense X-ray flashes used by researchers from all over the world to map atomic details of viruses, film chemical reactions, and study processes in the interior of planets. Discover European XFEL at our Lighthouse

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01 March 2021 to 29 December 2025
online event

FELs of Europe Tutorials

6 - 07 October 2025
European XFEL Lighthouse, Auditorium

Workshop on Theory of X-Ray Spectroscopies

08 October 2025, 08:30
European XFEL, Lighthouse Visitor Centre

2nd Hamburg Structural Biology Meeting

09 October 2025, 13:00
European XFEL , Auditorium, Lighthouse

Time-resolved serial crystallography as a tool for mechanistic enzymology

09 October 2025, 16:00
European XFEL, XHQ / E1.173

First-principles calculations of the fragility and the thermodynamic properties ...

09 October 2025, 16:30
European XFEL, Treffpunkt Lighthouse

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Crystals 15 (8), 734 (2025-08-19)

Coarse-Graining and Classifying Massive High-Throughput XFEL Datasets of Crystallization in Supercooled Water

E.S.H. Chia, T.B. Berberich, E. Sobolev, J.C.P. Koliyadu, P. Adams, T. André, F.D. Antonia, S. Cardoch, E. De Santis, A. Formosa, B. Hammarström, M.P. Hassett, S. Kim, M. Kloos, R. Letrun, J. Malka, D. Melo, S. Paporakis, T. Sato, P. Schmidt, O. Turkot, M. Vakili, J. Valerio, T.V. Yenupuri, T. You, R. de Wijn, G.-S. Park, B. Abbey, C. Darmanin, S. Bajt, H.N. Chapman, J. Bielecki, F.R.N.C. Maia, N. Timneanu, C. Caleman, A.V. Martin, R.P. Kurta, J.A. Sellberg, N.-t.D. Loh
Nat Commun 16 (1), 7966 (2025-08-26)

Ultrafast decoupling of polarization and strain in ferroelectric BaTiO3

L.P. Hoang, D. Pesquera, G.N. Hinsley, R. Carley, L. Mercadier, M. Teichmann, E.M. Unterleutner, D. Knez, M. Dienstleder, S. Ganguly, T.C. Asmara, G. Merzoni, S. Parchenko, J. Schlappa, Z. Yin, J.M. Caicedo Roque, J. Santiso, I. Spasojevic, C. Carinan, T.-L. Lee, K. Rossnagel, J. Zegenhagen, G. Catalan, I.A. Vartanyants, A. Scherz, G. Mercurio
JACS 147 (34), 30694–30707 (2025-08-13)

Unraveling the Relaxation Dynamics of Uracil: Insights from Time-Resolved X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

D. Faccialà, M. Bonanomi, B.N.C. Tenorio, L. Avaldi, P. Bolognesi, C. Callegari, M. Coreno, S. Coriani, P. Decleva, M. Devetta, N. Došlić, A. De Fanis, M. Di Fraia, F. Lever, T. Mazza, M. Meyer, T. Mullins, Y. Ovcharenko, N. Pal, M.N. Piancastelli, R. Richter, D.E. Rivas, M. Sapunar, B. Senfftleben, S. Usenko, C. Vozzi, M. Gühr, K.C. Prince, O. Plekan
Appl. Surf. Sci. 713, 164304 (2025-12)

Nonequilibrium electron-phonon and electron-ion couplings in warm dense copper

G. Kang, G. Lee, S. Azadi, R. Carley, L. Le Guyader, L.P. Hoang, H.B. Kim, M. Kim, C. Lee, L. Mercadier, G. Mercurio, S. Parchenko, A. Seong, D. Shin, M. Teichmann, B.E. Van Kuiken, Z. Yin, S.M. Vinko, A. Scherz, B.I. Cho

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