Discover the Lighthouse Visitor Centre

Discover the Lighthouse Visitor Centre

Xcool Lab open for schools – book now!

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

Facts and figures about the facility

Facts and figures about the facility

More about the beamlines

More about the beamlines

More about the superconducting linear accelerator

More about the superconducting linear accelerator

More about the scientific instruments

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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Announcements

Young Scientist Award: Inviting for nominations

European XFEL invites nominations for the European XFEL Young Scientist Award at the 2026 Users' Meeting / Deadline: 3 December 2025

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Information about user access

Details for scientific users of the facility.

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Announcements and Events

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01 March 2021 to 29 December 2025
online event

FELs of Europe Tutorials

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

Spin polarization and migration

23 October 2025, 18:00
Lighthouse, European XFEL, Auditorium

Abendvortrag: Werkzeug Licht

08 November 2025, 13:00
Lighthouse

Science Samstag: Vogelwelt auf dem Campus

16 November 2025, 17:00
Lighthouse

Kammermusik mit Ausstellungsbesuch

18 November 2025, 14:00

DESY-STFC-XFEL 10th collaboration meeting (tentative)

User Publications

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Adv. Electron. Mater. Early View, e00429 (2025-09-19)

Ultrafast Dynamics of Electronic and Structural Modifications Induced by Photoexcitation in Cerium Oxide

S. Pelatti, E. Spurio, D. Catone, P. O'Keeffe, S. Turchini, G. Ammirati, F. Paleari, D. Varsano, S. Benedetti, A. di Bona, S. D'Addato, Y. Jiang, P. Zalden, Y. Uemura, H. Wang, D. Vinci, X. Huang, F. Alves Lima, M. Biednov, D. Khakhulin, C.J. Milne, F. Boscherini, P. Luches
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

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