10.06.2025. We are pleased to welcome Dr. Bartosz Gurzeda (Experienced Researcher) and Dr. Liwei Cheng (Postdoctoral Fellow), both funded by the Humboldt Foundation!
18.02.2025. Join us at JdA2025 in Annecy!
30.06.2024. Grant Results! Congratulations! MaLaR project has been funded by European Commission HORIZON-EURATOM-2023-NRT-01-09 , Budget: 2.3 million € / 3 years (2025 – 2028)
21.05.2024. Congratulations to Clara for being selected as one of the 10 outstanding graduate students worldwide in the field of actinide science by Seaborg Institute Graduate Research Programm. Clara goes to Los Alamos National Laboratory for a few months!
18.04.2023. Congratulations to Eleanor Lawerence Bright for receiving “The excellent oral presentation award for young scientists” and a medal at the JdA53 conference in Lille (France)!
26.01.2024. Join us in commemorating Prof. Frank de Groot’s 60th birthday through a special symposium “Exploring the Depths of X-ray Spectroscopy – Past, Present and Future” The meeting will be hybrid, with both in-person and online options. Date: Friday, February 16, 2024,
Location: Boothzaal M0.3, University Library Utrecht Science Park, Heidelberglaan 3, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands
30.10.2023 Rossendorf Beamline is looking for the BLOM! Please apply before November 20/11/2023.
03.06.2023 Kristina gives a plenary talk at the Actinides 2023 International Conference in Golden Colorado (USA).
25.05.2023 Kristina gives a seminar at Leibniz University Hannover. Look forward to a fruitful collaboration with Sandra Reinhard and Prof. Clemens Walther!
26.04.2023 Kristina gives an invited talk at CONEXS (The Collaborative Network for X-ray Spectroscopy) Conference in Oxford (UK)
21.04.2023. Sincere Congratulations to Clara for receiving “The excellent oral presentation award for young scientists” and a medal at the JdA52 conference in Dresden (Germany)!
18.04.2023 Meet Lucia and Clara at JDA52 – “52nd Journées des Actinides (JdA) and 14th School on the Physics and Chemistry of the Actinides (SPCA)” in Dresden (Germany)! Lucia’s talk, entities “X-ray Spectroscopy to shed light on actinides: from experiments to calculations” is on Tuesday at SPCA and Clara will talk about “Fundamentals of the U halides” on Thursday at JDA-52.
16.03.2023 Kristina is in Chester (UK) for the IUCr Journals Management Board Meeting.
26.02.2023 Lucia gives an invited talk in Santa Fe (USA) at the 2nd International Workshop on Theory Frontiers in Actinide Science: Chemistry & Materials
22.12.2022 The grant results are out! Kristina gets full Professorship and 2.9 mio EUR funding for 5 years from Helmholtz Association (1.0 mio EUR) and HZDR, Dresden (1.9 mio EUR), under the program “Funding of first-time professorial appointments of excellent women scientists (W2/W3) – Call 2022”.
01.12.2022 Kristina gives a Keynote lecture at the Synchroton Light Finland 2022 event in Helsinki at 2pm.
24.10.2022 Great start of the Nuclear Materials 2022 Conference in Ghent, Belgium. Kristina will give a talk on 27.10.2022 at 10am.
21.10.2022 ATAS-AnXAS 2022– Joint Workshop, 17-21 October 2022, ESRF, Grenoble, France took place. Thank you to everyone who attended!
September 2022 – New Collection, named Long-term, sustainable solutions to radioactive waste management is open for submissions in Scientific Reports magazine, edited by Francis Claret, Nicolas Clavier, Kristina Kvashnina, Tatiana G Levitskaia, Haruko Wainwright, Tiankai Yao. Submission deadline: 31st of January, 2023
26.09.2022 – Kristina will give a plenary talk at the Pu Futures -The Science 2022 conference in Avignon, France.
14.09.2022 – Clara Silva from the University of Turin (Italy) joins the TOP group for the 4 months training period at ROBL. Clara, Welcome!
08.09.2022 – Meet Lucia, Elena and Kristina at the Actinides revisited 2022 Conference in Dresden on the 21-23 of October! We will talk about actinides’ electronic structure probed by X-ray spectroscopy and computational methods.
05.09.2022 – Manuel Vejar from the University of Notre Dame (USA) joins the TOP group for the 2 months training period at ROBL. Manuel, Welcome!
01.07.2022 – Florian Otte from XFEL (Hamburg) joins the TOP group as a postdoctoral fellow to work on the electronic structure of actinide materials by advanced X-ray spectroscopic methods. Florian, Welcome!
20.05.2022 – New cover is published: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/21967350/2022/9/18
28.04.2022 – The abstract submission and registration for the ATAS-AnXAS 2022 – Joint Workshop, 17-21 October 2022, ESRF, Grenoble, France is now open.
11.04.2022 – Lucia and Kristina gave talks at JdA51 Conference in Santa Margherita Ligure (Genova), Italy
15.01.2022 – New cover is published: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2021/CC/D1CC04851A
10.09.2021 – Congratulations to Dr. Evgeny Gerber on a successful thesis defense this afternoon! Well done!
04.09.2021 – Ryan Dempsey – a PhD student from Manchester University, UK – joins TOP group for the 1 month training period at ROBL. Ryan, Welcome!
01.07.2021 – Congratulations to Tatiana Poliakova who got a Best Student Poster Price at the Uranium Science Conference in Bristol, UK in the category ” Environmental Science and Forensics”
01.05.2021 – Elena Bazarkina joins the TOP group as a postdoctoral fellow. She will be responsible for all experiments with XES setup at ROBL.
27.03.2021 – Kristina has been included in the international database of excellent female researchers AcademiaNet by Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
08.02.2021 -Kristina is named Top 10 Russian strong women scientists by Forbes Russia.
22.11.2020 – UDM3 – Physics and Chemistry of Actinides seen by X-rays on 10th of February 2021 at the ESRF, Grenoble, France. The deadline for registration is 4th of February 2021.
01.11.2020 – Kristina becomes a main editor of the Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (IUCr).
28.08.2020 – The XAS/XES Spring School 2020 on Advanced Synchrotron Methods: X-ray Absorption and Emission spectroscopy at LMSU, Moscow was postponed to June 2-4, 2021.
24.08.2020 – Kristina becomes a member of the advisory group for PANAMA (Plasma Accelerators for Nuclear Applications and Materials Characterization) facility, at the University of Strathclyde, UK.
21.08.2020 – Kristina becomes a member of the Beamline Advisory Group for the XAFS beamlines at the SKIF project (4th Generation Synchrotron Light Source being constructed in Novosibirsk, Russia)
16.08.2020 – Kristina becomes a member of the Project Review Panel (PRP) at Petra III (Hamburg, Germany) for beamlines P01 “High Resolution Dynamics Beamline”& P09 “Inelastic, Magnetic and Resonant Scattering beamline”
01.07.2020 – Towards the ESRF Extremely Brilliant Source: The new ROBL X-ray beam was successfully monitored at the final end station.
30.01.2020 – The XAS/XES Spring School 2020 on Advanced Synchrotron Methods: X-ray Absorption and Emission spectroscopy at LMSU, Moscow was announced. Registration open until March 15th
17.12.2019 – TOP group got a trophy for the best paper in 2019 at IRE, HZDR (Dresden, Germany) – Kvashnina et al, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58, 17558-177562 (2019)
03.12.2019 – EBS workshop on X-ray Emission Spectroscopy at ESRF, Grenoble, France
21.11.2019 – Kristina was awarded 1.3M€ Mega-grant for a period 2019-2021 from the Ministry of Research and Higher Education of the Russian Federation to establish lab at the Chemistry Department of Moscow State University
21.10.2019 – Kristina gave a talk about pentavalent plutonium phase at Symposium on the Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management in Vienna, Austria
07.10.2019 – Anna is at Quanty workshop in Heidelberg, Germany
20.10.2019 – Congratulations to Evgeny, who got a best poster award at Migration 2019 conference in Kyoto, Japan
15.09.2019 – Evgeny is attending Migration 2019 conference in Kyoto, Japan
09.09.2019 – Meet Lucia and Evgeny at 21st Mendeleev congress in Saint Petersburg, Russia
26.08.2019 – Kristina and Ivan presented latest results on U minerals and PuO2 NPs at Goldschmidt2019 conference in Barcelona, Spain
10.06.2019 – Evgeny showed last results on PuO2 NPs at 7th RAD 2019 in Montenegro.
28.05.2019 – Kristina and Lucia gave talks about actinide oxide nanoparticles research at EMRS Spring Meeting 2019 in Nice, France.
15.04.2019 – Lucia will talk about “Modeling XANES of U⁵⁺ and U⁶⁺ in different local coordination geometries” at 49èmes Journées des Actinides (JdA-2019) in Erice, Italy.
14.03.2019 – We organized a workshop dedicated to the nuclear waste problems in USA, Germany and Russia at the Institute of Resource Ecology, HZDR. Invited speakers: Prof. Peter Burns (University of Notre Dame, USA), Prof. Vinzenz Brendler (HZDR, Germany), Prof. Stepan Kalmykov (Moscow state University, Russia)
06.11.2018 – Lucia and Kristina talk at ATAS Workshop in Nice, France.
11.09.2018 – Evgeny gives a talk at Pu Futures Conference in San Diego, USA.
12.08.2018 – Ivan had a poster presentation at Goldschmidt Conference in Boston, USA.
16.07.2018 – Lucia and Evgeny will present thire results at XAFS 2018 conference in Krakow, Poland.
08.06.2018 – Kristina talks about actinide and lanthanide chemistry at MINATEC Les Midis (300 participates), Grenoble, France
20.03.2018 – We will present new results on plutonium oxide nanoparticles at the upcoming 48 JDA 2018 conference in Portugal, 21-24th of March 2018.
24.03.2018 – Evgeny Gerber was awarded a medal for the “best young researcher’s oral presentation” at the 48 JDA in Portugal on 24th of March 2018. Evgeny presented the results of a new experiment performed at the ROBL in February this year.
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