European XFEL User Organization Executive Committee Poster Prize for Hélène Ginestet
Jan. 2026. Hélène Ginestet was awarded a prize for her poster at the annual European XFEL Users’ Meeting
Hélène Ginestet (Université de Lille, CNRS – UMET - Unite Materiaux Et Transformations) was presented her European XFEL UOEC PhD Poster Prize by Thomas Feurer and Marc Simon. Photo: European XFEL/Axel Heimken.
The 3.4 km long European XFEL is the world's largest X-ray laser. It can generate up to 27 000 X-ray flashes of less than 100 femtoseconds per second, with a peak brilliance a billion times higher than that of the best conventional X-ray sources. In HotCores, we use the European XFEL to probe the physical properties of iron and iron alloys at Earth and planetary cores conditions.
The 2026 EuXFEL User Meeting is held 26-30 January 2026 in DESY (Hamburg) and the European XFEL (Schenefeld) in Germany. The European XFEL User Organization Executive Committee (UOEC) awards Poster Prizes to posters presented at the Users’ Meeting about exciting research performed with radiation from European XFEL and this year the winner is .... Hélène Ginestet, who received the prize for her poster with the title „Iron at extreme conditions at the EuXFEL: static and dynamic experiments“.
Congratulations!
To know more about Hélène's work, take a look at her recent paper: H. Ginestet, R. J. Husband, N. Jaisle, E. Edmund, Z. Konôpková, C. Strohm, M. S. Anae, D. Antonangeli, K. Appel, O. B. Ball, M. Baron, S. Boccato, K. Buakor, J. Chantel, H. Cynn, A. P. Dwivedi, H. Graafsma, E. Koemets, T. Laurus, H. Marquardt, B. Massani, J. D. McHardy, M. I. McMahon, V. Prakapenka, J. Sztuk-Dambietz, M. Tang, T. Xie, Z. Younes, U. Zastrau, A. F. Goncharov, C. Prescher, A. Dewaele, R. S. McWilliams, G. Morard & S. Merkel, Metrology for femtosecond pulsed x-ray heating in diamond anvil cell experiments at the European XFEL: Revisiting the iron phase diagram up to 150 GPa, Journal of Applied Physics, 139, 045901 (2026) [doi: 10.1063/5.0303953]