Lasers4EU

Lasers4EU Online Training on Femtosecond & Attosecond Spectroscopy, 9-11 June 2026
2026-06-09 - 2026-06-11 | Online
About the workshop
This online training workshop, organised as part of the Lasers4EU project, aims to equip early-stage researchers and PhD students with advanced experimental and data analysis skills in femtosecond and attosecond spectroscopy. Participants will be introduced to state-of-the-art techniques available at European laser research infrastructures and gain practical experience through guided data analysis sessions.A main focus is placed on data analysis, often the critical bottleneck that limits the scientific value of high-quality experimental data. By strengthening these skills, the training enables participants to fully exploit world-class laser facilities offered through the Lasers4EU Transnational Access (TNA) scheme.The programme combines live lectures, virtual laboratory tours and guided hands-on data analysis sessions. Lectures on Day 1 are open to a broader audience to maximize outreach; interactive sessions on Days 2–3 are limited to 20 participants.
Who should apply
The workshop is primarily aimed at early-career researchers and PhD students working in physics, chemistry, and related fields who are interested in ultrafast laser-based spectroscopies and are potential future users of the Lasers4EU Transnational Access scheme.
We particularly encourage applications from:– Researchers from institutions with limited local access to advanced laser infrastructures– PhD students seeking to prepare a competitive Lasers4EU TA proposal– Scientists who have recently acquired or plan to acquire data at ultrafast laser facilities and wish to strengthen their data analysis skills– Researchers from across Europe and beyond interested in attosecond physics, XUV spectroscopy, or transient absorption spectroscopy

What will you learn

Programme overview

How to participate
Applicants must submit:

A Curriculum Vitae, via e-mail to alina.khodko@mbi-berlin.de
A statement of purpose, outlining the motivation for attending the training, in the registration form below.

Participation in the Day 1 lecture sessions is open to all interested researchers. Interactive sessions on Days 2–3, including virtual laboratory tours and guided data analysis, are limited to 20 participants to ensure effective individual support.
The workshop is delivered fully online. No travel costs are required for participants.
Deadline for application: 1 June 2026Successful applicants will be notified during the week of June 6, 2026 and will receive access to data analysis software and datasets in advance of the workshop.

Lasers4EU Training | Hands-on Course on MINDLAB: Manipulating and Investigating Neural Dynamics for Learning and Ageing in the Brain, 13-17 July 2026
2026-07-13 - 2026-07-17 | Castelldefels, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain
The core faculty of the ICFO-MINDLAB, a think tank working jointly towards a transdisciplinary understanding of the brain, offers a school to introduce cutting edge technologies to study neuroscience at the molecular, cellular and systems level to students in a combination of lectures and hands-on experience leading to group projects.
What is MINDLAB?
MINDLAB stands for “Manipulating and Investigating Neural Dynamics for Learning and Ageing in the Brain” and is an interdisciplinary creative playground rooted squarely in academic rigor, comprising of research groups from ICFO and beyond. We focus on advancing fundamental knowledge on how the mind emerges from the behavior of individual molecules, neurons and brain networks but also creating and commercializing transformational future technologies with outstanding potential to impact our society for good.
Hence, this course will expose participants to the state-of-the-art of photonics-based technologies tailored to monitor a hierarchy of scales in the study of the brain: i.e. from single molecules up to the whole organism.
The MINDLAB faculty includes world leading experts in their fields. The expertise of the core faculty is complemented by a diverse set of affiliated adjunct faculty from various research centres in Barcelona but also through clinical and corporate partners.
This year’s school coincide with the arrival of ICFO’s Summer Fellows, a group of highly motivated master-level or engineering students in their final years of study, who join ICFO research groups for three-month internships (July-September)
Hands-on sessions
Participants will engage in lab sessions focused on the latest photonics technologies. Each lab session will provide participants with an opportunity to work directly with advanced equipment and gain valuable practical skills.
The sessions will take place in the following labs:

Super resolution Light microscopy and Nanoscopy
Neurophotonics and Mechanical Systems Biology
Medical Optics
Photon Harvesting in Plants and Biomolecules
Single Molecules Biophotonics

More information

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