Program

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Tuesday, April 21st, 2026

8:45 – 9:00 Welcome and Opening
9:00 – 10:00 Hans-Peter Steinrück

Tailoring the mobility and reactivity of porphyrins on metal surfaces

10:00 – 11:00 Tulio C. R. Rocha 

Probing functional interfaces with soft X-ray spectroscopy

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00 Maximilian Ünzelmann

Topological Dirac Quasiparticles Tailored by Surface-Moiré Engineering

12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:30 Alisson Ceccatto

Surface Science Approaches to Single-Atom Catalysts and Molecular Reactivity

14:30 – 14:50 Timo Talwar

Water co-adsorption in ultrathin films of ionic liquids on Pt(111)

14:50 – 15:10 Giordano F. C. Bispo

Mapping defect energy levels in Ce-doped KMgF3 via  synchrotron-based X-ray spectroscopy

15:10 – 15:30 Jonas Hauner

On-Surface Synthesis of a Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic  Framework by Cobalt Oxide Nanoisland Dissolution

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:30 Bruna F. Baggio

Two Dimensional Decoupling Layers for Molecular  Spectroscopy: TCNQ on MoS₂ Probed by LT-STM

16:30 – 16:50 Cedric Schmitt

Probing the Quantum Spin Hall State in Atomic Monolayers via NanoARPES

16:50 – 17:10 Pedro Rezende-Gonçalves

Metallic layered materials with magnetic frustration: An  ARPES view of SmAuAl4Ge2 and TbAuAl4Ge2

11:10 – 17:30 Christian L. Ritterhoff

Foundation Models and Transfer Learning as Innovative New Routes for Atomistic Simulations of Low-Dimensional Carbon Materials

17:30 – 17:40 Changing to CPV
17:40 – 19:30 Poster Session & Networking
P1 Nicolás M. S. de Siqueira

Probing the Electronic Density of States of Electrochemically Reduced Graphene Oxide via Quantum Rate Spectroscopy

P2 Arthur P. Machado

Terminal group effects on SAMs packing and perovskite  interfacial energetics

P3 Eidsa Brenda da Costa

Thermally Driven Evolution of Porphyrin-Based Assemblies on Cu(111)

P4 Gabriel X. Pereira

Intrinsic Instabilities and Mechanical Anisotropy in Halide Perovskite Monolayers

P5 Philip Maier

In silico investigation of magnetic water cleaning particles

P6 Saskia Prusch

Atomistic Insights into Mercuric Ion Capture: Development of a Force Field and Application in Molecular Dynamics Simulations

P7 Sajid Sajid

Greener Humidity-Assisted Fabrication of High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells

P8 N. Sidorenko

Area-selective SAM templating on CoO nanoislands/Au(111)

P9 Vanessa Carreño-Diaz

Competing Intermolecular and Metal–Ligand Interactions in Surface-Assisted Synthesis of 2D Nanostructures

 

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026

9:00 – 10:00 Willi Auwärter

On-Surface Synthesis of Low-Dimensional Carbon Structures Including Heteroatoms

10:00 – 11:00 Abner de Siervo

Atomic-Scale Engineering of Complex Organic Nanomaterials  via On-Surface Synthesis

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00 Julio C. Cezar

Synchrotron-based advanced surfaces and interfaces characterization at SIRIUS

12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:20 Majid Shaker

Insights to self-metalation of tetraphenyl transdibenzoporphyrin on Cu(111)

14:20 – 14:40 Rafael R. Barreto

Engineering a 2D Fe array on Ag(100) via temperature-driven reorganization and metalation of pyridyl-porphyrins

14:40 – 15:00 Isabela C. Tonon

Competing Coordination Pathways in Pyridyl-based Assemblies on Au(111)

15:00 – 15:20 Afra Gezmis

Reversible structure formation in 4,4-bipyridine – Fe 2D metal organic frameworks on Au(111)

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Visit to Sirius
17:40 – 19:30 Free Time
19:30 – 22:00 Conference Dinner at Churrascaria Estância Grill

 

 

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026

9:00 – 9:30 Luiz G. Pimenta Martins

High-pressure synthesis of 2D diamond

9:30 – 9:50 Bárbara L. T. Rosa

Tailoring the Quantum Optical Properties of Localized  States in van der Waals Heterostructures

9:50 – 10:10 Everton Pereira-Andrade

Multiple Quasiparticle Interactions in Molecularly Functionalized h-BN Polaritonic Systems

10:10 – 10:30 Douglas S. Ribeiro

Implementation of Ultra-High Vacuum Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS) for the Characterization of Optically Active Materials

10:30 – 11:00 Rogério Magalhães Paniago

Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy as a tool for the study of  physical phenomena at surfaces

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 19:30 Outing to São Paulo

 

 

Friday, April 24th, 2026

9:00 – 10:00 Carlos F.O. Graeff

Efficient and stable perovskite solar cells: new materials and modeling

10:00 – 10:20 Hameed Ullah

Mo₃C₂Tx MXene-Modified SnO₂ Electron Transport Layer for Enhanced Efficiency and Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells

10:20 – 10:40 Raphaela de Oliveira

Clinochlore as natural nanocavity for water confinement

10:40 – 11:00 Marco Dittmar

Growth and spectroscopy of altermagnetic MnTe

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00 Saimon F. C. Da Silva

Growth of Single-Photon Sources and Entangled Photon Pairs by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:30 Julien Steffen

Increasing the Scope of Computational Nanochemistry by Combining Density-Functional Theory with Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials

14:30 – 14:50 Neeta Bisht

DFT-Guided Self-Assembly of 2D Pyridyl-Linked Metal–Organic Frameworks on Au(111)

14:50 – 15:10 Edgar F. P. Nieto

Quantum Rate Spectroscopy: In-situ Nanoscale Electronic Structure Probing via Isoscopic Physics

15:10 – 15:30 Maria Vitória C. Issler

Engineering of Metal-Perovskite interfaces for charge transport optimization in inorganic halide perovskites

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 Lab visits of local groups and networking
17:30 – 17:40 Closing Session