EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) hosted a HAXPES workshop on “Fundamentals, Instrumentations and Applications” between May 7th -9th 2025 at their Duebendorf campus on the outskirts of Zurich. The workshop was organised by Dr Claudia Cancellieri and Dr Lars Jeurgens and brought together the two all too often separate communities of physics-driven spectroscopy and surface analysis. It was a great opportunity to catch-up with old friends and make new connections. Anna had the pleasure of delivering a keynote on our ongoing work on the electronic structure of metal hydrides.

EMPA is also the home of a laboratory-based XPS/HAXPES system from PHI QUANTES (with Al and Cr Kα X-ray sources), which is combined with several in-situ capabilities.