Congress Program
ICS 2026 | 21-22 May 2026 | Istanbul Kültür University
Venue
Akıngüç Auditorium and Art Center
Istanbul Kültür University – Ataköy Campus
08:30 - 09:30
Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:30 - 10:00
Opening Ceremony
Prof. Gulce Ogruc Ildiz, Vice Rector of Istanbul Kültür University, Congress Chair
Prof. Dr. Fadime Üney Yüksektepe, Rector of Istanbul Kültür University
Dr. Bahar Akıngüç Günver, Head of Board of Trusties of Istanbul Kültür University
10:00 - 10:45
IKU-SPECTRA ICS 2026 Plenary Lecture 1
Malgorzata Baranska (Jagiellonian University Kraków, Poland)
<To be announced>
10:45 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45
IKU-SPECTRA ICS 2026 Plenary Lecture 2
Wei-Tao Yang (Duke University, Duke University, United States)
Novel functional approximations and DFT for excited states
11:45 - 12:00
IKU-SPECTRA ICS 2026 Keynote Lecture 1
Gastón García López (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain)
Ion beam techniques at CMAM: from advanced materials to radiobiology
12:00 - 12:15
Oral Communications - OC1
Lorenzo Pistorino (Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy)
Assessment of Radon exhalation from Viterbo Tuff stone treated with various consolidating and
hydrophobic products
12:15 - 12:30
Oral Communications - OC2
Sevim Akyüz (Istanbul Kültür University, Türkiye)
Vibrational spectral and thermal analysis of plaster and mortars from xerigordos castle (Cobankale) - Yalova, Turkey
12:30 - 12:45
Oral Communications - OC3
Justyna Krupa (University of Wrocław, Poland)
Infrared spectroscopic investigation of cryogenic photochemistry by matrix-isolation
12:45 - 13:00
Oral Communications - OC4
Rita Roque (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Shedding (microwave) light on sunscreens: the conformational space of methyl ferulate
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
IKU-SPECTRA ICS 2026 Plenary Lecture 3
Peter Atkins (Oxford University, United Kingdom)
The evolution of physical chemistry
14:45 - 15:00
IKU-SPECTRA ICS 2026 Keynote Lecture 2
José António Paixão (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Quantum crystallography – a case study on triphenylguanidine compounds
14:45 - 15:00
IKU-SPECTRA ICS 2026 Keynote Lecture 3
Vlada Pashynska (B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine)
Drug delivery nanosystems of MoS2 with doxorubicin: mass spectrometry and quantum-chemical study
15:00 - 15:15
Oral Communications - OC5
Nikola Biliškov (Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia)
Exploring the reaction zone of solid-state contact reactions - walking along phase diagrams
15:00 - 15:15
Oral Communications - OC7
Ilya Shenderovich (Regensburg University, Germany)
Improving theoretical modeling of intermolecular interactions through NMR
15:15 - 15:30
Oral Communications - OC6
Ainur Syeitkhajy (Istanbul Kültür University, Türkiye)
Picolinamide-saccharin cocrystal: synthesis, structure, vibrational spectra and thermal behavior
15:15 - 15:30
Oral Communications - OC8
Abeer Aleskndrany (Ege University, Türkiye)
Molecular interactions of L-T3 and L-T4 with sphingomyelin model membranes: a comparative FTIR and DSC study
15:30 - 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:00
IKU-SPECTRA ICS 2026 Keynote Lecture 4
María Rosa López Ramírez (University of Málaga, Spain)
Raman spectroscopic assessment of biosignature stability in lichens exposed to space and mars-like conditions
15:45 - 16:00
IKU-SPECTRA ICS 2026 Keynote Lecture 5
Şefik Süzer (Bilkent University, Türkiye)
Localized and AC-modulated and -XPS provides a new observation window for investigating dynamics of electrode/ionic liquid interfaces
16:00 - 16:15
Oral Communications - OC9
Betül Çalışkan (Ankara University, Türkiye and Pamukkale University, Türkiye)
EPR analysis of gamma irradiated β-alanine single crystal
16:00 - 16:15
Oral Communications - OC13
Giuseppe Paladini (Università degli Studi di Messina, Italy)
Baicalin-loaded polymeric nanocarriers for the management of recurrent biofilm-associated infections: a physico-chemical characterization through µ-Raman, FTIR-ATR and 2D correlation techniques
16:15 - 16:30
Oral Communications - OC10
Nuno M. Campos (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Decoding synthon architectures using hyperfine-resolved rotational spectroscopy
16:15 - 16:30
Oral Communications - OC14
Maxim Pshenichnikov (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Light as a scalpel for excitons in supramolecular nanotubes
16:30 - 16:45
Oral Communications - OC11
Günnur Güler (Izmir Institute of Technology, Türkiye)
Spectroscopic signatures of RNA methylation: a rapid and cost-effective strategy
16:30 - 16:45
Oral Communications - OC15
Ange A. Maurice (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
UV-Visible spectroscopy for Vanadium in Redox Flow battery: A low-cost multi-wavelength sensor
16:45 - 17:00
Oral Communications - OC12
Ayça Doğan (Istanbul Aydin University, Türkiye and Altinbas University, Türkiye)
Vibrational fingerprinting of immunosuppressive and immunomodulatory therapy in myasthenia gravis: a quantitative ATR-FTIR analysis
16:45 - 17:00
Oral Communications - OC16
Dan-Gheorghe Dimitriu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania)
Solvatochromic analysis of 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone (lawsone) in binary and ternary solutions
17:00 - 18:00
Poster Session
19:00 - 21:00