ECM-36

It is our pleasure to welcome you to the 36th edition of the European Crystallographic Meeting - ECM-36 which will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, August 23-28, 2027.

ECM is a well-established conference series of the European Crystallographic Association. Modern crystallography is an interdisciplinary subject covering structural biology, pharmacy, and chemistry to physics, and materials science. It can also be called structural science. It includes the study of protein structures and also crystals structures and microstructures of minerals, new functional materials, nanoparticles, bulk materials, and thin films. It is also interested in the relationship between the structure and function of materials. Important related topics are development of instrumental techniques for structural characterization of materials including large facilities XFELs, synchrotrons and neutron sources, but also continuous improvement of laboratory equipments, development of optics, better and faster detectors. The core methods of crystallography are X-ray and neutron scattering. However, mainly in the last decade, it includes electron diffraction and microscopy, NMR and different spectroscopies. This development also allows investigation of structural changes under extreme conditions such as high and low temperatures, high pressures, time-resolved studies, different in-situ experiments in external fields (magnetic, electric) and chemical reactions.