Evaluation of Photon Strength Functions III - Summary Report of the Consultants Meeting, 12-14 November 2025, Vienna, Austria

The third Consultants' Meeting, also hybrid, took place from 12 to 14 November 2025.The following experts attended the meeting: S. Goriely (Belgium), O. Gorbachenko (Ukraine), V. Ingeberg (Norway), S. Jongile (S.Africa), M. Krticka (Czech Rep.), V. Plujko (Ukraine), P. von Neumann-Cosel (Germany), and T. Laplace, K. Malatji, M. Wiedeking (USA), including IAEA staff.A. Koning, NDS Head, opened the meeting, and P. Dimitriou, the scientific secretary of the meeting, gave a short introduction and presented the goals.Summaries of the presentations are given in Section 2, a summary of the discussions is provided in Section 3, and the conclusions are presented in Section 4. A list of actions is given in the Appendix, and the agenda and participants list in Annex 1 and 2, respectively.Participants' presentations can be found on the meeting website: https://conferences.iaea.