Do you sometimes wish to have a big sister? A sister who fought the battles with the parents? An intimate, non-snitching friend? BESSY – The big sister It is not so much different for a light source than it is for you! Some lightsources have gathered experience over the years…

I’m working at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf e.V. at the linear electron accelerator ELBE. In November 2018, thanks to the sponsorship of the staff exchange program of the EU project CALIPSOplus, I had the opportunity to travel to the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) located in Switzerland in order to gain hands-on…

Welcome to the HZDR Summer Student Program 2019. The HZDR invites students from all over the world to join our research teams for the period between July and September 2019. Summer students can choose to work and research at any one of the HZDR’s eight individual institutes.  Research at the…

The 2019 FELBE/TELBE User Workshop will take place May 13th-15th, 2019 at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany. The purpose of the workshop is a fruitful exchange between users, beamline scientists, and facility management. In particular, the workshop aims for: Presentation of results of recent scientific highlight experiments. Informing the user community of…

The 11th European NESY Winterschool & Symposium on Neutron and Synchrotron Radiation will take place March, 4th-8th 2019 in Altausee (Austria). This bi-annual event has meanwhile a strong tradition for the Austrian Neutron & Synchrotron User community as a platform to exchange their activities and to educate young academics. This…

Motivation NCD-SWEET beamline (ALBA synchrotron light source, Spain) is devoted to Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS & WAXS) experiments. After the NCD-SWEET major upgrade in 2017, the beamline capabilities enabled performing Grazing Incidence (GI) experiments, as demanded by the user community interested in investigating nanostructures at surfaces and…

SYNERGI 2019: SYchrotron and NEutron Research Go Industrial – advanced chemistry industries YNERGI 2019 is a one-day event organised by the ILL – Europe’s leading neutron source – in collaboration with the ESRF – Europe’s leading synchrotron light source – to be held on April 1st, 2019 in Lyon (France).…

The CORBEL* Open Call invites researchers from academia and industry to apply to access a wide range of high-end technologies and services from more than 20 facilities from 10 different research infrastructures across Europe. These include state-of-the-art offers from the fields of advanced imaging, biobanking, clinical and translational research, curated…

Helmholtz to Invest 3.5 Million Euros in the Multinational SESAME Project in Jordan Berlin, October 25, 2018 – The largest German research organization is further expanding its scientific cooperation in the Middle East. The Helmholtz Association announced today that it is providing funding of 3.5 million euros for the SESAME…

The Twinning programme was tailored aiming at widening the access of European researchers to the synchrotrons and FELs partners in the CALIPSOplus consortium. In the programme, potential users without any previous light source experience are partnered with host groups that share their know-how and expertise in applying the available experimental…