Facility Description ALBA is a synchrotron light facility located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona (Spain). Managed by the Consortium for the Construction, Equipping and Exploitation of the Synchrotron Light Source (CELLS), it is funded in equal parts by the Spanish and the Catalonian Administration. ALBA currently has eight operational state-of-the-art beamlines,…

BESSY II @ HZB As a multi-disciplinary multi-user facility, the research portfolio at BESSY II includes physics (e.g., quantum physics in solids, superconductivity, magnetism, topological insulators, clusters, and disordered systems), chemistry (e.g., catalysis and artificial photosynthesis, real-time investigations of charge transfer), energy research (e.g., materials for energy conversion and storage,…

We are happy to announce the HZB Photon School 2020 that will take place from March 9th – 20th, 2020 in the Wilhelm-Conrad-Röntgen-Campus, Berlin-Adlershof. This school is primarily aimed at master students and early stage researchers in physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering, life or environmental sciences. Students will be introduced…

November 7th, 2019 the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and its partners, Inolytix and Novitom, will an attractive, industry-oriented and short Symposium about Micro- and Nanotomography with introductory speeches and applications from industry. The synchrotron-based x-ray computed tomography (XCT) is ideally suited to discover 3-dimensional structures below the micrometer range as…

CALIPSOplus funding supports access by SMEs. The SMEs can apply for through the wayforlight.eu portal. This pilot trans-national access scheme allows SMEs to access the best light source for their particular needs, irrespective of whether or not it is the closest light source. The latest call for proposals is open from September 3rd, 2019 to December 19st, 2019.

In CALIPSOplus authors, receiving Trans-national Access funding by CALIPSOplus,  can apply for a grant to cover the open-access publishing fees in order to cure this problem and at the same time encourage users to open access publishing. Open Access Publishing Open access (OA) refers to the practice of providing online…

2019 is a year of important upgrades to the Powder Diffraction and Total Scattering beamline P02.1 at PETRA III (DESY Hamburg, Germany). One major upgrade task concerns the implementation of a second 2D detector stage. This includes the implementation of synchronization and computing infrastructure to run both detectors in parallel…

EMMRI – the Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastructures is an international management development Programme tailored to the specific needs of Research Infrastructures. This Programme is designed to give experienced science professionals the skills and knowled EMMRI vision The successful management and leadership of Research Infrastructures requires a complex…

Open Session of the 1st Regional workshop of the European synchrotron and FEL user organisation The European synchrotron and FEL user organisation (ESUO) is aiming at coordinating the synchrotron and FEL radiation user activities within Europe in order to guarantee the realization and the access to the best beamlines in…

The 39th International Free Electron Laser Conference – FEL 19 will be held at the University of Hamburg, Germany from August 26th to August 30th, 2019. This year the conference will focus on recent advances – in free electron laser theory, experiments, – electron beam, – photon beam and undulator…