Commission "Condensed Matter Research at Large Scale Facilities"

Save the date: SNI2022 in Berlin

September 05-07 2022 in the FU Berlin

Planning for SNI2022 has begun and we look forward to many face-to-face encounters at the 5th Conference on Research with Synchrotron Radiation, Neutrons and Ion Beams at Large Facilities from 05-07 September 2022 in Berlin. More information to follow!

Synchrotrons accelerate corona research

29 June 2021: KFS publishes press release with examples of corona research at synchrotron radiation sources

To fight COVID-19, we need vaccines and medicine, and to develop these, we need to know the SARS-CoV-2 virus in detail. The virus cannot be seen with a normal light microscope, since it is smaller than the wavelength of visible light. Synchrotrons can produce the short-wave photons or X-rays required. It is of great advantage that we have an outstanding research infrastructure established in the last decades, both in Germany and abroad with German participation. Synchrotron light source facilities include PETRA III and FLASH at the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, BESSY II at the Helmholtz Centre Berlin (HZB), European XFEL near Hamburg or ESRF in Grenoble, France. They allow the virus to be imaged with atomic precision. [more]

Helmut Schober and Andreas Meyer take on new tasks

June 3 2021: Personalia

Prof. Andreas Meyer is to become German Associate Director of the Institut Laue-Langevin ILL in Grenoble (France) on October 1, 2021. He will thus partly succeed Prof. Helmut Schober, who will join the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund (Sweden) as Director General on November 1, 2021. Both are proven experts in research with neutrons and have the interests of the users in mind through their membership in KFN. Congratulations! [Press release of the ESS] [Press release of the ILL]