Committee Research with Synchrotron Radiation

The Committee Research with Synchrotron Radiation is elected by the synchrotron ratiation users in Germany to represent their interest and to foster research with synchrotron radiation.

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!

ErUM-Pro call published

25 August 2021: The BMBF has published the Directive for Funding Selected Topics in Research on Matter at Large Scale Facilities in the framework Research on the Universe and Matter - ErUM at www.bundesanzeiger.de (Amtlicher Teil).

The German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has published the "Directive for Funding Selected Topics in Research on Matter at Large Scale Facilities" (former joint research). Proposal deadline is November 1, 2021 and funding is planned to start on July 1, 2022. [Information by PT DESY] [Publication Bundesanzeiger]

RACIRI Summer School 2022

25 August 2021: Save the date

Anticipation of the next "real" Summer School on the Kattegatt beach with personal encounters was in the air at the virtual RACIRI Summer Lecture on August 24, 2021: According to current planning, the RACIRI Summer School 2022 will take place from August 14-21, 2022 at Varberg Kusthotell in Sweden. [more]

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]