The Committee Research with Synchrotron Radiation (KFS) is elected by the synchrotron ratiation users in Germany to represent their interest and to foster research with synchrotron radiation.
Every three years, a new KFS is elected by the registered synchrotron radiation users. The KFS stays in contact with them by sending out email newsletters. How to register is explained here.
KFS Transfer Workshop, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin/online, 28.-29. April 2022
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The focus of the hybrid KFS Transfer Workshop 2002 in Berlin was on ideas on how to increase the societal benefit of synchrotrons. The result was a vision of a team spirit that welcomes openness and exchange across institutional, legal entity and country borders in the design, operation and development of synchrotrons. [more]
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KFS press release on 3 May 2022
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Synchrotron radiation shows us how materials are are built up and how they work - also materials that we need to become less dependent on fossil fuels, for example in solar cells, in batteries and in the production of green hydrogen. The importance and diversity of synchrotron research for climate protection and energy transition is illustrated in a KFS press release. It contains many examples from research. [more] |
14 to 21 August 2022 - Varberg, Sweden. Application until 31 May 2022
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The RÅC International Summer School offers a one-week top-class multidisciplinary program with international lecturers and tutors for master's students in the final research phase of their study programs, PhD and doctoral students, as well as young postdocs, whose research is connected with the use of X-rays and/or neutrons from these most advanced research infrastructure facilities. The focal theme is "X-rays and Neutrons for a Sustainable Future - Advanced Materials, Climate Crisis, Human Health". For the RÅC International Summer School 2022, applications are welcome from participants from mainly German and Swedish institutions. Full scholarships will be awarded. The deadline for applications is 31 May 2022. [more] |
05-07 September 2022, FU Berlin. Submission of late posters will be possible again from about mid-May.
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We look forward to many personal encounters at the 5th Conference on Research with Synchrotron Radiation, Neutrons and Ion Beams at Large Facilities from 05-07 September 2022 in Berlin. The KFN, KFS and KFSI committees stand for a diverse, up-to-date and technically excellent programme. Abstracts can be submitted in March and April. The event will be rounded off by a reception and a public lecture. We would also like to encourage students who have not yet started their doctoral studies to take part in the conference and to exchange ideas and get inspired. [more] |
Interactive KFS poster at the users' meeting of DESY and European XFEL 2022
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The KFS is the elected representative body of the users of synchrotron radiation in Germany. It promotes the research field at various levels: It brings together the stakeholders in joint meetings, and it faciliates exchange and networking at events. It shows what users need and how important their research is. It makes strategic recommendations and advocates for their implementation - for example, for digitisation and strengthening the transfer between science and industry. At the user's meeting of DESY and the European XFEL, the KFS presents itself on an interactive poster. [more]
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29 June 2021: KFS publishes press release with examples of corona research at synchrotron radiation sources
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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] |
