ESRF News March 2023

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March 2023 ESRFnews

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The beginning of 2023 was marked by the successful return of the ESRF User Meeting

on site for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic (News, p6). More than 400

scientists from our 21 partner countries and beyond participated, with particular

interest shown by young researchers. Almost one in four participants was a PhD

student or a postdoctoral researcher, some coming to a synchrotron and the ESRF for

the first time.

An occasion for networking and collaboration between the ESRF and the scientific

user community, the 2023 edition of the User Meeting was a great opportunity to

provide updates on the new Extremely Brilliant Source (EBS) facilities and on the

new science carried out at the ESRF thanks to the capabilities of the EBS. After more

than two years of successful operation, the EBS is already a science powerhouse with

impressive results in vital fields, including sub-cellular imaging of human organs, time-

resolved serial crystallography, new materials for energy and industry, and the studies

of key molecular components of our universe, such as the discovery of new phases of

water that may exist in giant planets.

As an illustration, the ESRF hosts nine on-going

European Research Council (ERC) grants exploiting

the EBS, including one awarded to materials scientist

Tilman Grünewald, who also received the 2023

ESRF Young Scientist Award from the ESRF User

Organisation for his “outstanding contribution and

scientific leadership in the development of X-ray

diffraction techniques and their application to the

understanding of biomaterials” (p7).

Along with the examples above, this issue of the

ESRF News will give you some of the first results of

EBS science. I hope it will inspire all our users for future

experiments at the ESRF.

Francesco Sette

ESRF director-general

On site, in great numbers

After more

than two years

of successful

operation, the

EBS is already

a science

powerhouse with

impressive results

in vital fields