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December 2024 ESRFnews

Explore ESRF beamlines

ESRF scientists are hosting a series of live

webinars to introduce potential users

to its beamlines. The coming webinar

topics include the tender X-ray nanoscopy

beamline ID21 (12 December 2024); the

surface scattering end station at ID10

(16 January 2025); and the DUBBLE SAXS/

WAXS beamline, BM26 (20 March 2025).

For more details, and to join the webinars,

visit www.esrf.fr/UOC/Webinarseries.

ESRF User Meeting

10–12 February 2025

Held on the EPN campus in Grenoble,

the 35th ESRF User Meeting will bring

together the international community

of ESRF users, beamline staff and the

ESRF User Organisation for three

days of engaging tutorials, insightful

plenary sessions, and user-dedicated

microsymposia, to discuss the potential of

X-ray science with the EBS. Register now.

See news, p7.

Machine learning in cellular

structural biology

26–27 June 2025

This Partnership for Structural Biology

(PSB) symposium is part of a biennial

series, and will be held on the EPN

Campus in Grenoble, in the ESRF

auditorium. More details to come at

www.psb-grenoble.eu/psb-symposia/

Industry meets ESRF

16–17 July 2025

This 1.5-day event will bring together the

diverse community of industrial partners,

intermediaries, RTOs and others to show

how the ESRF’s cutting-edge synchrotron

technology drives innovation and solutions

for real-world industrial challenges. Held

at the ESRF, it will include engaging

talks, poster sessions, interactive booths,

networking opportunities and a beamline

tour, promising a unique space for discovery

and exchange. More details soon.

EVENTS

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Michael Krisch has been selected as the

ESRF director of research for chemistry, life

and medical sciences, and soft matter science.

A solid-state physicist, Krisch has been at

the ESRF since the beginning, aside from a

year spent at the National Synchrotron Light

Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory

in the US. His previous roles include head

of the instrument support and development

division during the EBS upgrade 20152019

and ID17 beamline responsible Director of

research ad interim since March 2023 Krisch

began his new fiveyear mandate in September

following a decision by the ESRF Council

Im delighted with the appointment

of Michael says Jean Daillant the ESRF

directorgeneral We share the same

priorities and his experience in various

positions at the ESRF will be extremely

valuable Together with Gema and the other

directors we now have a great team who are

fully committed to the further development

of the facility for the benefit of science

Costas Fountas has been elected as the

25th president of the council of CERN,

the European centre for particle physics

research. An experimental physicist, Fountas

heads the high-energy physics group at the

University of Ioannina in Greece. After

completing his PhD at Columbia University

in New York city, US, in 1989, he worked for

various institutions in the US and Europe

developing particle data collection systems

most recently at the Large Hadron Collider

at CERN where he has focused on jet cross

sections and searches for new fundamental

interactions

Alongside his experimental work

Professor Fountas has held several

management roles at the CMS experiment

at the LHC and has been a member of many

councils and advisory committees He was

appointed Greek scientific delegate to the

CERN council in 2016 and vice president

of the council in 2022 His new mandate as

president begins in January

Britta Redlich is the new director of

photon science at DESY. An expert in

infrared and terahertz spectroscopy,

Redlich defended her PhD in 1998 at the

Leibniz University of Hanover in Germany,

before taking a postdoctoral role at the

University of Münster. In 2000, she joined

the FOM Institute Rijnhuizen in the

Netherlands, first using the free-electron laser

FEL for research and then managing its

operation and external usage Relocating to

Radboud University in the Netherlands

in 2013 she became chair of FELIX FELs

for Infrared eXperiment in 2015 and

director in 2018

In addition to her research which has

focused on the use of infrared and

terahertz radiation to investigate the properties

of molecular systems and condensed matter

Redlich is a cofounder and member of several

international consortia for acceleratorbased

photon sources and lasers including LEAPS

LaserLab Europe and FELs of Europe