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December 2025 ESRFnews
USER CORNER
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15 January 2026 Submission deadline for Long Term
proposals and new access mode HUBs
for 2026/II
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2–4 February 2026 Onsite User Meeting (deadline for
registration: January 12th 2026)
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1 March – 27 July 2026 Scheduling period 2026/I
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2 March 2026
Submission deadline for standard and
BAG proposals for 2026/II
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7 March 2026 Experiment report submission deadline
for experiments done in 2025/II
Users with questions, comments and
ideas are welcome to contact the User
Organisation Committee (UOC) at any
time. Representatives of each scientific
community and their contact details
can be found at www.esrf.eu/UOC.
ESRF contacts: www.esrf.eu/Contacts.
KEY CONTACTS DATES FOR THE DIARY
NEWS FROM THE BEAMLINES
Right: Tilman Grünewald, chair of the UOC.
BM08 LISA
The new BLISS Beamline control software has been in operation
since September This upgrade significantly broadens the
experimental possibilities especially by enabling faster data
collection such as quickXAS and mapping streamlining
automated data processing and enhancing the FAIRness of the data
collected at the facility New macros and procedures are being
continuously developed and added to better serve the evolving
needs of the user community
ID01
BM01
BM02
BM05
BM07
BM08
BM14
BM16
BM20
BM23
BM25
BM26
BM28
BM29
BM30
BM31
BM32
ID02
ID03
ID06
ID09
ID10
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ID12
ID13
ID16B
ID17
ID18
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ID26
ID27
ID28
ID29
ID30
ID31
ID32
ID15B
CM01
HPLF
BM18
ID14
CM02
BM28 (XMAS)
In order to use the full potential of the ESRF–EBS, especially the
higher energies available at XMaS, a new Mirion 7-element Ge
detector is now available for spectroscopy studies up to 47 keV. A
long-awaited successful experiment on barium in coral skeletons
was performed by Adrian Finch and Anouk Borst: see tinyurl.
com/bariumcoral.
ESRF Sample Tracking
All sample parcels or dewars sent to the ESRF, whether for
remote experiments or as advance shipments for onsite
experiments, must be declared in the User Portal (Experiment
Session A form) and registered as parcels in the Data Portal
platform before being dispatched via a forwarder. Full details at
https://www.esrf.fr/SampleTransport.
BM30 (FAME)
Each year, the CNRS awards
the “collective crystal” award to
teams of research support and
assistance staff for projects that
exhibit remarkable technical
mastery, cooperation,
applications, innovation and
influence. In 2025, the FAME-
UHD team was among the
winners for its work on X-ray
absorption spectroscopy.
Below: from left to right, front
row: Sophie Min, Isabelle
Kieffer; back row: Mauro
Rovezzi, Olivier Proux, Antonio
Aguilar, and Eric Lahera.
ID13
The old u18 in-vacuum
undulator has been replaced
by a new insertion device
CPMU16.4 to expand the
accessible energy range to
10–20 keV (first harmonic).
The commissioning is not yet
complete but has been very
successful so far. At a later
stage an additional 25–40 keV
is envisaged. This will help
users to optimise their
experiments regarding
accessible q-range and XRF-
emission energies/absorption
edges, mitigation of radiation
damage, and penetration of
samples and sample
environments