Where? Who? When? What? Why? (How?) Ray Barrett X-ray Optics Group ESRF 1

The first 3rd generation hard X-ray source European Synchrotron Radiation Facility: hard X-ray source Grenoble – France (around 1.5 hours South of Geneva) EMBL Presentation of the Grenoble  » scientific polygone »: 10.000 people (including 6000 researchers and students) Industry (Schneider and ST Microelectronics), R&D 250 patents/year ●…most intense research neutron source ●…most intense and reliable synchrotron source

A ‘small’ large facility in Grenoble CERN-LHC 27km 844m

Co-operation of 20 countries The ESRF is a « société civile » under French law, but it is financed and run by 20 countries. Annual budget: 100 million euros Staff: 600 Members: France 27.5 % Germany 25.5 % Italy 15 % United Kingdom 14 % Spain 4 % Switzerland 4 % Benesync 6 % (Belgium, The Netherlands) Nordsync 4 % (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden) Associates: Centralsync 1.05 % (Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia) Austria 1 % Israel 1 % Poland 1 % Portugal 1 % South Africa 0.3 % The ESRF is a multinational endeavour, with an annual 100 million Euro budget, and a principle of « juste retour ». 4 4

The ESRF in numbers Nineteen Years of Operation of the ESRF: The brightest and most productive SR source worldwide User operation begins in 1994 ~ 2000 Experiment proposals each year ~ 7000 User visits per year ~ 1500 Experimental Sessions ~ 1800 Refereed Scientific Publications per year (over 21000 since 1994)… of which ~200 per year in high impact journals (Nature, Science, Cell, PNAS, PRL, …) ~ 650 people ~ 42 Synchrotron Radiation Beamlines ~ 85 M€ Annual Budget (55% Personnel, 25% Operation, 20% Investment) ~ 13 M€/year Upgrade Budget (~95% Investment, 2009-15)

Investigating matter and materials Fields of application Investigating matter and materials The ESRF produces X-rays to serve a wide range of scientific disciplines Solid-state physics Nuclear & particle Physics Chemistry Medicine Life sciences Slide ILL + ESRF Atomic structure Magnetic / electronic properties of materials Cosmology Structure / dynamics of new materials Structure of interfaces Pharmaceutical molecules New therapy protocols Protein crystallography Protein dynamics 6 6

Investigating matter and materials Fields of application Investigating matter and materials The ESRF produces X-rays to serve a wide range of scientific disciplines Engineering Material science Earth sciences Environment Cultural heritage Slide ILL + ESRF Development of new manufacturing / processing technologies Material failure Structural properties of high-performance materials Soft-condensed matter Structure and formation of earth’s crust Geo-dynamics Behaviour of bacteria under extreme conditions Heavy Metals in the Environment: origin, interaction and remediation Non-destructive X-ray imaging Artefacts Palaeontology 7 7

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