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

2. 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 »: 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

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

4. 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 %
Germany %
Italy 15 %
United Kingdom 14 %
Spain %
Switzerland %
Benesync %
(Belgium, The Netherlands)
Nordsync %
(Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)
Associates:
Centralsync %
(Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia)
Austria %
Israel %
Poland %
Portugal %
South Africa %
The ESRF is a multinational endeavour, with an annual 100 million Euro budget, and a principle of « juste retour ». 4 4

5. 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 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, )

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
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

7. 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

8. Thank you! 8