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ESRF Young Scientist Award: Tilman Grünewald Tilman Grünewald, a materials scientist at the Institut Fresnel (CNRS / Aix-Marseille Université / Centrale Marseille) in France, was awarded the ESRF Young Scientist Award 2023 during the ESRF User meeting. He received the award for his outstanding contribution and scientific leadership in the development of X-ray diffraction techniques and their application to the understanding of biomaterials.

ESRF user awarded 2023 Bragg prize Long-time ESRF user Professor Arkadiy Simonov, of ETH Zürich in Switzerland, was awarded the 2023 W.H. and W.L. Bragg Prize for outstanding early-career crystallographers. The prize, established by the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) in 2017, recognises Professor Simonov s development of the three- dimensional difference pair distribution function (3D-∆PDF) approach and its transformative effect on the field of materials.

Inauguration of BEATS, the BEAmline for Tomography, at SESAME synchrotron In June, the BEAmline for Tomography at SESAME (BEATS) in Jordan was inaugurated, thanks to a European project, coordinated by the ESRF, which brought together leading research facilities in the Middle East and European synchrotron radiation facilities. The new beamline will provide full-field X-ray radiography and tomography techniques, extending research opportunities in the region.

ESRF-EBS highlighted in Nature s Communications Physics Nature journal Communications Physics published a paper on ESRF s Extremely Brilliant Source (EBS), confirming its innovative lattice concept paves the way for a brand-new generation of high-energy synchrotrons and opens new scientific opportunities for X-ray science in key fields.