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9th ESRF-ILL Summer School On 3 September, 18 post-graduate students from 11 different countries joined the 9th international student summer programme organised by the ESRF and the ILL. Students followed a series of introductory lectures on the principles and applications of X-ray and neutron science and worked on scientific projects, tutored by ESRF and/or ILL scientists.

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ESRF scientist receives ERC grant On 5 September, ESRF researcher Can Yıldırım, specialising in materials science and diffraction imaging, was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) starting grant. Yıldırım s project aims to develop pink-beam Dark-Field X-ray Microscopy (pDFXM), a new technique to understand and visualise local structural phenomena in metals, especially recrystallisation. This brings the total number of ERC grants hosted at the ESRF and based on the capabilities of EBS up to 10.

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ESRF signs MOU with the European Innovation Council In July, the ESRF signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the European Innovation Council (EIC). The ESRF will offer five tailor-made services for EIC beneficiaries, such as consultancy to support innovation using advanced analytical techniques and fast-track advanced synchrotron X-ray analytics and materials characterisation.

ESRF in Netflix documentary The ESRF was featured in an international Netflix documentary called Unknown: Cave of Bones , which aired in July. The documentary explores the work of South Africa-based palaeoanthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Lee Berger, who is best known for having discovered two new species of early human relatives Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi, both scanned again recently at the ESRF at beamline BM18.