ESRF News December 2022

EDITORIAL

December 2022 ESRFnews

Editor Jon Cartwright Tel +44 (0)117 2303080 E-mail jon.a.cartwright@ icloud.com

Editorial committee Nick Brookes Delphine Chenevier Andy Fitch Michael Krisch Gema Martínez-Criado Joanne McCarthy Edward Mitchell Stéphanie Monaco Annalisa Pastore Qing Qin Francesco Sette

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ESRF news

We, at the ESRF, are marking two years of successful operation of the ESRF s new Extremely Brilliant Source (EBS), and we are welcoming the best machine statistics and performances ever reached. The user community is gradually discovering the new scientific possibilities

and opportunities of the EBS, and you will find in this issue of ESRFnews the first promising results. I wish to mention a particular aspect that is rapidly changing the context in which

laboratories such as the ESRF operate. The ongoing international crisis, and the related energy cost and inflation increases, together with the environmental issues challenging our practices for the long-term sustainability of humankind on our planet, pose many questions that are pressing and require attentive study. This autumn, the ESRF welcomed representatives from large European research

institutes for a workshop entitled Energy for Sustainable Science at Research Infrastructures (ESSRI) 2022 . As one of the key events of Grenoble, European Green Capital 2022 , the workshop aimed to identify the challenges and best practices to implement sustainable solutions at research infrastructures, including increasing the energy efficiency of our facilities and encouraging research into new, energy- efficient technologies. In this context, the EBS represents a major reduction in energy consumption compared with the previous machine (see Insight, p11). The energy and climate-change crisis we are facing today has exposed the crucial

need for innovative technologies to develop greener, more affordable energy, sustainable jobs and economic growth, and a cleaner environment for future generations. In this context, science more than ever has a major role to play, in particular at big science facilities in collaboration with innovation and research ecosystems, which are developing more and more across Europe. As you can see in the themes presented in the present issue of ESRFnews, these challenges are set and continuously updated by the ESRF user community, and they nourish our scientific programme and its capacity to innovate, provide solutions and keep an eye on the future.

Francesco Sette ESRF director- general

We need sustainable science