Cristina Pereira

As of January 2023, current LEAPS Vice Chair Jean Daillant, Director of SOLEIL in France, will take over the role of LEAPS Chair. The symbolic LEAPS baton was handed over to him by the outgoing Chair Leonid Rivkin from PSI, Switzerland on October 28 during the LEAPS General Assembly, collocated with the LEAPS 5th Plenary Meeting, at PSI in Switzerland (see photos below).

Leonid Rivkin, reflecting on his year of chairmanship said he was very proud of what LEAPS achieved in 2022 in spite of the many challenges and crisis faced by all our organizations across Europe.

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The LEAPS General Assembly, in its meeting at the Paul Scherrer Institute on October 28, 2022, elected Britta Redlich, Director of the FELIX Laboratory, Radboud University, Netherlands, as the new LEAPS Vice Chair starting from January 1^st 2023.

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May 14 to 19, 2023 – Hotel Hermitage, La Biodola Bay, Elba Island, Italy

Registrations open / Abstract Submissions open

On the charming island of Elba, in May 2023, the frontiers of Life Sciences meet the cutting-edge developments of Large Facilities.

LEAPS – the League of European Accelerator based-Photon Sources is organizing its 2023 Conference LEAPS Meets Life Sciences Conference. During five residential days, participants will have the opportunity to hear from a slate of inspiring, thought, and research leaders in the areas of New Biology, Unmet Medical Needs, Correlative Imaging, and Structural Dynamics. The participants will contribute with selected talks and posters to the scientific discussion by submitting their own work.

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