Event

Caterina Biscari, Chair of LEAPS and Director of ALBA, participated today as a speaker at the Microscopy Conference 2021, where she presented the Analytical Research Infrastructures of Europe during the workshop on Research Infrastructures for Electron Microscopy in Europe.

“The ARIE network is present in the MC2021 conference, highlighting the complementarity of all European Research Infrastructures in providing state-of-the-art instruments to the scientific, technological and industrial community for tackling the challenges our society is facing,” said Caterina Biscari.

A round table followed the five foreseen presentations with the participation of Giorgio Rossi (Trieste/IT), who spoke about the NFFA-Europe paradigm, Peter A. Van Aken (Stuttgart/DE), who presented the success story of ESTEEM, Rafal Edward Dunin-Borkowski (Jülich/DE) who gave an overview on the strategies of the e-DREAM initiative for European electromicroscopy and finally José Maria De Teresa (Zaragoza/ES) who spoke about lab sinergies. This roundtable discussion was facilitated by Nicolas Villacorta (Jülich/DE) and Vittorio Morandi (Bologna/IT).

“3rd AOBA summit is being celebrated, where the Asian, American and European synchrotron and FELS facilities are discussing the impact of the pandemic on the operation and future developments of the field, aiming at a closer collaboration among regions.”

– Caterina Biscari, LEAPS Chair

There was a strong presence of LEAPS today at the 3rd International Forum for Innovation in Next Generation Synchrotron Radiation SR Science in a Post-COVID-19 World – organized by the Tohoku University, Japan.

During the conference, among other COVID-19 related topics, many representatives of LEAPS facilities as well as Caterina Biscari, LEAPS Chair addressed the challenges of remote access to accelerator-based photon sources in Europe.