LEAPS partner Canadian Lightsource Inc. (CLSI), Canada’s national synchrotron facility located at the University of Saskatchewan, is looking for a Chief Executive Officer.
The job description as well as additional details are available here.
LEAPS partner Canadian Lightsource Inc. (CLSI), Canada’s national synchrotron facility located at the University of Saskatchewan, is looking for a Chief Executive Officer.
The job description as well as additional details are available here.
LEAPS welcomes a new twinning partner, the Siberian Circular Photon Source (SKIF), a fourth generation light source currently being built in the Science City Kol’tsovo near (15 km) Novosibirsk, Russia.
The project is funded by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education and coordinated by the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis. The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics will design and produce the accelerators, including the injector complex and the main storage ring.
According to the Order of the Government of the Russian Federation, the main storage ring of the SRF SKIF has to be commissioned by December 31, 2023 together with the first beamline. By the end of 2024, six beamlines of the first phase of the project implementation will be operating.
After commissioning, SRF SKIF will start providing access to six experimental stations to conduct advanced research in diverse fields including solid-state physics and chemistry, materials science, and biomedicine. Beamtime distribution will be decided by free competition peer-reviewed by international expert panels. The targeted value of user beamtime is 4500 hours per year with the user operation uptime of no less than 95%.
The LEAPS community is looking forward to a fruitful collaboration.
The 4th LEAPS Plenary Meeting offered an exciting agenda to share the latest of the LEAPS collaboration. The meeting focused on the new LEAPS strategy and LEAPS contribution to the new European Research Area, aspects which were discussed with participants from the EC as well as partner projects like ExPaNDS and PaNoSC.
An update was given on LEAPS pilot project LEAPS-INNOV as well as on several other proposals, which are in the pipeline. A session was dedicated to DIGITAL LEAPS , triggered by the wish to increasing the resilience to times of crisis. “This program is a hotbed of developments towards greener and more efficient environments for our staff, users and industrial partners”, explains Caterina Biscari, Chair of LEAPS.
LEAPS IDEA, the taskforce dedicated to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Anti-discrimination was also present with the newly published Toolbox of Best Practices of the various LEAPS member facilities. From now on, the IDEA topics will have a dedicated moment within the future LEAPS Plenary Meetings. The series of seminars started with a talk on the “Science of Inclusion” by expert S. Estradé.
This three-day meeting demonstrated once again how strong, collaborative and productive the LEAPS team is, despite the recent challenges. “Sharing experiences and best practices, building-up solutions, learning from difficulties, opening to other communities, has made our links stronger” concluded Biscari.