European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)
The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Europe’s largest synchrotron radiation facility, is located in Grenoble, France and has 22 European countries as members. Sweden is a member through Nordsync, a Nordic organisation initiated by NordForsk. The ESRF ring excels within the hard radiation range and has recently undergone an extensive upgrade to a fourth-generation synchrotron light source. The vast majority of synchrotron light-based methods is available at ESRF. Swedish researchers use ESRF for structural biological studies, to determine the atomic and electron structure of materials in standard states and under high pressure and/or high temperatures, to study metals in biological systems, to determine reaction dynamics of catalytic systems, and for three-dimensional imaging of objects, such as fossils of animals and plants (tomography).
At Uppsala University, there is a Centre for Photonics that works for collaboration in the development and use, within all of the university’s research areas, of photonics.
The Council for Research Infrastructures (RFI) funds this research infrastructure, which the Swedish Research Council considers to be in the national interest.
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Olle Björneholm, Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
