18 December 2024
Chemistry triggered by light: Felix Allum takes up Humboldt fellowship at FLASH
Spectroscopy expert Felix Allum from Stanford University will use DESY’s free-electron laser FLASH for time-resolved X-ray spectroscopic investigations of the dynamics of organic photochemical reactions with potential synthetic applications. He comes to Hamburg through a Humboldt Research Fellowship, a funding programme offered by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for international researchers to conduct ...26 August 2024
60 years of accelerated research with synchrotron radiation at DESY
The Deutsche Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY is celebrating ‘60 years of research with synchrotron radiation in Hamburg’ with a festive colloquium on 26 August 2024. Around 300 former companions are coming to DESY to mark the occasion. Since commissioning its first particle accelerator in 1964, DESY has been one of the world's pioneers of research with synchrotron light - a special type of X-ray radiation generated ...