25TH SYMPOSIUM ON PHOTONICS AND OPTICS SPO 2024

SOLARIS Centre - facility status and research highlights

Nov 4, 2024, 10:35 AM

20m

Room 103 (Zoom and Faculty of Physics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine)

Invited Talk USyNC Workshop Unifying Efforts: Developing the Ukrainian Synchrotron Community and Research Infrastructure

Speaker

Prof. Marcin Sikora (SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, Jagiellonian University, Czerwone Maki 98, 30-392 Krakow, Poland)

Description

The SOLARIS synchrotron in Krakow, Poland, is a third-generation light source operating at 1.5 GeV electron energy. The project was officially initiated in 2010, the first synchrotron light was observed in 2016, and the first user experiment was performed in 2018. At present, SOLARIS Centre offer access to 10 research instruments at seven beamlines and two cryo-electron microscopes, and is constructing five additional end-stations. Research opportunities offered by SOLARIS, the only synchrotron in Central-Eastern Europe, allow for conducting unique scientific projects in fundamental research and applied sciences. Access to the research infrastructure of SOLARIS Centre is free of charge and provided upon the assessment of beamtime proposals by the international review panel. Financial support to foreign user visits, including Ukrainian researchers, is possible through several schemes, e.g. Horizon Europe projects NEPHEWS and RIANA as well as CERIC-ERIC consortium.