LINXS COMMUNITY
ENGAGE IN LINXS!
All researchers whose work can develop through the use of X-ray and neutron methods can benefit from being part of the LINXS community and participating in LINXS activities. LINXS is a place to explore new ideas and research questions, to discuss methods and approaches, as well as meet and collaborate with scientists from around the world and from different disciplines and organisations.
People in the
LINXS network
How do I engage with the LINXS community?
There are many ways, on an increasing scale of engagement:
Participate LINXS activities and participate in the scientific discussions.
Contact and engage with existing themes and working groups. These are mostly in charge of and have budget to invite guest researchers. Some also come by reference and collaboration with our partners.
Researchers doing experiments at MAX IV or ESS are always welcome to work at LINXS on an ad hoc basis, as long as there is space available. To ensure space, it is always best to contact us and book ahead.
Initiate new themes, working groups and research activities connected to the LINXS focus areas through collaborations and by participating in regular theme calls. To lead and/or participate (and have your time paid) in a theme requires resources from your home organisation, so please make sure you have established a collaboration and that your home organisation is willing to commit resources before you apply for running a theme.
As a member of a LINXS working group or theme, you get an opportunity to organise research activities connected to your area of interest, and to create new contacts and networks. Most people active in LINXS activities do so with their own time and resources, because they are invested in the topics. LINXS offers administrative support to organise and run activities, disseminate information, and create a setting to highlight and discuss research developing and exploiting x-ray and neutron methods. The overall aim is to further research collaboration within national and international research networks, and to attract critical mass and resources from national and international funding agencies to a specific topic.
The LINXS community welcomes researchers from all disciplines and organisations worldwide.
AFFILIATIONS OF LINXS FELLOWS
LINXS fellows, i.e. guest researchers, or researchers working in LINXS themes and working groups, have come from the following organisations world-wide:
Core Partner - The European Spallation Source is under construction on the outskirts of Lund, a city in southern Sweden. The facility's unique capabilities will both greatly exceed and complement those of today's leading neutron sources, enabling new opportunities for researchers across the spectrum of scientific discovery, including materials and life sciences, energy, environmental technology, cultural heritage and fundamental physics.
COLLABORATIONS
Big Science Sweden enables Swedish companies to supply equipment, materials and services to Big Science research facilities. In the short term, we are increasing Sweden’s industrial return, and in the longer term, we are building up the knowledge and expertise that drive technological development, skills enhancement, internationalisation, and growth in Swedish companies.
Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich (Germany), Lund University (Sweden), University of Porto (Portugal), University of Szeged (Hungary) and Université Paris-Saclay have joined forces to create a pilot European University, driven by European values and committed to higher education and training on challenges related to global health and well-being.
EUGLOH will concern academic and non-academic staff of the five universities as well as around 200,000 students, from Bachelor to PhD. By 2025, 50% of the alliance’s students will have enjoyed mobility (be it physical or virtual) at least once during their studies.
Within EUGLOH, the five universities share the ambition to combine their expertise and resources to offer the best education and training to their students and thereby become a world-class higher education alliance, based on the excellence of their teaching and cutting-edge research and equipment.
This advanced school on X-rays and Neutrons techniques for the study of functional materials for energy is jointly organized by Swedish and French universities and research organisms.Materials for the production, processing, storage or transportation of energy are essential components for current societal challenges. Knowledge of structural organization and dynamics at the atomic scale is therefore an essential prerequisite for the study of these materials, and is based, not exclusively but largely, on the use of short-wave radiation, neutrons or X-rays. Thus, an important aspect of the proposed school is to emphasize the complementarity between similar techniques based on one or the other of the radiations, too often ignored.
Hanseatic League of Science (HALOS) is a new EU project in the program area Öresund-Kattegatt-Skagerak (ÖKS) interreg that started 1st of February 2019. HALOS will build a unique collaboration between Hamburg and South-West Scandinavia, bring together the four unique research facilities MAX IV, ESS, DESY and European XFEL, and create a centre for integrated, world-leading Life Science innovation and research.
The new “Helmholtz-Lund International Graduate School” (HELIOS) is intended to create educational opportunities for doctoral students in Hamburg and Lund to prepare them for a new age in the study of matter on different time and length scales. The rapidly increasing amounts of data and increasingly complex instruments that are emerging in this research, but also in other natural sciences, require new approaches in instrumentation, data acquisition and analysis. HELIOS is designed to prepare young students to handle these challenging tasks and to develop new methods.
The graduate school combines the expertise of DESY, the University of Lund (Sweden) and the University of Hamburg. DESY Director Helmut Dosch says: “With HELIOS we are taking a first step towards a larger structural cooperation with Lund, which like Hamburg has strong university and non-university research institutions with large-scale facilities. Together, we want to prepare our young scientists well to master the increasing complexity of our highly technical experiments and the rapid growth in data volume, and to develop innovative methods of data acquisition and analysis – including artificial intelligence.”
Biofilms Research Center for Biointerfaces is a multidisciplinary research centre within materials and life sciences. The centre’s activities focus on phenomena associated with biofilms and biobarriers. The practical applications of the research include diagnostics, treatment methods, drug formulation and the use and development of medical implants and sensors.
SNSS is an organisation open to all those who are using, or interested in the use of, neutron scattering techniques. There are currently about 200 members. SNSS is affiliated to the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA).
SwedNess is a graduate school for neutron scattering operated by six Swedish universities: Uppsala University (coordinator), Chalmers University of Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Linköping University, Lund University and Stockholm University. SwedNess has the goal to educate doctoral students to expand Sweden's expertise in neutron scattering to exploit ESS now under construction in Lund.
The school focuses on four thematic areas, fundamental studies of chemical and physical phenomena, functional materials, engineering, and life-sciences and its' technology, providing a spread of expertise but also a sufficient critical mass for excellent research and education. The goal is that the graduate students will gain expertise in neutron scattering techniques by exploiting the different existing neutron facilities so as to be qualified for future involvement in the development of the ESS.
Imaging at large-scale facilities offers unique opportunities for measuring a material’s microstructure. Most often, these measurements require quantitative image analysis to obtain the relevant information. To ensure a high scientific output from MAX IV, the QIM center aims at developing and using the most relevant tools for analyzing the data for a given problem.
Our ambition is to bridge the gap between the researchers using the MAX IV and image analysis knowledge. We provide consultancy and collaboration in order to make the process of going from a scan to results as seamless and streamlined as possible. Collaborative efforts will be required to go from the scientific questions to the quantification of the data.
MEMBERS
PARTNERS
Partner - Lund University was founded in 1666 and is ranked among the world’s top 100 universities. The University has 40 000 students and 8 160 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition. The university is host to the MAX IV national Swedish synchrotron facility and boasts a broad range of research and additional open facilities relevant to synchrotron and neutron sciences.
Core Partner - The MAX IV Laboratory is a Swedish national laboratory providing scientists with the most brilliant X-rays for research. With 35 years of experience operating the MAX I-III facilities it is now operating MAX IV, which was inaugurated 21 June 2016.
Core Partner - The European Spallation Source is under construction on the outskirts of Lund, a city in southern Sweden. The facility's unique capabilities will both greatly exceed and complement those of today's leading neutron sources, enabling new opportunities for researchers across the spectrum of scientific discovery, including materials and life sciences, energy, environmental technology, cultural heritage and fundamental physics.
Theme partner – The Chemistry of Life Theme is led by the Leicester Institute for Structural and Chemical Biology, University of Leicester, UK, and is the first LINXS Theme to be led by a University outside Sweden!
Theme partner – The University Museum of Bergen is co-leading the LINXS Heritage Science Theme together with Lund University.
The University Museum of Bergen aims to do high quality research related to collections within Cultural and Natural History, some of the largest collections in Norway.
Theme partner – The Quantum Materials Theme is led by the University of Oxford.
Oxford University provides world-class research and education to benefit society on a local, regional, national and global scale.
Theme partner – The Advanced Rheometry for Neutron and X-ray Science Theme is led by Chalmers University of Technology, SE.
FUNDERS
The following organisations are funding or have funded LINXS
