ABSTRACT
ALBA, the national Spanish synchrotron light source, was designed as a 3rd generation source and provides since 2012 public and proprietary user access with a portfolio of 10 fully operating beamlines, two operational transmission electron microscopes, and four additional beamlines in construction or commissioning. In the past three years, ALBA and its user community are planning and have started to implement the upgrade of the facility to a 4th generation source, focusing the program around multi-length scale imaging, big data and the abilities to study materials and devices under working or growth conditions. With replacing the storage ring by a multi-bend achromat, remodeling and optimizing the existing beamline program, adding additional key beamlines and integrating additional imaging and research platforms, ALBA will provide essential tool sets and methodologies, enabling our users to address the challenges, our society faces. The talk will give a short overview on the upgrade of the ring and will present an overview how users can benefit from this suite of tools.
BIOGRAPHY
Educated in the German system, Dr. Klaus Attenkofer has spent most of his scientific career in the US, working at the APS/Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago and NSLS-(I and II)/Brookhaven National Laboratory, before he moved to science management as Scientific Director of ALBA in 2019. As veteran of the Synchrotron light exploitation, Dr. Attenkofer has actively participated on experiments at the second, third and now fourth generation storage rings. Starting his career in magnetism, he switched soon to a wider range of material sciences and catalysis, always with the focus on finding new ways to provide the needed information, and not shy of developing new electronics, data acquisition systems, x-ray optics, detectors and methodologies, including the usage of data analytics approaches.
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