From Beamtime to Workflows and Beyond: How to Connect a Facility and its Users into the Innovation Ecosystem

ABSTRACT

To give our users the full benefit of the optimized suite of instrumentation, ALBA currently develops multimodal workflows for target areas, providing the user with methodologies to reach the research goals in shorter time and in systems with increased complexity and inhomogeneity, largely benefitting the connection between basic science and innovation. The talk will summarize ALBA’s strategy and underlines this with examples from spintronics and magnonics and its correlation to beyond-CMOS electronics. A central part will be the development of multimodal workflows and the use of data analytics as well as the development of new access modes and data strategies which will allow to combine public and proprietary data sets in a secure way, fully enhancing AI capabilities.

BIOGRAPHY

As veteran of the Synchrotron light exploitation, Klaus 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, including device related areas, 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. Educated in the German system, Klaus has spent most of his scientific career in the US, working at the APS, the University of Chicago and NSLS-(I and II), before he moved to science management as Scientific Director of ALBA in 2019.

Dr. Laura Paradis-Fortin and Dr. Asif Ali are postdoctoral researchers at the ALBA Synchrotron. Dr. Laura Paradis-Fortin specializes in scientific research involving X-ray diffraction and electron diffraction.  Dr. Asif Ali specializes in scientific research involving electronic structure and photoelectron spectroscopy.

Speakers:

Dr. Laura PARADIS-FORTIN (Researcher in ALBA)

Title: 

A Combinatorial Roadmap for Solving Complex, Multi-Element Crystal Structures

Speakers:

Dr. Asif ALI (Researcher in ALBA)

Title:

Visualizing spins in the momentum space via spin-ARPES: A guiding tool for spintronics