ISA is a Danish National Facility where research is carried out over a wide range of the natural and life sciences, including
fundamental physics, material science, molecular biology and laboratory astrophysics, using accelerators and storage rings.
Access to ISA
The call for ISA proposals for beam time in 2022 is closed. However if you are interested in applying for beam time on one of the ASTRID2 beam lines, then it may still be possible. Please read the information
contained in the link below and contact the relevant beam line scientist to see if there is time available.
ISA welcomes applications, from national or international groups, for access to any of the ISA research facilities.
The European project LEAPS-INNOV has an open call for proposals from SMEs.
SMEs can benefit from light source capabilities thanks to the European project LEAPS-INNOV, which is supporting industrial projects in an easy, agile and simple procedure. LEAPS-INNOV is funding an access programme that is
tailor-made for SMEs through a programme called "TamaTA-INNOV", for which SMEs can apply using a very simple form.
The ESUO have launched a questionnaire related to the absence of TNA funding
To all past, present and potential users of synchrotrons and FELs in Europe. With the end of the CALIPSOplus programme last October TransNational Access (TNA) funding to access synchrotron and FEL facilities, paying travel and accommodation costs for one or
more members on a beamtime, has finished and, at present, there is no direct replacement by the European Commission in the form of a general access programme that would continue to provide TNA to
all researchers from across Europe no matter the topic. In this regard, we ask you to complete
this questionnaire before the end of March. This is an initiative of ESUO, the European Synchrotron and FEL User Organisation in cooperation with LEAPS.
The outcome of this questionnaire will empower ESUO to continue advocating both to the European Commission and to the National Funding Agencies for TNA funding for all science topics and for all scientists.
Pre-registration for the conference is open, deadline 11th February 2022.
This is the first LEAPS Topical Conference aiming to bring together the latest achievements from the synchrotron radiation user community with those from source
development and instrumentation. The focus of the first LEAPS Conference will be dedicated to the opportunities emerging from the Quantum Technologies R&D. This conference
shall showcase where today and future synchrotron radiation contributes to the advancements of Quantum Technologies.A number of grants will be offered to students in the field
of photon science and related areas to attend LEAPS meets QT 2022.
CALL for students / young scientists to apply for grants by 21st January 2022.
LEAPS is delighted to announce the first of its conference series bringing together LEAPS and a Science community, starting with the latest developments in quantum technologies,
and identify opportunities for both sides. A number of grants will be offered to students in the field of photon science and related areas to attend LEAPS meets QT 2022. The grants
will include a waiver of the conference registration fees and accommodation during the Workshops days. The grants will also include support for travel costs.
Master and PhD students are eligible for these grants
Applications for TNA under the new EU Horizon 2020 INFRAIA programme MOSBRI are now being accepted.
Transnational access (TNA) under MOSBRI will provide free access (paid by the project) to the consortium's laboratories and is especially aimed at young researchers.
The AU-CD beamline on ASTRID2 is one of the laboratories open for access, with the coordination and management of all TNA for the network carried out by the AU-CD team.
Apply for TNA at AU-SRCD here. and read more about MOSBRI at ISA here.
February 2021
The European Union’s Horizon 2020 INFRAIA programme has awarded a 5 M€ infrastructure grant to MOSBRI (Molecular-Scale Biophysics Research Infrastructure
https://www.mosbri.eu),
a consortium of 13 academic centres of excellence and 2 industrial partners from 11 different European countries, coordinated by Institut Pasteur (Paris, France).
In practice, this means that we are opening our laboratories to European researchers, so that they can travel to where the best equipment and the best expertise
is. Transnational access (TNA) under MOSBRI will provide free access (paid by the project) to the consortium's laboratories and is especially aimed at young researchers.
The AU-CD beamline on ASTRID2 is one of the laboratories open for access, with the coordination and management of all TNA for the network carried out by the AU-CD team.
See the MOSBRI press release announcing the network.
December 2020
Remember the animation prepared by Coldvision Studio showing the injection and storage of electrons in ASTRID? Well a brand new animation has been prepared by Coldvision Studio which now includes ASTRID2 and the top-up injection process.
The images below are screenshots from the animation, but the full animation can be viewed here.
December 2020
A Lego model of ASTRID2 with a scale of approimxately 1:15 has been built and is now on display at the entrance to the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
At first it was just an interesting project, to see if the Lego bricks available allowed us to reproduce the major elements of the ring in a recognizable way.
When we chose the colours of the magnets in ASTRID2 in the design phase, we specifically asked them to be the colours of Lego bricks, though not with making a model
in mind at that time, so colours weren’t a problem. The digital Lego model was added to and tweaked over several years until we decided that we should try and actually
make it. The model is made up of about 2500 pieces. Click here to view more photos of the model.
September 2020
Analytical Research Infrastructures of Europe (ARIE) join forces to face COVID-19 and other viral and microbial threats.
ARIE, of which the ASTRID2 light source at Aarhus University is a member, have joined forces to publish a position paper where their plan to tackle the five Horizon Europe Missions is presented.
The final version of this position paper has now been released and can be viewed here.
A second ARIE joint position paper on “VIRAL and MICROBIAL THREATS”, has also been published (view here).
In 2020 despite disruption due to the corona virus pandemic, ASTRID2 provided 28 weeks of user beam time to the 6 operational beam lines, with normal operation at 180 mA top-up. Machine physics studies are ongoing in order to improve stability and lifetime of the beam.
The newest beam line, SGM4, has been commissioned and is awaiting the final installation and commissioning of the endstation.
In 2008 ISA was awarded money to build a new high brilliance synchrotron storage ring, ASTRID2. Construction of the ring began in 2011 and by April 2012 the whole ring was
under vacuum and ready for testing.
The first beam was injected into the ASTRID2 ring on
Monday 14th May 2012 and the first full turn of ASTRID2 was accomplished on Tuesday the 10th July 2012. On the 7th
of August electrons circulated the ring for almost 200 µs (1300 turns of the ring). On the 2nd of November
2012 a stored beam with RF was acheived for the first time. Commissioning of ASTRID2 proceeded well in 2013 and on the
13th of September 2013 200 mA of current was stored in ASTRID2 and top-up at 200 mA successful. In December 2013 the first external user came to do experiments on the AU-UV beam line.
2014 saw the commissioning of the AU-SGM3, AU-Matline and AU-CD beam lines, with all beam lines fully operational by mid 2014. In early 2016 the newest beam line, AMOLine, was commissioned.
