Mikael on recruitment and national collaborations
Head of School Mikael Lindström, writes about the CBH School's recruitment of Professor Tuuli Lappalainen and two exciting national infrastructures.
The recruitment of the professorship in genomics at the CBH School is now complete and we are pleased to announce that Tuuli Lappalainen from the New York Genome Center will come to us starting on 15 May. At the same time, Tuuli will take over the role of Director of National Genomics Infrastructure, NGI, at SciLifeLab. Under the leadership of Joakim Lundeberg, NGI has developed into one of Sweden's best infrastructures. Many thanks to Joakim and a warm welcome to Tuuli. Feel free to read more about Tuuli in an interview by Sabina Fabrizi.
Other major national infrastructures that are underway are Max IV and ESS in Lund. At the Max IV laboratory, we will build an experimental environment (funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, KAW) for soft materials, ForMax , which will receive synchrotron light from 2021 and start user operations in 2022.
Today, we have a very good collaboration with the research center DESY in Germany and adjunct professor Stephan Roth , who over the years has held a large number of practical doctoral courses in using synchrotron measurements to characterize different materials.
For KTH and CBH, it is important to develop strategies for the use of these two large national infrastructures, so that as many researchers as possible can use the facilities. There are great opportunities here for researchers in a wide range of disciplines, and that collaboration with existing facilities gives us opportunities to understand how we can best utilize the advanced characterization technology. In the near future, we will discuss an even closer collaboration with DESY. We will return with what that structure will look like.
Mikael