Hedvika Kadlecová was awarded L’Oréal UNESCO prize for women in science

She runs halfmarathons and at the same time she investigates the processes in quantum vacuum. Hedvika Kadlecová who works in the ELI Beamlines Research Center in Dolní Břežany became one of the three winners of the prestigious award L’Oréal-UNESCO for women in science.
The prize is being awarded in the Czech republic for last 13 years and should support women’s scientific talents. Hedvika entered the competition at the instigation of her professor and recommends to the future scientists to study abroad and create an international net of contacts. In her project she investigates particle processes in vacuum.

ELI Beamlines was visited by the Hungarian Minister László Palkovics

The Hungarian Minister for Innovation and Technology László Palkovics with his delegation visited the ELI Beamlines research centre in Dolní Břežany on the 15th of July 2019.

The successful conclusion of D-STIR project celebrated with Final Conference in Romania

15 partners from 8 European countries (Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Germany, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina) have successfully brought to an end D-STIR project, which has in the last two years worked on understanding and bridging the gap between the scientific community and society at large. Project addressed Danube framework for responsible research and innovation using Socio-Technical Integration Research and has connected technical experts with humanists in order to leverage maximal societal and business potential – i.e. implement RRI. As such D-STIR is extremely important for Danube innovation framework conditions, as innovation does account for socio-economic impact.

HPC cluster ECLIPSE reached 25 million CPU hours

ECLIPSE, a high-performance computing cluster, is currently achieving a significant milestone; it has surpassed 25 million computing hours. As one of the fundamental tools of theoretical research, ECLIPSE helps ELI Beamlines’ scientists with a detailed understanding of the processes involved in laser physics. The usage of the ECLIPSE cluster thus helps with the design of future experiments, scientific discoveries and their publications.

The Institute of Physics has been awarded the HR Excellence in Research Award

On 26th April 2019 the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU) has become a holder of the HR Excellence in Research Award certificate, which is awarded by the European Commission. The FZU, the largest institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, has thus ranked among the group of prestigious European institutions having the right to use this certificate.

ELI Beamlines has sold a patent license abroad

Jaroslav Nejdl, the leader of the research team developing X-ray sources at ELI Beamlines, invented a unique concept how to characterize the XUV beam using a new instrument that combines profilometer and spectrometer function. "The invention is based on a new optical design that allows the beam intensity profile and its spectrum to be measured using a single detector. It simplifies the diagnostic setup considerably, as it was formerly consisting of a spectrometer and a profilometer, each with its detector, which is usually an X-ray camera for tens of thousands euros, ”says J. Nejdl.

First ions and first electrons accelerated by the L3-HAPLS laser at ELI Beamlines

Plasma-based secondary sources have been generated at ELI Beamlines by the L3-HAPLS laser system for the first time. Two short experimental campaigns on ion and electron acceleration, respectively, have been carried out at the TERESA (TEstbed for high-REpetition-rate Sources of laser-Accelerated particles) target area.

Laser drill leads to world record in plasma acceleration

Novel concept marks milestone for future applications of compact particle accelerators

Using a laser to drill through a plasma, scientists working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US have set a new world record for plasma accelerators: In a plasma tube only 20 centimetres long, the scientists accelerated electrons to an energy of 7.8 billion electron volts (GeV), a value for which today's most advanced conventional particle accelerators require hundreds of metres.

US – Extreme Light Infrastructure Scientific Dialogue

Representatives of US and European laboratories, companies and
funding agencies are meeting for the first time on 21-22 February 2019
at ELI Beamlines in the Czech Republic to discuss opportunities for USEuropean
scientific and technological cooperation with ELI.

Standardization of diagnostics and metrology protocols was held at ELI Beamlines