Dr. Andrea Lausi
Scientific Director, SESAME
Allan, JORDAN
will be held on Wednesday, March 22nd,2023
At Building 51, Ground floor, Auditorium 015,
from 12 pm – 13 pm
ABSTRACT:
SESAME, a regional research opportunity
SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East), hosted by Jordan,
is the Middle East’s first major international research infrastructure resulting from an unprecedented international collaboration.
Open to users in 2018, SESAME now has a growing user community exploiting the facility’s three operational beamlines. Two additional beamlines, with capital funding supported by Europe through the “BEATS” grant and by the German “HESEB” project funded by the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, will soon come into user service, taking the total beamline portfolio to five. A sixth beamline, “TXPES”, funded by the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye, is presently in the design stage. That SESAME is now operational with a critical mass of beamlines, publication records in line with what can be expected from a starting facility, a large prevalence of authors from the region, collaborating with the LEAPS European light source facilities, and that the region is starting to project own beamline shows how the project has evolved into a healthy hub of scientific excellence in the Middle East, where techniques based on spectroscopy, diffraction, absorption, and imaging allow researchers to carry out investigations in fields ranging from physics to chemistry, from biology to environmental sciences, from medicine to cultural heritage.