SESAME call for proposals

04 October, 2025

We wish to inform you that the eleventh Call for proposals is now open for the user period April 01st, 2026, to September 30th, 2026.

The deadline for submitting proposals is November 18th, 2025 at 23:59 (Jordan time).

Proposals must be prepared and submitted through the online portal:
https://sup.sesame.org.jo/pls/vuo/guest.startup

Before preparing your proposal, please carefully check all the information available at the address: https://www.sesame.org.jo/beamlines. We would recommend that you contact the relevant beamline staff to discuss your proposed project.

The SESAME five operational beamlines:

BM02 - IR Infrared spectromicroscopy beamline. 

More: https://www.sesame.org.jo/beamlines/ir

BM08 - XAFS/XRF (X-ray Absorption Fine Structure/X-ray Fluorescence) spectroscopy beamline

More: https://www.sesame.org.jo/beamlines/xafs-xrf

ID09 - MS/XPD Materials Science/X-ray Powder Diffraction beamline

More: https://www.sesame.org.jo/beamlines/ms

ID10 - BEATS (BEAmline for Tomography at SESAME) beamline

More: https://www.sesame.org.jo/beamlines/beats

ID11L - HESEB Helmholtz SESAME soft X-ray beamline.

More: https://www.sesame.org.jo/beamlines/heseb

Important Note: Reporting Requirement

Starting from the next Call (open for the user period October 01st, 2026 to March 31st, 2027), SESAME will activate a reporting procedure. Users that have been allocated beamtime in the present call will be required to submit an Experiment Report for each beamtime session that has already been performed. The Experiment Report will need to briefly summarise the experiment and will be accessible to the Proposal Review Committee, SESAME Management, and beamline staff.