On 4 March, the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Audrey Azoulay visited SESAME on her first official visit to Jordan.
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Maher Attal, an accelerator physicist who has been acting Technical Director of SESAME since 24 September 2019, has now been confirmed in this position.
The first published paper utilizing data taken at the recently operational IR (Infrared) spectromicroscopy beamline of SESAME describes an interesting possible research path in the identification of the background of preeclampsia, a serious hypertensive disorder with unclear etiology and lack of reliable diagnostic tests.
On 16 February, Andrea Lausi arrived in Jordan to take up the position of Scientific Director of SESAME.
No less than 151 proposals have been submitted in response to SESAME’s third call (Call “2”) for experiments on its three beamlines that closed on 27 January, thus confirming the ever-increasing demand for use of its facilities.
On Monday, 23rd December 2019, at 13:21, scientists at the SESAME light source successfully delivered the first X-ray monochromatic beam to the experimental station of the Materials Science (MS) beamline, that will be used in applications of the X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) technique in materials science.
The 4th of December 2019 marked the inauguration of SESAME’s Sergio Fubini Guest House, SESAME’s permanent Guest House which replaces the temporary Guest House that had been constructed pending construction of the former.
Some 80 scientists from the region and beyond are meeting at SESAME on 30 November and 1 December to discuss the scientific programme and latest results from the laboratory.