Pre-XFEL

Pre-XFEL is an EU funded project aiming to support the foundation of the European XFEL, the new research infrastructure in Europe

Its main purpose is to provide all technical, legal and financial documents necessary for the foundation of the European XFEL company. One of the main activities under this project is therefore the immediate recruitment of international staff, mostly in the relevant scientific and technical fields, supported by the EC funding. If you are interested in joining the European XFEL team please have a look at the job offers.

In addition Pre-XFEL should serve as a platform to mobilize and stimulate the potential users community. Research at the European XFEL will cover a broad range of natural sciences. To give the users an adequate knowledge about the possibilities and requirements at the European XFEL a course of workshops and user meetings will be organised.

As a third objective Pre-XFEL should facilitate the specification (and where appropriate, research and development, prototyping and industrialization) of buildings, technical infrastructure, technical components.
The project started in July 2007, it is coordinated by DESY.

Partners

Partners of the Pre-XFEL project are:

• Stiftung Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (www.desy.de)
• Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (www.bmbf.de)
• Science and Technology Facilities Council (www.stfc.ac.uk)
• The Swedish Research Council (www.vr.se)
• Stockholm University (www.su.se)
• Consorcio para la Construcción, Equipamiento y Explotación del Laboratorio de Luz Sincrotrón (www.cells.es)
• Sincrotrone Trieste ScpA (www.elettra.trieste.it)
• Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (www.infn.it)
• Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen (www.ku.dk)
• Ministère Délégué à la Recherche – Département DGRI – A2
• The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies (www.ipj.gov.pl)
• Pavol Jozef Safárik University, Kosice , Slovakia (www.upjs.sk)
• Comenius University, Bratislava (www.uniba.sk)
• Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (www.szfki.hu)
• Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow (www.itep.ru)
• Paul Scherrer Institut (www.psi.ch)
• Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia – CNR (www.infm.it)
• Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (www.mec.es)

Contact

If you have any questions concerning the Pre-XFEL project please contact

Matthias Kreuzeder
DESY
22603 Hamburg
Germany

phone: +49 40 8998 4130
mail: matthias.kreuzeder@desy.de