Hamburg decides to fund CFEL building

In today’s session, the Senate of Hamburg approved the construction of the CFEL Centre. With a cost of 50 million Euros, a building will be erected on the Hamburg University site next to the DESY campus until 2010, with laboratories and offices for approx. 300 scientists.The Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) will be supported by the University of Hamburg, the Max Planck Society and DESY. The institute will be entitled to be a national centre of competence, “because it will bundle different specialist competencies, beyond the classical institute boundaries” explained DESY Director Albrecht Wagner. “Under the umbrella of CFEL, we will create a research environment for scientists in Germany that guarantees the optimal use of the DESY FLASH facility and of the European XFEL. At the same time, international collaboration and training will play a central role”.

The actors at today’s State Press conference in the Hamburg town hall dealing with CFEL, from left to right: Hamburg State Council for Science and Research Dr. Roland Salchow, Prof. Monika Auweter-Kurz, President of the University of Hamburg, and Prof. Albrecht Wagner, Director General of DESY.

Source: DESY-Telegramm