Professor Britta Redlich has left her position as director at HFMLFELIX and as a member of the EMFL Board. As of January 1, 2025, she has taken over the prestigious new role as director of the Photon Science division at the Helmholtz Center DESY – Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron – in Hamburg, Germany.
Britta began her research as a postdoc at the German University of Münster, working at the Dutch Free-Electron Laser FELIX – at that time located at the FOM Institute Rijnhuizen near Utrecht – in the area of surface science. As staff scientist and facility manager, she was closely involved in the relocation of the FELIX facility to Radboud University in 2012/2013. She became chair and director of the FELIX laboratory and, in 2023, she also has been appointed as director of HFML and since then has lead the HFML-FELIX laboratory in Nijmegen.
Under her leadership, this laboratory has further put itself on the map nationally and internationally. As director of HFML-FELIX, Britta has been committed to the integration of both laboratories and the acquisition of a healthy operational and financial basis. Bydoing so, she formed a strong foundation for a flourishing research with high-field magnets and infrared/THz free-electron lasers. The proposed decision to establish an NWO institute gives HFML-FELIX a bright future and is the crowning glory of her work. We owe Britta many thanks for the great work for EMFL. We wish her every success in her new role at DESY. As of January 1, 2025, Professor Frank Linde has been appointed interim director of HFML-FELIX. He will also be a member of the Board of Directors of EMFL.
