Since January 1, 2021, there have been some changes in the composition of the EMFL Board of Directors (BoD). Geert Rikken has stepped down as director of LNCMI and is succeeded by Charles Simon, who will join the EMFL BoD. Peter Christianen, director of HFML, fills the BoD chair position. Changes in the EMFL board do occur more regularly, as the chair position rotates every 2 years, but with Geert Rikken stepping down, a period ends. Geert is one of the founders of EMFL and has been involved in the European collaboration of the high magnetic field facilities from [...]

EMFL is a member of the Analytical Research Infrastructures of Europe (ARIEs) consortium. The ARIEs are centers of scientific and technological excellence, delivering services, data, and expertise to a growing and diverse user community of more than 40,000 researchers in academia and industry, across a range of domains: the physical sciences, energy, engineering, the environment and the earth sciences, as well as medicine, health, food, and cultural heritage. They include powerful photon sources, such as synchrotrons, laser systems and free-electron lasers; sources of neutrons, ions, and other beams; and facilities dedicated to advanced electron microscopy and high magnetic fields. [...]

Photo © Zhe Wang Due to the Corona pandemic, this year´s EMFL award ceremony took place less festive as usual. This time, Dr. Zhe Wang, junior group leader at the University of Cologne, had the honor to receive the prize. Due to the unusual circumstances, Jochen Wosnitza, Director of the Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory and chair of the prize committee, was forced to hand over the award via mail. Dr. Zhe Wang received the award for his pioneering work in the field of quantum magnetism, in particular for the experimental detection of Bethe strings using terahertz spectroscopy [...]