Wuhan, capital city of Hubei province in the People‘s Republic of China, was the first urban center worldwide to get hit hard by the Corona pandemic. Now, months later, the situation on site is slowly getting back to normal. On April 8, 2020, the Wuhan lockdown officially ended. Meanwhile, the focus of attention in the fight against the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is shifting to other parts of the world, noticed by Wuhan‘s population with genuine concern. Trying to alleviate the impact of the Corona pandemic in other parts of the world, especially in the segment where it has [...]

Photo (©) HZDR André Wirsig Prof. Sebastian M. Schmidt took the reigns as scientific director of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) on April 1, 2020. He came from the Forschungszentrum Jülich, where he was a member of the Executive Board and has been responsible since November 2007 for the research areas „Matter“ and „Key Technologies / Information“. After fourteen years of service to the HZDR, Prof. Roland Sauerbrey is retiring as scientific director and member of the EMFL Council. From one of the largest research centers in western Germany to one of the largest research centers in eastern Germany: [...]

Together with partners the three European Magnetic Field Laboratories, joined in EMFL, have been awarded two EU Horizon 2020 grants: one to develop all-superconducting user magnets beyond 40 Tesla (2.9 M€), and one to expand EMFL’s industrial and user community (4.9 M€). With these grants, EMFL will strengthen its long-term sustainability and invest in the design of beyond-state-of-the-art magnets. Some recent advances open the way for the implementation of fully superconducting magnets, combining low- and high-temperature superconductor (HTS) technology for the magnets at the EMFL facilities. These magnets will partly replace current high-field resistive magnets in the future, [...]