© EMFL. During the User Meeting in Nottingham, Elena Blundo received the EMFL prize 2024. Jochen Wosnitza, chair of the EMFL prize committee, had the honor of presenting the prize in a traditional small prize ceremony. The EMFL prize was established in 2009 and recognizes outstanding achievements related to research in all disciplines utilizing high magnetic fields. Elena received her PhD in Physics in January 2023 from the Department of Physics of Sapienza University of Rome. Currently, she is a distinguished postdoc fellow at the Walter Schottky Institut, at the Technical University of Munich. The prize recognizes Elena‘s [...]

© EMFL. The EMFL User Meeting 2024 took place at the University of Nottingham on 11 June; after 2017, the second time at this place. The EMFL Board of Directors has chosen this venue to underline the continuing collaboration of the UK community with EMFL, through grant agreements between EPSRC and EMFL as well as with the three host laboratories in France, The Netherlands, and Germany. Prof Amalia Patanè received a separate EPSRC grant for coordinating the UK activities connected to EMFL. She also hosted the meeting. The User Meeting included the EMFL prize ceremony (see below), two scientific [...]

A new transformer, financed by FEDER funds from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and the CNRS, has been installed on the CNRS campus in Grenoble. The Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses, one of the major research infrastructure of the CNRS, is now directly connected to the 225,000 V high voltage grid of RTE (Réseau de Transport d‘Électricité or „Electricity Transmission Network“). With a power of 60 MVA, this transformer now increases the maximum power distributed to our magnets from 24 to 30 MW. Equipped with a new generation of a fast-response voltage regulator, this transformer allows for a better management [...]