ESS reaches 100 employees in the new Headquarters
The European Spallation Source Programme is growing fast and today welcomes the 100th employee in the new Headquarter building.
ESS will be the world-leading science facility for materials and life science research with neutrons. The ESS Programme is now in a design and build-up phase, with a fast growing and expanding organisation. This Monday, the ESS staff has moved into the new Headquarters in Medicon Village.
As a sign of the expanding programme, ESS today reaches one hundred employees. In fact, employee number one hundred are two: procurement officer Tom Hadfield and RF systems engineer Anders Sunesson, who both start working at ESS today.
- Having led the ESS project from 2007, when we were four persons in one room, I am particularly proud over the number of highly skilled staff from all over the world, which we have recruited. Our employees and their expertise is, by far, the most valuable resource we have, says Colin Carlile, ESS Director-General.
Anders Sunesson will be in charge of systems integration of the ESS RF systems, which will drive the proton accelerator. He has earlier been a senior manager for innovative antenna technology within the mobile phone sector, and he is also an Associate Professor in Electro- and Information Technology at Lund Technical University. Tom Hadfield will be a procurement officer within the ESS Administration, previously being a Global category manager for devices at AstraZeneca.
Besides the one hundred permanently employed staff, around 50 temporarily employed scholars, affiliated scientists, PhD:s and consultants are also working full or part time at the ESS Headquarters in Lund, making the total number of staff in the range of 150. In addition, within the ESS Design Update collaborations, involving 40 partner laboratories, universities and research institutes around the world, a couple of hundred scientists are working on updating the technical design of the ESS facility.
For more information, please contact:
Colin Carlile, ESS Director-General. E-mail colin.carlile@esss.se, Tel. +46 46 888 30 33
Marianne Ekdahl, Communications Officer Press & Politics. E-mail marianne.ekdahl@esss.se, Tel. +46 46 888 30 66
ESS IN SHORT:
The European Spallation Source – the next generation facility for materials research and life science
The European Spallation Source (ESS) will be a multi-disciplinary research laboratory based on the world’s most powerful neutron source. ESS can be likened to a large microscope, where neutrons are used instead of light to study materials – ranging from polymers and pharmaceuticals to membranes and molecules – to gain knowledge about their structure and function. ESS will be up to 100 times better than existing facilities, opening up new possibilities for researchers in for example health, environment, climate, energy, transport sciences and cultural heritage.
ESS is an intergovernmental research infrastructure project, and it will be built in Lund in southern Scandinavia. At least 17 European countries will take part in the construction, financing and operation of the ESS. Sweden and Denmark will co-host the ESS and cover 50 percent of the 1,4 B€ investment costs and 20 percent of the operating costs together with the Nordic and Baltic states.
The European Spallation Source ESS AB is a public limited company, today owned by the Swedish and the Danish states. ESS AB is currently working on finalizing the ESS technical design, planning the future research at ESS, preparing for construction, and planning the future international ESS organisation. This is done in collaboration with a large number of international research institutes and laboratories. Construction is expected to start in 2013, the first neutrons to be produced in 2019 and the facility to be fully operational around 2025.
ESS is expected to support a user community of at least 5000 European researchers and will have great strategic importance for the development of the European Research Area. Near by there will be complementary laboratories, such as the synchrotron MAX IV in Lund and XFEL and PETRAIII in Hamburg.
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