PKU Professor Qin Qing Appointed Director of Accelerator and Source Division of the ESRF
Nov 04, 2020
Peking University, November 4, 2020: The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) officially announced that Qin Qing, Boya distinguished professor of the School of Physics at Peking University, was appointed the new director of the Accelerator and Source Division (ASD) of ESRF for a five-year term, beginning on November 1, 2020. During this term, he will oversee the operation of the ESRF accelerators and insertion devices, including the continued commissioning and preventive maintenance program of the EBS storage ring and its future development.
Professor Qin Qing
“We’re thrilled to have a new leader joining the ESRF directors’ team who is taking responsibility for the core ESRF activity of producing brilliant and coherent X-rays,” says Francesco Sette, the ESRF director-general. “This is a special time for the ESRF, in which we will consolidate the results of 10 years of upgrades, and enable a powerful scientific exploitation of the ESRF source by our users. With his experience, Qing will make a strong leader for ASD to get the best out of our new Extremely Brilliant Source. Qing – welcome on board!”
During his 30-year career, Qin has worked as a full-time professor at Peking University and at the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), as well as on the machine advisory committee of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). He has participated in the operation and upgrading of the Beijing Electron-Positron Collider (BEPC) and led the commissioning, operation, compliance, and use of the improved BEPC (BEPCII) as a synchrotron radiation light source. He also led the conceptual design of the Future Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC) and led the preliminary research, design, and project startup of China's first High Energy Photon Source (HEPS). This time, as the new director of ASD, he is the first scientist in China and even in Asian countries to serve as a senior manager of large accelerator laboratories in Europe and the United States.
The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF)
The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), located in the southeast city of Grenoble, France, is the first synchrotron radiation facility in the world to be transformed from the third-generation synchrotron radiation accelerator to the fourth generation synchrotron radiation source with the highest brightness in the world.
Written by: Cherlin Xu
Edited by: Zhou Yijing
Source: PKU News (Chinese), ESRF
