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Inna Vishik, 2023 Users’ Executive Committee Chair

Inna Vishik began using synchrotrons in graduate school and conducts even more synchrotron research as a professor. As chair of the UEC, she is working to enhance accessibility to this facility—and has suggestions for fun things to do after beamtime, too! Read more »

New UEC Members for 2023

Welcome to Aidan Coffey, Whitney Loo, Alexander Baker, Tamas Varga, Leonid Sheps, Sophie Morley, and Devin Grabner. Thank you to Rourav Basak, Yingge Du, Stephanie Gilbert Corder, Eric Meshot, Hope Michelsen, Matthijs van Spronsen, and Johanna Nelson Weker for your service. Read more »

Andrea Taylor, Senior Administrator

As a member of the business administration team, Andrea Taylor is involved in many processes across the ALS—work that draws on her previous roles in hospitality. She has also lent her musical talents to our User Meetings, so be sure to check out the music videos. Read more »

Vote for Your 2023 UEC Representatives

The Advanced Light Source Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) invites you to participate in the election of six new UEC members to represent the ALS community. The new members will take office for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2023. View candidate statements and submit your votes by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, December 1. Read more »

Azzuliani Supangat, 2022 LAAAMP Fellow

A professor at the Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Supangat is interested in organic semiconductors. She and her student, Syaza Hisamuddin, are spending two months at the ALS working with Staff Scientist Chenhui Zhu. Read more »

UEC Nominations Due October 28

The Advanced Light Source Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) invites nominations for its upcoming election for five new UEC members (2023–2025 term). Nominations will be accepted through Friday, October 28, 2022. Membership in the ALS UEC shall be open to those users, including students, who are interested in research at the ALS. Read more »

Tracy Mattox, User Services Group Leader

The new user services group leader is coming to the ALS from our neighboring user facility, the Molecular Foundry, where she has been supporting and collaborating with users for 15 years. Outside of the lab, she is a track and field coach, yoga instructor, and children’s book author. Read more »

Beamline 7.3.3 SAXS/WAXS User Forum

We invite you to a user forum on October 11 (12:00–1:00 p.m.) to discuss the closure of the 7.3.3 SAXS/WAXS beamline three years from now, necessitated by the parameters of the upgraded ALS source, and the plans for developing an upgraded beamline at a new source point to better suit the needs of the community. Find more details and submit questions on our Events page. Read more »

August 2022 Message from the UEC

Ming Yi, UEC chair, celebrates a successful User Meeting. This year’s virtual meeting has inspired new ideas for ways to bring science to more people in the future. She encourages the user community to get involved by submitting feedback or even joining the UEC. Keep an eye out for the call for new member nominations. Read more »