Dahlia An and Alyssa Brand were recognized for their collaborative approach that allows users to conduct complex science in a safe manner. Read more »
Updates & Announcements
QERLIN Imaging RIXS Team Receives 2026 Klaus Halbach Award
The team was recognized for their pioneering instrumentation design, innovative optical engineering, and advanced detector integration at the QERLIN Imaging RIXS endstation. Read more »
Greg Su Receives 2026 Early Career Award
Greg Su, a staff scientist at the Advanced Light Source (ALS), is the 2026 winner of the Early Career Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement at the ALS. His selection by members of the ALS Users’ Executive Committee (UEC) recognizes his transformative contributions to soft material characterization through pioneering developments in resonant X-ray spectroscopy and scattering at the ALS. Read more »
Musahid Ahmed Receives 2026 David A. Shirley Award
Musahid Ahmed received the 2026 Shirley Award for building the ALS’s chemical dynamics beamline into a global model for studying how chemical reactions unfold and for mentoring the scientists who carried his ideas worldwide. Read more »
Two ALS Scientists Elected Fellows of the American Physical Society
Sujoy Roy and Cheng Wang, scientists at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS), have been elected 2026 Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS). Read more »
Accelerator Team Receives DOE Genesis Mission Phase II Funding
DOE’s Genesis Mission awarded Phase II funding to Berkeley Lab’s Multi-Office Accelerator Team (MOAT) to expand its Super Intelligence assistant, first launched at the ALS, helping optimize our facility during ALS-U for thousands of researchers. Read more »
The ALS Launches New AI Research Campaigns
ARC is a pilot program for 2027 beamtime designed to advance high-impact user science through the practical development, testing, and refinement of artificial intelligence (AI) workflows across ALS beamlines. This is a special, off-cycle proposal call that is separate from our general user proposal call. Pre-proposals are open until September 27. Read more »
Deadline for General User Proposals is September 2
The User Office is accepting new General User Proposals (GUPs) and beamtime requests (BTRs) on existing GUPs. The deadline for submissions is September 2, 2026. Please read the upcoming schedule information closely and contact alsproposals.lbl.gov with any questions.
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In Memoriam: Jim Underwood, Retired Berkeley Lab Physicist
We are saddened to report the passing of Jim Underwood, who made many significant contributions to the early days of the Advanced Light Source and the Center for X-ray Optics. Read more »
ALS Fellowship Application Window Opens in September
Applications for fellowships to start in winter or spring 2027 will be accepted from September 8–October 2. Fellows will spend up to a year in residence at the ALS pursuing research projects in teams that include staff and the user community, and will be exposed to current scientific challenges that advanced synchrotron radiation tools can tackle. Read more »
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