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  • HZB-magazine lichtblick - the new issue is out!
    News
    31.01.2025
    HZB-magazine lichtblick - the new issue is out!
    In the cover story we introduce Astrid Brandt. She is Head of User Coordination at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. She and her team keep constant track of applications, measurement times and publications of the 1000 guest researchers who come to BESSY II each year.

    She has always been fascinated by science. But she has also never let go of her other passion, which is music.

  • Modernisation of BESSY II+ light source
    News
    11.12.2024
    Modernisation of BESSY II+ light source
    The focus of the User Meeting 2024: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) presents the BESSY II+ upgrade programme.  It enables world-class research at BESSY II to be further expanded and new concepts to be tested with regard to the successor source BESSY III.  

  • "BESSY is of immense importance for Berlin"
    News
    02.09.2024
    "BESSY is of immense importance for Berlin"
    At the end of August, the Senator for Research, Health, and Long-Term Care, Dr Ina Czyborra, together with the State Secretary for Science, Dr Henry Marx, ended her summer tour with a visit to HZB in Adlershof. She publicly declared her political support for the new construction of BESSY III.