- Danscatt is an instrument centre for the Danish users of synchrotron- and neutron-sources as well as free-electron X-ray lasers. It provides funding for travels to experiments and provides advice for new users. It supports the Danish memberships in ESS, E-XFEL, ESRF and ILL, as well as strategic collaborations with PSI and MAX IV. DANSCATT is supported by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation.
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ESUO REPRESENTATIVE
Technical University of Denmark
Department of Physics
Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
PROFILE
Martin Meedom Nielsen studied at Aarhus University and was awarded a Ph.D. in Physics in 1996 on the adsorption of alkali metals on metal surfaces. After a post doc in Germany, he came to Risø National laboratory in Denmark to work on X-ray studies of organic electronics. He was awarded the Rene Descartes prize by the European Commission for the work, which included demonstrating the structure-property relationship in organic electronic devices. In 2005 He took up a professorship at University of Copenhagen to head Molecular Movies, a center of excellence under the Danish National Research Foundation, which established Danish science at XFEL facilities. He was part of the world’s first hard x-ray experiments at an x-ray free electron laser, at LCLS SLAC, Stanford. In 2012 he joined the Danish Technical University as professor in x-ray physics, as founding head of the new section for Neutrons and X-rays for Material Physics at DTU Physics. In 2014, he was appointed chair of the Council of the European XFEL, and after serving the maximum 2 turns of 2 years he continues as vice chair.
USER REPRESENTATION – DANSCATT
DanScatt is an instrument center for the Danish users of synchrotron- and neutron-sources as well as free-electron X-ray lasers. It provides funding for travels to experiments and provides advice for new users. It supports the Danish memberships in ESS, E-XFEL, ESRF and ILL, as well as strategic collaborations with PSI and MAX IV. DANSCATT is supported by the Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education.