The Council has expressed its full confidence in Michael Krisch to continue to lead the ESRF Experiments Division together with Gema Martínez-Criado, Director of Research for Condensed Matter and Physical and Material Sciences, and to contribute to the efforts required to capitalise fully on the world-leading performances of the EBS storage ring and suite of beamlines.
Michael is a solid-state physicist with a particular interest in the investigation of the magnetic and electronic structure and dynamics of materials, studies at extremes of pressure and temperature, and X-ray instrumentation.
Michael joined the ESRF in 1988, affiliated with the University of Dortmund. After a year spent abroad at the NSLS, Brookhaven National Laboratory, he returned to the ESRF to participate in the construction and commissioning of beamline ID16 (Inelastic scattering I). In 1996 he became a scientist in charge of the ID28 beamline project (Inelastic scattering II) and in 2013 he took over the responsibility of the Upgrade Programme beamline ID20 (UPBL6). He served as Deputy Group Head of the High Resolution and Resonance Scattering Group from 2002 to 2009, and as Group Head of the Dynamics and Extreme Conditions Group from 2009 to 2015.
Michael was Head of the ESRF Instrument Support and Development Division (ISDD) during the period 2015-2019, leading most successfully the key contribution of the Division to the EBS project. He then joined the Complex Systems and Biomedical Sciences Group in the Experiments Division as ID17 Beamline Responsible. Since 01 March 2023, Michael has fulfilled the role of Director of Research ad interim.
About ESRF
The ESRF is the world-leading source of synchrotron and a centre of excellence for fundamental and innovation-driven research for imaging and studying the structure of matter at the atomic and nanometric scale in all fields of research. Located in Grenoble, the ESRF owes its success to the international co-operation of 22 partner nations, of which 13 are Members and 9 are Scientific Associates. Following on from 20 years of success and scientific excellence, the ESRF launched the ESRF-EBS -Extremely Brilliant Source- project (150M€ over 2015-2022). Centred on rebuilding the ESRF storage ring, EBS will deliver unprecedented source brilliance and coherence (~100x), offering scientists with a powerful new instrument to look even deeper into the structure of materials and living matter. EBS also includes the construction of new state-of-the-art beamlines, a scientific instrumentation programme with ambitious detector projects and a data management and analysis strategy.
The Council has expressed its full confidence in Michael Krisch to continue to lead the ESRF Experiments Division together with Gema Martínez-Criado, Director of Research for Condensed Matter and Physical and Material Sciences, and to contribute to the efforts required to capitalise fully on the world-leading performances of the EBS storage ring and suite of […]
