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2026

2026-01-19: SSUO session at MAX IV User Meeting 2026

SSUO held a 25-minute session at the MAX IV User Meeting on the afternoon of Monday 19^thJanuary 2026. We presented highlights from our report, asked for feedback. We would especially like to receive input on where you see SSUO activities could be helpful in the future.

2026-12-15: The next generation of X-ray scientists in Sweden

SSUO has started brainstorming discussions with colleagues and the MAX IV management how to best train the next generation of X-ray scientists. We are committed to developing a roadmap that outlines a series of activities, ranging from online seminars and master classes to summer schools and, ultimately graduate schools, along with the corresponding budget requirements. Such a roadmap can be taken as a basis to discuss with funding agencies and attract resources for the benefit of the whole community. In particular, a streamlined follow-up to the PRISMAS PhD-student program is interesting. SSUO plans to coordinate a task force for writing such a roadmap and welcomes any contribution and even commitments to participate in the task force. Please send input to martin.beye@fysik.su.se.

2025

2025-12-02: Two new national delegates to ESUO

Since 2012 SSUO chairman Derek Logan has been Sweden’s sole national delegate to the European Synchrotron and Free Electron User Organisation and was ESUO Secretary from 2018-2025. Recently the ESUO chair reminded us that Sweden has the right to three national delegates due to the size of the user community. SSUO board members Martin Beye (Stockholm University) and Ute Cappel (Uppsala University) have agreed to take on the role of national delegates for the time being.

2025-11-07: Our report on Needs in Swedish X-ray science is published!

During the latter half of 2024 and the spring of 2025, the SSUO Executive Board worked on a report commissioned by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) on the research landscape around synchrotrons and X-ray free-electron lasers in Sweden. As part of this we carried out a survey of Swedish users and also carried out interviews with key representatives of the user community. The result is now available on Vetenskapsrådet's web page.

A companion report from the Swedish Neutron Scattering Society (SNSS) on Swedish Needs in Neutron Science is also available from Vetenskapsrådet.

2025-11-03: New Swedish delegates in ESUO

According to the statutes of the European Synchrotron and Free Electron User Organisation (ESUO), Sweden has the possibility to have three national delegates due to the size of its user community (over 500 researchers). Since 2012 Derek Logan was the sole Swedish delegate, but in November 2025 he was joined by Martin Beye and Ute Cappel from the SSUO Executive Board. Derek has been on the ESUO Executive Board since 2017 and was ESUO Secretary from 2022-2025 but will step down from this role at the next ESUO General Assembly on 1-2 December.

2024

2024-04-11: Constitutive board meeting

2024-01-15: New SSUO board elected

On the first day of the 2024 MAX IV user meeting, the assembly elected a new five-person board for SSUO consisting of Derek Logan (Lund University, chair), Martin Beye (Stockholm University), Ute Cappel (Uppsala University), Martin Magnuson (Linköping University) and Pål Stenmark (Stockholm University). See the "Board" page for more details. The new board looks forward to working together with Swedish users and with its sister organisation FASM, the MAX IV user organisation.