French CRG 30 years

The 30 years of French CRGs beamlines were celebrated on Thursday 16th and Friday 17th January, 2025 at the ESRF, in the presence of Gabriele Fioni, Recteur délégué for Higher Education, Research and Innovation for the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes academic region, Jean Daillant, Director of ESRF and representatives of the CEA and CNRS, Anne-Isabelle Étienvre, Director of CEA/DRF and Jean-Pierre Simorre, Deputy Scientific Director of CNRS Chimie. Conferences about past, present and future of the french beamlines followed the ceremony.

The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, has 44 beamlines lines. Several so-called bending-magnet (BM) beamlines at the ESRF are operated independently by Collaborating Research Groups (CRGs) who design, construct and operate their own beamlines. 5 of these CRGs are funded by France and known as F-CRG (French-CRG) beamlines.

Since 1994, these 5 French beamlines have covered a wide range of scientific fields, such as the physics and chemistry of materials and surfaces, the atomic structure of biological macromolecules, catalysis, earth and environmental sciences...

• To know more about the event, please consult the Scientific program and the press kit (in french only).
• Learn more about the F-CRG (in french only).
• About the BM07-FIP2 beamline :
  The IBS operates the CRG FIP2 beamline, dedicated to macromolecular and physico-chemical crystallography. This beamline, as the other french beamlines*, is open to scientists from all over the world via a proposal submission and peer review process. Every year, over 500 scientists use the F-CRG to conduct more than 180 experiments. This research contributes to numerous scientific advances in fields such as medicine, the environment, chemistry, physics and energy.
  
  

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* CRG-F beamlines and their main applications:
– D2AM: Anomalous Diffraction/Scattering for Materials Science (study of the structure and properties of solid materials and soft matter),
– IF: Diffraction/diffusion, surfaces and interfaces (study of material surfaces and interfaces)
– FIP2: Macromolecular and physico-chemical crystallography (structural and mechanistic studies of proteins, biological macromolecules, and molecules derived from chemical synthesis),
– FAME: Absorption spectroscopy for materials, earth and environmental sciences (geochemistry of polluted soils, hydrothermalism, catalysis, doped materials, etc.),
– FAME-UHD: Absorption spectroscopy of trace elements (in their natural state in soils, at physiological concentration in cells, under real conditions of use, etc.).